Memories flit and fade, they are ephemeral and transitory on life's timeline. Our eyes act like an internal camera storing this information for us to revisit them consciously or subconsciously.
Sweets, with their different shapes, colours, textures and flavours, brought aspects of my childhood, and that of my own children, into focus. This imagery linked to the human form with delicate shadows and silhouettes, like ghosts of the past through inks and watercolours.
A domestic BBQ scene remembering my daughter's toasting marshmallows is represented in mixed media encompassing carbon drawings, gouache and acetate. Home and neighbourhood in a suburban estate are portrayed in compressed charcoal, tracing paper, fineliner and Quink.
The everyday objects, no matter how insignificant, that surround us have an ability to tell a story. They remind us of a person, place or event, enabling us to revisit a memory. Past and present are constantly interlinked.
Memory Overload, graph paper, gesso, blue carbon, watercolour, acrylic ink, chalk, 29.7 x 42cm
Forest, sugar paper, tracing paper, neocolor aquarelle, 29.7 x 42cm
Sofa, Quink, black fineliner, Tipp-ex, acetate, white gouache, posca pen, 29.7 x 42cm
Fire, black carbon paper, gouache, 21 x 29.7cm
Interference, yellow card, black fineliner, orange coloured pencil, Quink, tracing paper, Posca pen, white gel pen, 29.7 x 42cm
Snow, blue paper, black Indian ink, gesso, gouache, Tipp-ex, chalk, 29 x 40cm
Trees, wallpaper liner, bleach, Quink, gouache, Posca pens, compressed charcoal, coloured pencil, Tipp-ex, white gel pen, 27 x 39cm
Research
Floating, tracing paper, blue paper, black fineliner, 21 x 29.7cm,
Suburbia, tracing paper, white cartridge paper, Quink, compressed charcoal, black fineliner, grey and white polychromos, 29.7 x 42cm