Up, Up, and Away

The Long Cloud,  Baltic Sea   -   William Blair Bruce 1900-06

「清澄」

F20

Far Away -  Kaoru Yamada , 2024

Attic Room , De Kolk - Wendelien Schönfeld , 1995.

Dutch, b.1950 -

Wobble Oil on wood panel 48 x 60in 2024

Working from a photo taken by my late father, I painted a moment from an epic banquet dinner we had together with his old friends, their wives, and their daughters. Through painting, through his eyes, I face grief and the memory of a difficult and regretful time. I spend time with him again in a sideways way.

The act of mining nostalgia and personal history is a destructive one. Missing pieces come into frustrating focus, inaccuracies congeal, and old feelings take new shapes. We can find illumination and healing through contemplation, but by re-experiencing the past, its original colour is altered forever.

Blueberries - Teija Lehto

Finnish, b. 1965 -

Egon Schiele, Portrait of the painter Anton Peschka, 1909