Baby Zoe

I met Baby Zoe and her mom one day I was helping out at the soup kitchen in downtown Brooklyn. I had just been thinking about painting a small baby when this radiant mother and child walked into my sight, I just knew I wanted to paint them.
I invited them to my studio in Brooklyn for a photo shoot. Zoe was 4 months old. Mom and baby were living at the shelter. Mom explained how baby Zoe had been an unexpected miracle and had helped change her lifestyle. Now she had this precious little girl to care for.
I began painting this portrait during the summer of 2023 while we were displaced from our home because of a fire in the neighbors apartment. Unable to make a mess and spread out as I would in my studio I stuck with a restricted palate.

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Born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1975, Price studied Fine Arts at Canterbury University.
A multi-hyphenate artist, internationally accomplished in the realms of Painting, Photography & Music, she spent 15 years living in Paris and speaks fluent French.
Currently rooted in Brooklyn, New York, Price is a mother, wife, and a prolific creator of work. Price’s work has been shown in eminent galleries in Paris, New York and New Zealand.
Known for her use of bright, vibrant colors, bold brush strokes, drips, splatters and chalky lines her art work grabs the viewer and invites them into a world of sacred and magical imagery.
An overarching concern for Mother Nature permeates the work as the artist seeks to awaken viewers to the beauty and genius inherent in the natural world and compel them to act with urgency in face of the current Anthropocene