Mixed Media on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed on the back.

'Mother', by Aimee Rytenskild, depicts a female figure holding her newborn child. She sits in a field of Australian native flowers, which wrap around and entwine her body. The abstracted hair on the mother/child is reminiscent of tree roots, which alludes to the idea of 'nature', and its connection within mythology to the idea of the feminine.

As a predominantly abstract painter, I have recently been inspired to create more figurative and representational works, as a way to more directly communicate subject matter. This painting is part of a series of a larger series of work that aims to explore the intrinsic relationship between societies associations of femininity and the environment, epitomised by the concept of 'mother nature'.