This painting is a landscape of memory: the waiting time before giving birth to my first child. It is hopes and dreams for the future contained within my growing belly at my favourite place: the beach. The sky’s the limit; the sky is my dreams. Water is a metaphor for events and emotions in my paintings‚ including the amniotic fluid surrounding the baby‚ protecting and entombing it until it utters its first cries in the outside world. The ocean on a calm day‚ peaceful and tranquil before the waters build into the raging storm of labour and childbirth‚ as well as the ebb and flow of the tide as the baby grew within me…