‘Ephemeral Captured’ oil on 20″ x 20″ canvases, is a small collection of paintings that are intended to illustrate and capture fleeting, transformative moments, painted on canvas from memory. This work was featured in the ‘International Contemporary Artists Book. Volume X’ published in 2015.
We Holiday Here Every Year
(Umbrellas on the Beach)
This series was inspired by a conversation with a couple I met on the beach who had returned to the same location every year for three decades — first as newlyweds, and later with children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
The brightly coloured umbrellas — red, blue, yellow, orange, green and pink — mark presence and repetition within the landscape. They suggest both imprint and continuity. As the couple described how certain memories remained vivid while others faded, I introduced variations in colour intensity and clarity. The shifting tones and dissolving imagery reflect the uneven persistence of memory over time.
‘Wave in Exile’ is a series of 3 paintings that utilises the movement and power of the sea as a metaphor to express the uncertainty and isolation felt by those caring for loved ones with dementia and Alzheimers. Made over a period of two years when the artists parent was slipping further and further into Alzheimers. 1, 2 and 3 express the changing nature of that journey.
Wave in Exhile 2, was donated through Thompson Snell and Passmore solicitors for auction. With all proceeds to the Alzheimers Society UK.
The Three paintings in the series were created over a two year period using Acrylic, Oil and Gold Leaf on Canvas. The colour and gold fragmenting through the changing wave is illustrative of the changing nature and fragmentation of the many layers of life and memory:
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