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.
The paintings deliberately leave parts of the canvas unpainted, "unfinished" or blurred to express how memory alters with time and how some of those who helped make our memories are no longer here to share them with us anymore. They also express the things we have forgotten or would rather leave forgotten.
They express how present we were then and how much lay hidden. They suggest the implicit rather than explict.
This is a painting of me, my father and our local Priest, who suffered form the Troubles more than most.

Materials used:

oil on linen canvas

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