Series:

New Beginnings

“I felt I had given birth to more than a baby: to new life in myself…I could not imagine the baby would do this for me, but I felt life given back to me–a door to life opened. I wanted to live, I felt power to live… a spell had been broken, the spell over us that made me dread everything and feel that nothing would go right after this. The spell was broken by this real, tangible, perfect baby, coming into an imperfect world and coming out of the teeth of sorrow – a miracle.” — Anne Morrow Lindberg

“Indifferent to the outside world, mother and child exist in a cocoon, engulfed by each other’s presence. Here the artist’s rough, expressionistic stroke and intuitive use of color again serve her well, creating an immediate and almost tactile image of the intimacy between mother and child… This interior way of looking at the mother and child through the mother’s eyes stands in stark contrast to conventional male depictions of the subject, which objectify mother and child by observing them from the outside. In Redman’s drawings, the spectator views as the mother, rather than gazing at her.” — Michelle Vangen, Bridging the Artist/Mother Divide: The Maternal Imagery of Helen Redman, 2009

IN THIS SERIES: