Stories from things past

A Marcel Proust in ‘A la recherche du temps perdu’ (translates to ‘In Search of Lost Time’ or ‘Remembrance of Things Past’) wrote that when we give our memory an order to bring back a fragment of our past it can only suggest the factual data or the skeleton; but the original flavour of the scene will be left behind. In his work he refers to ‘inner time’, the emotions triggered by the memory of an actual thing - in his case a little madeleine cake. My search begins with the rape seed field at the bottom of my childhood garden and from there the patchy memories lead from one to another, from places, to events, to people, possessions even foods. The paintings are reactions to the memories. Every image has a story. In some