Dreams, Fairy Tales & Nursery Rhymes: Oils/Poems
Baltimore Sun art critic, Glenn McNatt wrote that, “…the theme of motherhood plays a prominent role in Damen’s paintings, which depict surreal, sometimes nightmarish scenes of childhood anxiety that seem to hover just outside the neat categories of fantasy, expressionism or realistic depiction.” I place the narrative of childhood's development within the context of myths,dreams, fairy tales and nursery rhymes which reveal the “rabbit hole” existence that we adults choose to forget or deny.
