The Painters Daughter .1999. oil on board. 166 x 51 cm

This painting is part of a collection inspired by her Grandmother
Kathleen Morris who died in 1997. The series was intended to be a
celebration of her life, and recalls Zoes experience as a child
living with her Grandmother the Matriarch of the family. This
painting is based on her Grandmother as a young woman, her gentle
father was a scenic artist, who was to be killed working as a
stretcher bearer in 1917.

The Poets Muse. 2001. oil on board. 61 x 130 cm

The Twin Towers disaster happened at the time she began this group of
paintings, which she calls her Truth and Lies series. In this work
the figure holds a dagger, behind her are written the tender words of
her Poet lover whome she discovers has betrayed her.

Mothers weep, Chechnya. 1996. oil on board. 46 x 61 cm

The war in Yugoslavia is the subject of this work. The young woman
carries a basket of fish on her head, souls gathered to sustain
others, at her waist are some of those sons and fathers lost in the
war. The repeat figure of a woman weeping expresses this repetition
of experience for so many Mothers, Children and Wives.

Children looking at a naked chicken. 2006. oil on card. 25 x 33 cm.

This painting is about the progress and cost of science . The
invention of a bald or featherless chicken was in an article about
making convenience food more convenient to the farmer and consumer.
Zoe says I wanted to have the children participating in a small
ceremony of some kind, a mock wedding, at school, mimicking adult
behaviour, then I wanted the chicken to pass by, lost and naked. We
dont seem to see what we have in life and how fragile and valuable
it is.

Catching angels. 2005. oil on card. 38 x 26 cm.

From the Fragile lives series

Girl with cat. .2005. oil on card. 23 x 32 cm

From the Fragile lives series