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“My garden is not your business” by Karen Chappelow  44.5x 90cm

Mary, Mary quite contrary how does your garden grow?

With silver bells and cockleshells and pretty maids all in a row.

Sounds like a beautiful garden, dunnit!!

Nursery rhymes often functioned as secret codes within society to tell tales of kings, queens and powerful elites –  without being hung, drawn and quartered.

This one tells of Bloody Mary, daughter of Henry VIII, staunch Catholic and cruel hunter of Protestants. Her growing garden references the ever growing gravestones as she hunted those pesky Protestants. Her ‘tools’ of choice include, Silverbells aka thumbscrews, Cockleshells aka Pear of Anguish

-attached to the genitals and opened, slowly ripping said person part.

Pretty maids refer to a beheading device, an early version of the guillotine.

As I was painting this piece, news from the USA regarding the overturning of the Roe v Wade ruling and the resulting implications for women everywhere occurred. Apart from being outraged and angry at these choices being taken away from a woman and her body, decisions made with religious zealotry, made me stop in my tracks…467 odd years apart and we humans still haven’t got a handle on what it is to be human. Religion is still being used as a weapon. Power, fear and control used in the guise of Christian morals. So this can be viewed as a strong woman in control of her own body, proffering these very utensils of torture to anyone that stands in her way

My garden is not your business!

Karen Chappelow

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“My garden is not your business” by Karen Chappelow  44.5x 90cm

Mary, Mary quite contrary how does your garden grow?

With silver bells and cockleshells and pretty maids all in a row.

Sounds like a beautiful garden, dunnit!!

Nursery rhymes often functioned as secret codes within society to tell tales of kings, queens and powerful elites –  without being hung, drawn and quartered.

This one tells of Bloody Mary, daughter of Henry VIII, staunch Catholic and cruel hunter of Protestants. Her growing garden references the ever growing gravestones as she hunted those pesky Protestants. Her ‘tools’ of choice include, Silverbells aka thumbscrews, Cockleshells aka Pear of Anguish

-attached to the genitals and opened, slowly ripping said person part.

Pretty maids refer to a beheading device, an early version of the guillotine.

As I was painting this piece, news from the USA regarding the overturning of the Roe v Wade ruling and the resulting implications for women everywhere occurred. Apart from being outraged and angry at these choices being taken away from a woman and her body, decisions made with religious zealotry, made me stop in my tracks…467 odd years apart and we humans still haven’t got a handle on what it is to be human. Religion is still being used as a weapon. Power, fear and control used in the guise of Christian morals. So this can be viewed as a strong woman in control of her own body, proffering these very utensils of torture to anyone that stands in her way

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