Original artwork description:

This painting is from is a series of paintings originally painted for an international Arts Festival in the UK. They explore the lability of memories and how they change through time, via experience, insight and loss. How we can see more in them as we mature.
These are paintings of a childhood in the "Troubles" of Northern Ireland, which left the knawing sense of absence, lost potential and a longing for a home that is no longer there.
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They express how present we were then and how much lay hidden. They suggest the implicit rather than explict.

This is a painting of our Parish hall after some religious celebration, my family with our neighbours and my Headteacher from Primray School. It expresses an unease at looking the part, while not feeling part of it.

Materials used:

oil on linen canvas

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