Helen Sargeant – Maternal Journal
I had a go at the Maternal Journal guides and they are so much fun, I highly recommend you try them out too and they are all FREE to access online.
Maternal Journal Guide
I have created a free downloadable journaling template - "Mark making to capture connection between mother and baby" for the award winning Maternal Journal project produced by artist and midwife Laura Godfrey Isaacs.
She was pregnant: mobile phone drawings
A series of drawings made using my my mobile phone. Playing with ideas and concepts to express a range of feelings in relation to the state of being pregnant.
Mummy’s Tummy
Me and my youngest son Naoise (aged six) played a drawing game in a book. He drew babies in the tummy’s of my mummy’s and I drew babies in the tummy’s of his mummy’s.
MSee
At home time my youngest son Naoise excitedly handed me an orange covered book with “me, mummy” written on the front that he wants to use to draw pictures of “me in my mummy’s tummy when she was pregnant and him in my tummy when I was pregnant.” In this video Naosie can be seen drawing me developing inside my...
Birth: Party Surprise
Birth: Party Surprise (2013) are a series of pencil and ink drawings that use public images of You Tube birth videos together with my personal experiences of giving birth.
Birth: icon drawings
This series of ink and pencil drawings have been created through making observational drawings from youtube birth videos, and in referencing the birth records of my two sons, remembering the physical and emotional experiences of birth and referencing historical anatomy sketches.
Birth: separation sketches
Colour sketches exploring the mental and physical separation of baby from the mothers body at birth.
October babies
A series of drawings exploring a photograph of my first born son taken shortly after his birth.
September babies
A series of observational drawings made from a photograph taken shortly after the birth of my first child.
hand holding-standing-hugging
"A series of observational drawings from a mothers perspective exploring the intimate relationship that she holds with her child."