Moth Painting

Frances Blythe was born in London in 1952 and migrated to Australia in 1994, after a career as a senior administrator at The Royal College of Surgeons of England. She now lives in South Fremantle, Western Australia, and has a Master of Arts (Visual Arts) from Curtin University.

I am interested in memory and our relationship to time, and how our perceptions of everyday things - transformed by our thoughts into momentarily strange and unrecognisable sights - can lead us into different places, different times. The material of our everyday environment, whether it is from a landscape or a domestic space, can be full of strangeness and surprise. Things can suddenly be seen as if for the first time and then associations and memories attach themselves and complexity multiplies. I am particularly interested in how the language of paint can be used to lead the viewer into the open possibilities of a painting.