FRAGMENTS AND THREADS

 

This body of work explores childhood memory, and how an experience of loss can lodge in the subconscious and become bittersweet over the passage of time. The lines and splatter represent the unpredictability and fugitive nature of memory. Whilst painting I have often wondered if what I was remembering was true. Might the memory have already altered and continue to recur differently over time? The lines are like temporal threads, interweaving, connecting and having a life of their own. In my work I want to create tension between memory, time and emotion, bringing together the opposing elements of chaos and harmony. Randomness is embedded in the under-painting through the intuitive use of colour and fluid material agencies. After this phase I decide on the imagery and work to harmonise the background and foreground into one cohesive whole.