Happy, grateful, honoured, humbled to win the Kennedy Art Prize 2025 with my painting ‘The Jigsaw’.
It’s a personally significant work for me as it includes some of my family history. I’m so happy that it resonated with the judges.
Artist statement:
‘This work depicts my mother Diana doing a jigsaw with my son Sam. The mis-matched pieces show Diana’s father (killed WW2), mother and brother Richard. The toddler siblings were separated after the war and never met again.
Four generations are represented here. The painting is, in a sense, a family portrait.
As with memories, the jigsaw is incomplete. But as Diana talks with her grandson Sam, passing on family stories, there is a beautiful sense of closure’
Thanks to the Kennedy Foundation for their support of artists, which is so much appreciated.
