All My Friends Are Here 2022

Following on from my last series of paintings, ‘Born’, I decided to continue with the theme of nature.  I learnt that some American Red Indian tribes call trees the ‘Standing People’ and I loved the personification of trees and symbolism in nature.  I am a music lover and fan of Joe Satriani’s instrumental guitar music.  He brought out an album in 2020 called ‘Shapeshifting’ which my husband and I played three times over as soon as we got it!  One of the tracks was called ‘All My Friends Are Here’.  I thought of standing in a forest surrounded by trees.  This inspired my next series of artworks.