Deep blue silence - Pamela Johnson

Maddie, a 41 year-old artist, is on the brink of considerable success. A major exhibition of her work is being arranged at the Tate and she is beginning to suspect that she may be pregnant by her married lover, Dom. Initially keeping her suspicions to herself, Maddie doesn't do a test so that she need not 'know' for sure. As her work becomes more and more engrossing, she is drawn to a family mystery symbolised by two packing cases of broken glass.

Maddie's mother destroyed all the family glass in a shocking incident, years before, 'Silence in Prussian Blue' was the first picture she painted to reconcile her mother's bizzare behaviour and subsequent silence. Now, no longer painting but making installations, Maddie uses this broken glass to put her personal and artistic strength to the test.