Photos of Birth Art Cafe at Holistic Parenting Expo
Weston super Mare, Somerset

My Most Powerful Moment of Birth
Artist: Mother of 5 year old and 7 weeks pregnant
Comment: "Pushing my baby out, I don’t remember my arms. Only my body and legs were giving birth."

Artist: Mother of 1 child and pregnant in 3rd trimester
Comment: "I had to become an animal – wolf like - in order to birth my baby. I birthed my baby through sound and my baby was born into a peaceful environment (blue)"

Birth Power Scultures
Artist: a woman thinking about conceiving
Comment: "I started by feeling the sensation of clay in my hands, with the
overall
idea of creating a birth power sculpture, but no specific idea about
how she
would come out. The process was very magical -rationally i don't know
how
she took form in this beautiful way! She is very concentrated on giving
birth, and receiving her baby with open hands. when i asked her if she
had
anything to say to me at the end, she said "go inwards".

Artist: 3 months pregnant
Comment "I spent a long time rubbing the belly as if to make a home for the baby. This is me in a few months time."

Birth in Our Culture –
Artist: Mother of 4 month old boy
Comment: "People at the head of mother are crowding over her."

Artist: father of 4 month old boy
Comment: "Red circle of of home birth, safe, happy, enclosed. Blue is hospital birth, people look lost, lots of equipment"

Journey Into Motherhood
Artist: Mother of 1 child and 1 to be conceived
Comment: "I am on my journey and am at the point where the colouring stops"

Artist: Mother of 2 thinking about having another

Artist: Mother of 2

Artist: woman thinking of conceiving
Comments: "I feel I am on the outside of the labyrinth."

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