Creating art is often a journey of self-discovery.  I tend to make intuitively with the meaning behind my work unfolding over time, even long after the work has been created.  Sometimes it can take another person to point out something about my work before my own eyes are opened to what I see before me.  Such is the case in this continuation of the Rest series.  While wandering through the Blue Mountains with my family, my husband spotted some mossy, lichen covered rocks and trees and commented how they looked like my vessels.  I hadn’t even made the connection before he mentioned it, I had just been enjoying the beauty of it.  With Rest - Blue Mountains I have taken the motif of the boulder with the moss and lichen as my influence to extend the theme of resting in nature.

Photo credit Fiona Klat