Christchurch before the Earthquakes Print

I have no short-term memory, I forget I'm walking downstairs and I fall. My life is a series of snapshots where the emotions I felt in those moments are my memories. They stay with me, nostalgia, roots, within the surroundings. I celebrate the everyday, the ordinary we were born to. So often people make a conscious effort to change the ordinary that they surround themselves with, but to me, they're out of place. How can you truly celebrate life experience unless you acknowledge the ordinary you were born to, that which has shaped you? There is something special about the ordinary. When I start painting I try to block out the detail and layer the form, but the detail draws me in, to a point where I see everything and nothing. It's Ordinary plus ordinary which makes extraordinary. I work freehand, currently with pencil and acrylic paint. I was born and live in Bolton, near Manchester, England.