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He continues: “The other part is
paying tribute to someone who has been
paining for the last 30 years, [who’s] very
unassuming but also recording, particularly
post 1987, and into 2000, looking at that
aspect of Fiji’s history, because it affected
her very deeply. She wanted to record it
through her paintings. And we don’t have
any artists who are doing that.”
Ricketts is no longer painting, although
she created one new work for the exhibition.
She is still an artistic soul however, creating
beautiful patchwork quilts which she gifts to
family and friends.
Poet Mary Oliver once said: “The most
regretful people on earth are those who felt
the call to creative work, who felt their own
creative power restive and uprising, and
gave to it neither power nor time.”
It’s a line Ricketts repeats to us, reflecting:
“When you do have the opportunity to
define and develop your own creativity, I
think it's very positive, it's healing.”

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