Scenes from the Black Country

In the recent series of paintings of my childhood haunts, I have above all tried to communicate a sense of place. The works are based on photos I took on my walks around the streets, houses, parks and green areas when I visited my family in December 2021. They are of scenes very familiar to me, or at least, places that were very familiar and important to me in my early life. So the paintings draw on childhood memories and are a response to these memories. There is perhaps some nostalgia. But, more importantly, they represent a conscious process of coming to terms with my early life in all its aspects.