The Women's changing room
My childhood memories were all in the men’s swimming pool changing rooms as I went with my father and brother and I was extremely shy. And I remember being looked at a lot by these men as I was a very tall girl, even at 9 years of age.
But it was the women’s changing room that scared me the most, because it was yellow.
Yellow has been used for years to signal mental illness, madness and hysteria in books such as The Yellow Wallpaper, or in films such as Rosemary’s Baby etc.
So here, I am reclaiming back that colour. for all the women who were doomed by it.
It’s an almost unfinished painting too, in that parts of the painting are watercolour whilst most is acrylic. The watercolour painted rose is the delicateness of life, of a woman’s body, of the so much more than she is.
This is a story behind the painting, but this painting offers a lot more interpretation, and it’s a lovely painting from the very day life, and viewpoint of a child in awe of the women’s changing room.
My childhood memories were all in the men’s swimming pool changing rooms as I went with my father and brother and I was extremely shy. And I remember being looked at a lot by these men as I was a very tall girl, even at 9 years of age.
But it was the women’s changing room that scared me the most, because it was yellow.
Yellow has been used for years to signal mental illness, madness and hysteria in books such as The Yellow Wallpaper, or in films such as Rosemary’s Baby etc.
So here, I am reclaiming back that colour. for all the women who were doomed by it.
It’s an almost unfinished painting too, in that parts of the painting are watercolour whilst most is acrylic. The watercolour painted rose is the delicateness of life, of a woman’s body, of the so much more than she is.
This is a story behind the painting, but this painting offers a lot more interpretation, and it’s a lovely painting from the very day life, and viewpoint of a child in awe of the women’s changing room.
My childhood memories were all in the men’s swimming pool changing rooms as I went with my father and brother and I was extremely shy. And I remember being looked at a lot by these men as I was a very tall girl, even at 9 years of age.
But it was the women’s changing room that scared me the most, because it was yellow.
Yellow has been used for years to signal mental illness, madness and hysteria in books such as The Yellow Wallpaper, or in films such as Rosemary’s Baby etc.
So here, I am reclaiming back that colour. for all the women who were doomed by it.
It’s an almost unfinished painting too, in that parts of the painting are watercolour whilst most is acrylic. The watercolour painted rose is the delicateness of life, of a woman’s body, of the so much more than she is.
This is a story behind the painting, but this painting offers a lot more interpretation, and it’s a lovely painting from the very day life, and viewpoint of a child in awe of the women’s changing room.