126 x 90 cm
Framed: contemporary white box
frame, glass
Acrylic, water-colour, pastel, conte, pencil, papers, found objects, on Arches paper
This piece is a response to our experiences in the UK on holiday....
a surprise 60th gift for Nigel, and to reconnect with his English and Welsh “roots”. Some of my ancestors also lived in “the mother country” too.
Many places left their imprint.
This
picture expresses my recollections of a walk one morning by a babbling brook near
our last B & B in Wales, on the west coast, in
oh-so-green countryside; bare trees just budding, huge banks of Spring-time
lemon yellow primroses, sheep (funny looking ones) safely grazing, all
enveloped in a soft hazy mist.
The “family tree(s)” .... “trunks through to twigs”, were equally wonderful and intriguing
discoveries, as “portraits” of those
past, and present, came alive in the flow of interaction...
This was a little like seeing glimpses of parts of yourself
in (sometimes foggy) mirrors ....