11 Flown the nest

Flown the nest
Bronze 2016

First shown in Altered Spaces, an exhibition in 2016 at what used to be called the Peter Pears Gallery in Aldeburgh. I made this little bronze in response to my children leaving home to go to University. On the one hand I felt excited for them, it was their time to go and explore the world. I had done my job bringing them up. On the other hand I felt a real sense of loss, the house was so quite! An empty nest.