Innocence Becoming of Woman
 
This piece began with innocence.
Not just hers, mine too.
The innocence of a mother watching her daughter grow, not realising how much of herself she’d see in that becoming.
 
I started by creating windows, small worlds of their own, by layering other canvases above this one and letting the paint fall where it wanted to.
The drips became organic frames, imperfect yet intentional.
Inside each square, I drew a different version of her, each a fleeting glimpse of my daughter through my eyes.
 
The centre square was the most detailed, the most present.
But as I rotated the canvas and worked in new mediums, the faces began to shift, some stronger, some softer, some almost disappearing altogether.
It felt like watching time pass.
Each layer of paint and movement became another moment of her life, another version of who she is, and who she’s becoming.
 
When I finished drawing, I began to cover the canvas with colour, spray paints, acrylics, gestures of instinct and emotion.
Slowly, some faces vanished beneath the surface, while others lingered just enough to be seen.
And in that process, I realised: this wasn’t about losing them.
It was about transformation.
 
Innocence Becoming of Woman is about that shift, from purity to presence, from child to woman, from being seen through my eyes to being her own.
It’s about how beauty changes form but never fades.
How innocence isn’t erased, it becomes part of something deeper, stronger, more vibrant.
 
This painting is my reflection of her;
and perhaps, in some ways, of myself.