Tracey-Ann begins her work with an abstract expressive style and then sub-consciously connecting with figures, animals, scenery and concepts to develop the message about our connection with life and our place in it.
Four red roses hold us fast,
Love that roots and will not break,
Faces bloom, then drift away,
From their strength, new forms awake.
In this painting, I let the four red roses lead me—each one holding that sense of steady, enduring love, a quiet promise that nothing will come between what is deeply felt. Their reds and yellows unfold not just as flowers, but as emotions and memories, shaping faces that emerge and dissolve, never quite fixed, as if they’re sharing something unspoken. As I worked, an imagined creature began to form from this convergence—instinctive, alive, and born from the strength beneath the surface. I didn’t plan it; I allowed it to reveal itself through the layers, because for me this work is about how love, identity, and imagination anchor us, giving us something stable even as everything else shifts and transforms.
