It's finally here a collection I've put my whole heart into. When filming The Outstanding Artist it brought a lot of emotion out that I didn't know I have and honestly I'm still trying to understand why and where it stems from.
I've had a lot of really tough times in my life, the biggest being loosing my mum at a young age and I've always had to pick myself up off the floor to build again.
I felt like life is out to get me, that I'm being punished for something but I think that its life testing us, making you stronger and teaching you resilience.
We wouldn't be who we are without these challenges and life experiences today.
This collection has a lot to do with that, resilience. We need resilience. We have to take those moments and those challenges by the hand and grow. Spread your wings and fly.
I have decided to write a poem with each painting and I asked my dad to write one as well to see how they make him feel as we all experience paintings differently.
'We may be small,
but we are resilient.
A beautiful world
so vast,
we lose ourselves among the daisies.
Cold waters pull us off course,
angry elements rise,
but we take each other’s hand,
we lift one another up.
Life is full of rapids,
yet calm waters still sparkle
like diamonds in the sun.
The shadows may frighten us,
but colourful moments
are waiting'
By Eleanor Birch
'Oh you pretty things, don't you know your driving your mother and father insane.
Like the song you touch our hearts tho' it is anything but an easy start.
Like a swarm of water bees here and there
You catch our eye our smiles to share
Day by day you become fewer and fewer
As you struggle against life's cruel river
Your watery world is no garden of Eden
So many sacrificed to feed the heathen
For you all the nightmares came today
And it looks like they are here to stay
Of course let our hearts leap at nature's renewal
But flip her coin and know she can be so cruel'
By Ian Birch
