In her sixties, gallerist Julia Peyton-Jones decided to devote her life to something new: motherhood. She reflects on how her daughter Pia lit up her life, and her art.
I divided each page into 12 windows, and would choose 12 moments to depict in the vignettes. Sometimes it was a bit like Adrian Mole’s diary: “Got up, went to school, came home, went to bed.
In the summer of 2014, I booked myself in for a week at the Original Mayr clinic in Austria, a wellbeing centre, to give myself a deadline for. The final decision turned out to be, as all good decisions are, uncomplicated and straightforward. By the second day at the Mayr, I’d made up my mind that whatever difficulties lay ahead, I’d do everything I could to start a family.
My tenure at the Serpentine, where I was appointed director in 1991, would soon be reaching a quarter century, and I couldn’t see how I could balance the demands of the fascinating, all-consuming job with the love, care and attention that I needed and wanted to devote to a baby. I offered my resignation to the board of trustees exactly 25 years after my first day at the Serpentine.
There was much nail-biting worry about the wellbeing of this tiny soul, who had been born prematurely and was in intensive care for a week. I remember singing to Pia at 3am, in an unsuccessful endeavour to comfort her. It felt as though we were the only people alive.
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