Marguerite Tierney - Mountain For Elks

Medium: Acrylic and Oil Stick on Canvas

 Framed in a Cashew coloured oak floating frame.

Year:2026

I treated this theme in an intangible sense, where ‘HOME’ was a shift in feeling, personality and creative being.

Three years ago, my husband and I adopted and became parents overnight to our son. Parenthood universally changes us all. ‘Cat with a fish in its mouth’ was my stand alone art style in pre-motherhood. It was who I was. Like we are all who we are before parenthood and then we become something else.  Post becoming a mother I was changed. And so had my art.

At first, when I became a Mother, I could not make art for a year. I was tired,  I was emotional and I was exhausted. I could not create and that  was something that has always carried me through life.  Then things settled as they do and my creative spirit came home. 

However, I came back to my practice and something felt restless. My character led artworks were still there in me  but there was something else as well. A new maturity. ‘Mountain for Elks' I feel reflects this. The art is more mature. Not better in any way, not worse in any way. I didn’t feel at home in just my old style. I wanted to create something new.

 I came home to my practice at last but there are new things I am discovering. 

Artworks have changed. Because I am now changed.