Untitled Painting

Memories and emotions of a time past…. I visited Estonia on a work exchange in the summer of 2005: and whilst there I realised that I wanted to document the faces of local people that I passed in the street each day, to depict their expressions of struggle and response to me as an outsider, a ‘tourist’ looking in. Their wrinkled and tension-filled faces intrigued me. I felt that I was almost able to look into their characters, ignoring all their flaws. Through my painting and the photos I took during my visit I have tried to recapture the way I responded to them and the emotions I sensed they were feeling at the time. Snapshot photography captured time and tension, suspense and atmosphere. It has fed and focused my memories of specific situations and details. I felt that by painting the scene I could relive the time and give physical form to my experience. My process of working has involved a transition from loose mixed media drawings that became triggers for larger paintings. In the more detailed scaled-up images I have used layered line and fractured mark- making to echo the difficulty I experienced whilst attempting to pin down memory and reflect on all the complex characters I encountered. I have worked in an erratic, expressionistic style using heavy brushstrokes and colours that evoke my memories of Estonia

Painting:Watercolor on Paper

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:10 W x 11 H x 3 D in

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