This collection of paintings created over a period of 6 months in 2022/23 takes its theme and inspiration from my return to the UK and my home town of Frome.  Each painting connects to an experience or a memory reinterpreted from a new perspective.  

 

There is a poignancy and strangeness to returning to a place after many years, a sense that things are the same but not, that you are the same but not and the conflict which arises brings with it a sense of discombobulation, an otherness.  

 

I wanted to share this in the paintings by allowing the pieces to grow very organically as I paint, taking lead for the title from the words and memories that pop into my head.