This is a mixed media piece I created when exploring my feelings around the removal of my fallopian tube and discovering I could no longer conceive children naturally.

I was 26 at the time (39 now) after the operation there was no support or offer of counselling, the world of infertility was overwhelming. When discussing my infertility with a doctor some weeks later he referred to my still ovulating eggs as falling into an empty cavity.

Those words have never left me. So bleak a phrase. I almost want to catch them, keep them safe, break their fall as they were my eggs my unborn children after all. How could I save them from this dark abyss. So I created a new place with this piece and to help me heal. It has taken all this time but now through my art I have created a new place for my eggs to fall, no longer an empty cavity, but a new found peace of happiness and acceptance. A bed of daisies a symbol of comfort.

I may never be a mother but as a woman my life still has meaning and plenty of life. I will forever be grateful that I have my art, my legacy. I no longer think of what could have been but only now of what will be .

Sausageface by Keeley Robinson