Flowers from the stranger. Print

Merle Sild is a British painter working with oil paint and cold wax painting medium mostly. She holds a BA (Hons) in Painting, Drawing and Printmaking from Plymouth College of Art and has recently completed her MA in Painting. Inspired by Dylan Trigg, Merle is searching for a broader context between memory and places re-visioning her own personal history. She is painting the stories of timeless rebirth and hopes of new life beginning in locations of disasters and destruction. She considers her art to be a tell-tale, looking for emotional content even if it reflects ugly problems. Painting in abstract or semi-abstract ways gives her more freedom, though she is sometimes extensively influenced by the old masters and their creation of impressionist images. Her main aim of creating is to tell the viewer about the responsibility which needs to be taken knowing that together with time, humans are the most powerful creators and destroyers.