Artist: Ashley Hoth
Medium: Oil on Panel
Titles:
Little but Loved, 4 Weeks
Little but Loved, 5 Weeks
Little but Loved, 6 Weeks
Little but Loved, 7 Weeks
Little but Loved, 8 Weeks
When I Don't Stay Between the Lines
When I Make Room for My Whole Self
When I am Allowed to Question
When I am Free to Wonder
When I Let My Ideas Take Up Space
About the Artwork:
This series started as an act of courage and presence. My husband and I suffer from recurrent pregnancy loss due to my chromosomal abnormalities and when we found out we were pregnant again over two years ago, I knew how likely we were to loose the baby. But at that moment, baby was with me. Baby was little, but loved. I wanted to honor that, so I painted a poppy seed. That’s how small she was. The next week, baby was the size of an apple seed, so I painted that, and she was still with us. Amazingly our baby kept growing, and we named her Lucy Kay (because when you add a “K” to Lucy, it spells Lucky.) But we had many babies that stayed small, babies didn’t grow much bigger than a raspberry, or blueberry, so I’m keeping this first painting, to honor those little ones we lost, and I re-painted it and added a few more weeks for any other parents out there who might want to have something that honors a sweet baby who stayed so little, but was so loved.
About the Artist:
Ashley lives deep on the woods of Washington State with her husband and three young children. She studied Recreational Therapy at BYU and loves to paint, be outside, build forts, and sort out her thoughts and experiences through art.
