Thank You For Your Feedback - Christine Olmstead

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To the women who showed up. My audience is mostly

To the women who showed up. My audience is mostly women. Women between the ages of 25 and 65. Women who are mothers, grandmothers, writers, artists, bakers, women who are showing up and creating beauty in their own corners of the world.

I want to thank a few women who showed up for me again and again over the past year. There have been several women who are a bit older than me, a couple of them are my friend’s mothers, a couple are artists who are much further along in their careers. Elissa, Alice, Lundi, Yetta, Liv, and Carol just to name a few. These women showed up for me when I wasn’t showing up.

When I got pregnant I was debilitated by it. I found out I was pregnant at two and a half weeks. I knew pregnancy would be hard, but even in my wildest dreams I could not imagine the depths of how horrible I would feel every second of the day and night. In comparison to labor – pregnancy was torture. I would go through labor and give birth 100 times if I could avoid the nine months of pregnancy. When I got pregnant I started to retreat. I wasn’t showing up online in this space of wonderful people I’ve collected over the years. It was simply too overwhelming.

Even when I wasn’t posting, when I stopped making art and content and stopped investing in this community – there were a few women who noticed and reached out regularly. Every day or every week I’d get funny, sweet, beautiful, encouraging messages, voice notes, reels and more. Sometimes we talked but mostly their messages made me feel less alone, they made me feel seen even when I was isolating myself. I don’t know if they could sense my pain and took compassion on me, or if their own beautiful lives couldn’t help but bubbling over and spilling into mine, but I hope they know how much their message meant to me. I don’t think it can be understated how kind, generous, insightful, sweet and good these women are. I’m thankful to know them and strive to be like them. #women #artistatwork #womenwhowork #mother #doitfortheprocess

More piercings from Momma - 48”x72”, Baby - 12

More piercings from Momma - 48”x72”, Baby - 12”x12”, and Together - 24”x24”

Whether your children are here, whether they are grown, whether you’ve lost a child, or whether you’re just beginning your journey like me – motherhood pierces us and leaves us altered. So too with these works I wish to convey the gravity, the honor, the beauty, the pleasure of motherhood, while also depicting the way it binds us for life, and changes us forever. It is a beautiful honor and it is heavy.

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#doitfortheprocess #artistatwork #momma #motherhoodart

✨These are some of the first works in my series

✨These are some of the first works in my series on motherhood. All of these paintings have been made with my baby on my lap or her strapped to my chest or back.

I know many mothers feel as I do that having a baby is a privilege, a joy, an endless stream of thankfulness and delight spending time with your baby. Yet at the same time it can be stressful. You can’t do the things or the work you love. Your time is truncated and sliced and diced into five or ten minute increments. The ability to sit down and focus on a task uninterrupted is bygone luxury.

The tension between love and exhaustion from constant caregiving is where many mothers live.
These paintings are pierced paintings and though shown chained together they are sold as individual works. Each painting is pierced with acrylic gilded chains symbolizing the irrevocable nature of motherhood. It is beautiful, it is a treasured honor, but it is heavy, and it is forever.

Whether your children are here, whether they are grown, whether you’ve lost a child, or whether you’re just beginning your journey like me – motherhood pierces us and leaves us altered. So too with these works I wish to convey the gravity, the honor, the beauty, the pleasure of motherhood, while also depicting the way it binds us for life, and changes us forever.

These paintings are mixed media on canvas with custom acrylic gilded chain piercings. To inquire about these paintings please dm or email info@christineolmstead.com

Stay sweet ✌️
#motherhood #artistatwork #momlifestyle #doitfortheprocess

New work coming to email list subscribers on Monda

New work coming to email list subscribers on Monday July 22. Works are paintings/sculptures combined. Stay sweet ✌️✨

The new studio assistant is napping next to me whi

The new studio assistant is napping next to me while I paint this morning. We are listening to moon river and when she wakes up we are going to talk about colors. #studioscenes #motheratwork #doitfortheprocess

🙂‍↔️Pierced ✨ Studio scenes lately ft.

🙂‍↔️Pierced ✨ Studio scenes lately ft. Babe and babe. #studioscenes #artistatwork #paintyourheartout