'Cell division' maternity unit, Conquest Hospital, Hastings Artists statement.
"Whilst working as artist-in-residence in the maternity unit at Buchanan Hospital the area I became most interested in was scan and fertility. This led to studying microbiology photographs of fertilisation. I have concentrated on the point of conception, the momentousness and spirituality of this event. The painting in outpatients depicts the various stages of cell division, like planets in the cosmic soup.

	The piece on level 1 of the Conquest Hospital in the women's unit shows the female ovum, the 1st cell division and the 2nd cell division. In the first shape the nucleus of the cell contains a mango seed, the sperm head which has entered the ovum is shown with a photographic image of sperm. In the second shape the cell has divided into two, in the third shape the two cells have divided into four. The twenty-three chromosomes split into two every time the cells divide so that the same information is contained in each cell. The twenty-three primroses depict the chromosomes in the third shape. The primrose is one of the first flowers of spring, new life. There are photographic images of the 1st and 2nd cell divisions in the second and third shapes." Materials - plywood, gesso, glass and lacquer.