These two paintings are on the periphery of a larger body of work which includes photography, sculpture and text. The basis of this larger body of work, including ‘flash of blue, or green’, is triggered by the discovery of a jar of sea glass (the glass you find washed up not the beach, smoothed by the sea) and the memories of a childhood holiday to the Isle of Skye.
Having not painted using oils in over 10 years, but after receiving the scrap wood and rediscovering some photographs taken on this holiday, it was the material I was drawn to use. Both paintings are inspired by photographs taken 20+ years ago.
“There was a fresh wave of joy whenever I discovered a new piece, especially if it was larger than the last or a new colour. To me, at the age of five or six, they were like jewels: utterly and completely precious.”
