Crone Series - the paintings

The ancient figure of the Crone once held knowledge of endings, transformation, and deep time.

Then, for over a millennia she has stood outside the light of sanctioned stories, often reduced to two forms: the kindly grandmother or the witch. Her vastness has been largely forgotten.

The Crone has not disappeared, but she has been obscured. Yet she endures. To call upon the Crone is to invoke that which doesn’t flatter or beg permission, whose power is expressed in age.

The Crone appears as deity, seer, healer, wanderer, keeper of memory, trickster, and witness to the long story of the world. She is a destroyer in service of renewal. She governs the necessary ending, the clearing fire, the winter that makes way for spring. In her body, death and rebirth are intimate companions.

The figures in my drawings carry this deep time within them. They rise from a lineage older than the hierarchies that attempted to contain then extinguish them. They stand as witnesses to cycles larger than culture and as old as time.