THE INNER FRAME NARRATIVES

Patricia

I had plans, as soon as my son graduated from high school and move out, I would dedicate my life to art …

I’m not interested in graduating …I’m interested in learning …I’ve actually been doing art for a long time … but now it is really serious [laughter]

…that’s my doggy …he died … it’s a way of taking my feelings out …getting rid of them … that’s what I consider a therapy for me …I get rid of all my different feelings that I don’t like …

The house is sort of related to him …I found out he was having an affair …so it’s like, that’s her and that’s me

Its like one horse cut in two?

Yeah! [laughter]

And this one is you?

Of course, I am the head! [laughter].

… it’s like you’re coming or going, you just spend the night and your leaving … the folds …I like the feel of it, it has a mysterious feel

…one of the things [he] was saying, was that the paintings I have done of Colombian things are the best … and I think it is because they are my roots

So its like a higher connection?

Yeah, exactly, a connection with the colours, the people, with the ideas.

I think I have gone back in a circle

I started with the body and I went out of it …and now I’m going back to the body …

I realise that is where I start and that is where I am going to finish …

I like the human body, so basically that is my story

This was one of my last ones … It is related to going back to Australia … Its like, don’t look back … just go ahead …

Rosemary

That’s our farm, and that’s the view from our … my kitchen window … and its funny but lately I feel that I just want to go home. But I know I can’t …

That’s just me flying … yes I’m a bird escaping from the farm

… that’s my husband [laughter] …

I had just read a magazine article When Good Men Go Bad … so I took those words

… I have to be careful what I write … He wanted me to agree with everything so I didn’t have a voice … I couldn’t do the models mouth, so I decided to leave them out.

I also got into pottery school … he said ‘no. don’t go there, marry me’ … Basically we had a very happy married life, we have three beautiful daughters, their lovely girls … we’re terribly lucky …

I feel like I’m just a beginner, scratching the surface … when I was [primary] teaching I just got to the stage where I was bored stiff …

I wanted to be doing the stuff I was teaching them … and now I am …I feel totally happy and totally lucky that this place exists …

…because if it didn’t I don’t know what I would have done … it’s actually save my life really.