The title of these portraits is “Seen and not Heard”, to pay homage to the women who had a voice and opinions to share through art, but were silenced because they were women.

My intention in this assignment was to portray a female renaissance woman who, because of her gender, is constrained and forced to be the subject of a man’s work instead of her own. 

In order to be seen in the art world, she has to be under the name, or arm of a man. I am very lucky to have been born in the time I was, when women can express and be taken seriously as artists. 

When I can come up with an idea and be supported enough to watch that idea come to life. 

In the final photographs, she is painting herself.