Places To Remember
The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong

Places to Remember is a group of paintings that attempt to make the intangible tangible. Ornamentation sits alongside floating landscapes, alluding to the nature of dreams, the unconscious and free association. The ephemeral takes its place alongside the descriptive, allowing the viewer a detour from the everyday to a place beyond immediate reality.

The paintings are a highly personal blend of abstraction and representation, incorporating an eclectic range of visual references, including Arabic miniatures and Tibetan thangkas. Symbolism emerges as a means to make sense of an ancestral land never visited. The paintings from Places to Remember allow the fantasies of childhood to play out via an exploration of memory and stories, as if in search of the promised land.

The technique incorporates multi-layered surfaces, age-old Dutch glazing techniques, and playful mark making.   The process of constructing these paintings is akin to the emergence of the imagery itself.   Considered layering and slow drying times allow for the images to arise and settle, making each painting a snapshot that is representative of time and memory.