"Mothers and Daughters"
Diana DeMille and Kathreen DeMille

My daughter Kathreen began the adventure with coloured pencil on wood.  In 1993 when she was 14, Kathreen was on the State Board of Directors for Earth Day Arizona.  She said, "Mom, we really need some trash art."  I had no canvas, no paints.  Just the back of her 10 year old dry-erase board and coloured pencils.  The board was 3'x4' masonite.  After two months of drawing on this piece, I enjoyed the process and liked the end result so much that I couldn't bear to glue smashed pop cans on it.  This portrait of my daughter is the "Eve" of this media for me.         Translation?

First Portrait on Wood-1993	Maui Banyan Tree-1996	Kathreen and Mother-1997
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Kathreen's Portrait	Mother and Child	Double Portrait

No matter what the relationship, mothers and daughters have bonded through Time.  I put my daughter through personal hell because my solution to the "insolvable" was to run away.  We all speak in various ways - mine is through my art.  "Mother and Child" is my reaching-out healing portrait to Kathreen. Mothers and daughters are intertwined and their love is like the tree - rooted in the earth and reaching for the unknown heavens.