This December, two years after her highly acclaimed exhibition 'The Everything Doors' which marked Laura Facey's change of direction from figurative works to the celebration of patterns and design in nature, the artist and sculptor will show her newest works in a show titled 'Where I Stand'.

Working with fallen cedar trees from her St Ann farm, Laura continues to strengthen her spiritual connection and marvel of nature through massive carvings which reveal the organic beauty of wood. In this continuation of the 2006 show, Laura invites the art lover to Mount Plenty, and shares the rural beauty of her St Ann home.

Her passion

It was in 1976, while creating sets for the pantomime, that Facey discovered her passion for working on a large scale. More than 20 years later, her grand passions became a reality with the 1999 completion of 'Earth to Earth' for the University of Technology, a life-size mahogany carving of 'Christ Ascending' in 2000 for the St Andrew Parish Church, and the 2003 unveiling of 'Redemption Song' at the ceremonial entrance to Emancipation Park.

Facey had always longed for a voice: whether through the illustrations inspired by Jamaica's unusual landscape in her first children's book, Talisman The Goat, or in a failed bid to become the elected candidate for the Natural Law Party in her St Ann South Eastern community, Facey, and the politician in her, still soars with longing to see a better life for the people of Jamaica.

Laura Facey's 'Where I Stand' will remain on show in Mount Plenty, St Ann, through December.