ON GWENVER BEACH

ON GWENVER BEACH 10/23   (2010)

acrylic on canvas

18" x 14" (46cm x 36cm)

UK price (inc p&p) £ 160.00 GBP

outside of the UK - please email me -  mydogateart@gmail.com

I may on occasion seem obsessed with men in suits - but that's maybe because I spent an awful long time being one - maybe this is my way of getting it out of my system. Loosely set on Gwenver Beach in the far west of Cornwall near Sennen Cove ( a top surfing spot ) - hence the spiky bleached blond hair... there's also the ritual mask vibe going on here as well.

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IT WAS 20 YEARS AGO THIS WEEKEND

This is another story behind the image interlude - looking at some of the pictures on this site. This image is entitled "They Fade Away Your Mum and Dad".

It is a digital "repeat to fade"rendering of a quick mobile phone capture of an old Kodak instamatic picture on my mantelpiece. I took it 30 years ago in my back-garden in Sidcup, Kent - during the summer holiday back from Polytechnic. It's my Mum and Dad. A shade over 10 years later they were both gone forever. My Mum died 20 years ago this weekend ( 18 months after my Dad ) and I became an "orphan" at 29. It's not a subtle concept - but it captures for me my feeling that people like old photos do fade away and become more difficult to recall and envisage - but also that the grief and sad emotions also fade as we move on. I loved them and they loved me - what more do I need to remember ? Physically I know where they are - washing amongst the toes of holiday-makers in Sennen Cove, where both their ashes were scattered - other than that and apart from in my head and heart - who knows ? Wherever you are - thanks - you were fab.