Becoming Her — Digital Art Print

This is my youngest daughter, painted life-size, at eleven years old, right on the edge of everything.

She's confident. She knows who she is in that particular, unselfconscious way children do before the world starts asking them to explain themselves. And yet she is also just so vulnerable, stepping into her almost-teen years with these creature charms swinging from her bag, one foot already somewhere I can't quite follow.

I painted her figure with everything I had, every hour of looking, every year of practice, and let the background stay loose and unresolved, almost chaotic, because that felt like the truth of this moment. She is vivid and clear and real in the middle of something that isn't settled yet. That's what it is to be eleven. That's what it is to watch her.

This painting gives me a special kind of heartache, the way only love can.

What you'll receive A high resolution JPEG file sized for printing up to A3 (420 x 297mm). Print at your local print shop or at home for an instant piece of original New Zealand fine art on your wall.

Please note this is a digital file only. No physical product will be shipped. No permission given to distribute, copy, resell or use for merchandise. For personal use only.