Naomi Wood on Motherhood II

Here are some lovely words from the wonderful Naomi (pictured here in her madder Picos) about her experience of becoming a mother-

“I thought motherhood would feel magical, but it didn’t. On my second night of labour, the clocks went back, signalling the start of winter. And with this abrupt change, I began a new life as a Mother, a structure existing merely to sustain a new life. The cries of my child - naked as the branches of the newly bare trees surrounding our home - came with a shocking violence for which I was entirely unprepared. A primal experience in which my entire being turned into another human’s sanctuary overnight.

Privately, I was ripped apart, every emotion overloaded my senses. Yet publicly a silence had closed in, I felt the need to censor myself. My camera became a therapeutic tool with which to pull myself back out of the fog of early motherhood. I poured myself out in front of it; seeing, accepting and occasionally even celebrating my new being. With winter had come peace; space to hunker down and nurture, a quiet space for love to grow.”

Naomi wears our limited edition madder dyed range.