Colourful, messy sketch of woman with long grey hair and glasses, with an inflamed and red, tongue and cheeks. Blue background and the word WOMAN printed above.

Art desk with open sketchbook showing messy sketch of woman with long grey hair and glasses, wearing headphones with an inflamed and red tongue and cheeks showing. On her forehead, the word, menopause. Blue background with the words, mysterious, moving, fire and burning, inflammation, enigmatic, elusive, communication, shame, erratic

An art journal page with messy blue background, and the words, imbalanced, inflamed, silenced, ashamed, diminished, enlightened, enraged and the date, 12 Nov ‘24 scribbled in capitals, using black crayon filling the entire page.

A flat-lay, overhead shot onto the wooden floor, showing a range of messy, colourful sketches and accompanying words, with sketches of a woman with messy grey hair, sticking out a big red tongue. Some portraits show woman wearing black headphones, others just with her glasses. The words include menopause, woman, shame, imbalanced, inflamed, hormonal, unwell.

Starting with the inexplicable symptoms of #menopause you never knew number 1 million. Not being able to eat or speak due to “burning tongue” #artjournal #nondominanthand #fiveminutesketches