Archibald Prize winner Del Kathryn Barton’s self-portrait depicts her with her son and daughter, Kell and Arella.
“This painting celebrates the love I have for my two children and how my relationship with them has radically informed and indeed transformed my understanding of who I am,” she says.
“The title of the work – you are what is most beautiful about me – alludes to that utterly profound ‘in-loveness’ that all mothers have for their children. Both my children have taken my world by storm and very little compares to the devotion I feel for them both. The intensity of this emotion is not something that I could have prepared myself for. The alchemy of life offered forth from my inhabitable woman's body is perhaps the greatest gift of my life.”
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fathers feel this too! (in a different way, perhaps, but it is not the sole domain of mothers to feel this 'in loveness')
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