A Turn Around the Sun
Acrylic on canvas wrapped shaped board
Overall dimensions: 35.5”x 57”
My work is an abstract exploration of the dynamics of color and shape and as such, subject matter is more of an issue of what I was thinking about while making the piece rather than the driving force behind it. I often find that what I am working on tends to take on a meaning for me in a subtle way, almost in a process of osmosis. These pieces that I painted during the Covid 19 lockdown have come to symbolise the pain of that time, but also the hope of a new beginning. Like many people, I was unable to see family and loved ones. My family is almost all in the UK and I missed so many important events. I was unable to be there for my fathers final days in a nursing home with dementia and for the births of a nephew and twin nieces. I felt a tremendous sense of loss and also guilt at not being able to be there for Dad in his final days.
Making work in my studio was an escape from the oppression of the lock down and "A Turn Around the Sun" became a meditation about the circularity of life. About loss and also about birth and hope for the future, that perhaps this time next year this would all be behind us and we could forge a new path.
