23/02/2018
“Memory river"
2017
Oil on canvas
£300
This is one of my favourite pieces in the show. It’s a little painting of my daughter, Samantha, gazing into the depths of the River Cherwell. More impressionistic than other pieces in the show, an acknowledgement that magic moments have their very essence tied to the fact that they are magic because we cannot hold onto forever. Do we ever feel time passing? Or only do we only feel it once it has passed?
A trip down 'memory lane' for us as we had the opportunity to take our children to the place where we, their parents, first met. But the ‘river’ seemed a much better reflection of the nature of the memories.