in August 2024, I was artist in residence at Fen Ditton Gallery and was exploring the theme of home after the death of my husband and soulmate of 37 years. During the residency I made some pin hole photographs of my home in Fen Ditton where I have lived for over 40 years. Almost a year later, I am revisiting three images of my studio in my garden where I work as they are relevant to my latest work entitled Transformation. The first one of Nick sitting at the table outside my studio where we used to have breakfast. The second is a self-portrait, sitting alone and the third is of my studio with nobody there, only an obscured, blurry figure. My exploration of home continues after deciding to spend a year in Australia with my family with a view to emigrating and leaving my home in Fen Ditton. During a period of a few months this year of not being able to go about my everyday life because of a short illness followed by a broken arm, I spent a very fruitful enforced “isolation” making new work on the theme of transformation. This new work is very much about “reclaiming and redefining my identity and the tension between public perception and private reality. It is about being patient and allowing the process to take shape. My broken arm becomes a metaphor for a broken wing, finally mending and taking me on my next adventure.