Original artwork description:

This painting is part of the 'Hiraeth' series.
The artist has chosen to incorporate elements of paper collage intertwined with traditional painting. The face of the character in this painting is sourced from the painting "Young Woman with Unicorn" by Raphael. The tiles are made from decorative paper handmade by the artist.

Due to its huge size, the painting is shipped rolled in a tube, which means you will have to take it to the frame workshop to stretch it on the bars again.
Can be hung with or without a frame.

Artist Statement:
Hiraeth – a word that at once signifies homesickness, nostalgia, and a grief caused by the yearning for a place you can no longer return to. This multi-layered Welsh word fully embodies the spirit of my project. Recent events has forced us all to process these feelings, a nostalgia for our past lives to which we can never return. A place whose beauty only lives in our memory.

For this series the artist found inspiration in the mechanism of how the human brain uses to store and access memories. Every time we recall a memory from our past, we alter this memory in an unpredictable and irreversible manner. And what we recall the next time we return to this thought is not the original memory, but a memory of this memory.

To best show that the artist has chosen to incorporate elements of paper collage intertwined with traditional painting. The ‘cutouts’ are sourced from paintings of old masters, antique illustrations and found vintage photos - the perfect metaphor for “memory”. By cooperating with painters and photographers through time the artist is searching answers to questions - are memories best left untouched, a perfect record of the past? Or are they something to be part of our present?

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