Sibling Therapy

Travis Hicks

Watercolor on 300# Arches cold press paper

$5,000.00

2D Medium: Watercolor
Dimensions: 39.5 l x 28.5 w x 1 h
Weight: 10 pounds

This portrait of the artist’s daughter and son is from a series of portraits documenting the pediatric cancer family’s experience. The artist’s series of pediatric cancer watercolor portraits presents poignant and tender moments of this young girl who fought cancer, relapsed, and fought cancer again before receiving a life-saving stem cell transplant using umbilical cord blood cells. Sibling Therapy, a large-format watercolor, captures this tender moment between siblings in a pediatric cancer unit where the artist’s daughter receives chemo. Oncology jargon and medical terms permeate the background, words dissolving among the two figures as they focus on an everyday activity of playing games online together. The young girl faces cancer with resolve, determination, hope, and strength, emotionally supported by her siblings. The artist recounts the family’s journey through pediatric cancer in a 2019 memoir titled “No Match For Her.”