Seek (Sapphire)
Digital Drawing
Femessence Series – Vulva Art for radical self acceptance
2021
A collective journey of radical self acceptance, worth & opportunity to receive adoration.
My intention for this series of work is for increased embodiment and spiritual awareness. It’s an opportunity for women to see, appreciate, accept, and approve of themselves, and realise their power and ability to create (magic, life, relationships, art).
Whilst the subject matter has evoked reactions and conversations around culture, gender specific values, experiences and opinions, this is not intended to be political or gendered. More of a self appreciation and acknowledgement of the spiritual and creative power of the feminine essence. Hence – “Femessence”
Acknowledging women’s sacred space and building a relationship with our bodies is a process which can bring you back into alignment and understanding. Simply, I believe we are created to create. By acknowledging our creative centres and power as females, this is a step towards creating the life we desire.
The artwork created is not mine; it’s the beauty of others represented on paper. It was a co-creation and I thank and appreciate every one of the participants in this series; for their grace, beauty, vulnerability and bravery.
As an arts therapist it’s not about the end piece entirely, it’s about the process of making the art and the beauty of the journey behind the piece – from the photography, to the conversations, to the displaying of the final pieces and emotions that occur, and the gifts that are exchanged after the work is “complete”. It’s a forever evolving experience – the start of a new intersubjective relationship.
Thank you to all for joining the experience and being a part of the creative process.

Model’s Testimony:
Ooooh I love them ?? I now feel about my vagina that she is so pretty and ripe and juicy and full of flavour and colour and is as beautiful and unique as a flower ?
So that’s pretty great!! Considering I first wanted to call her chub chubs only a few weeks ago ?
Before I felt embarrassed, squeamish, shame, worried about whether mine looked ‘right’ or was the right shape, I felt silly and giggly and resorted back to being a teenager going through puberty, feeling awkward and embarrassed and unsure of myself ~ now I feel like it’s been a real rites of passage process, like the conversations and opening up of feelings that I never had the words or space to express…it was like reliving that teenage time as an adult and being able to do it properly.
Learning that all vaginas are different, that every single one is beautiful and so perfectly unique in its own way. That we’ve been conditioned with so many degrading things about our vaginas that it’s no wonder so much shame and shyness is carried there. I now feel like a woman, with my own beautiful flower that I feel more appreciation, love and respect for! And a new sense of love and comfort between friends by going through the process and having those conversations you so need as a young woman but rarely get to have. ☺️ It’s been a really beautiful and healing process ~ has surprised me how much it has lifted and shifted things
