Ashley Holmes, Day 398, painting, 25 x 20 x 4 cm
Year: 2019
Medium(s): acrylic paint and acrylic skins on panel
- £350.00
Shipping - 7 - 10 days from Northern Ireland, UK
Return - This work is eligible for return
Artist - Selected Recognitions
- Art works in public and corporate collections (including at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast and Bank of Ireland, Dublin)
- Exhibited at the Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition in Belfast
- Exhibited internationally in China and USA.
Further information
‘After my mother died in 2018, I began a series of paintings of a single image and its mirror image. The image is a landscape with a pond that my grandfather dug out of a swamp near Boston. My mother grew up on that land and her ashes are scattered there. I have painted this image over and over to record my process of grieving. Each painting reflects a different mood with colour and rendering over the course of the year and a half since her death. I wish to understand the way grief can alter how the world appears. The painter Rembrandt lost the people he loved most, and in a series of self-portraits painted nearly over half a century, he allowed the viewer to see how grief altered his features. Taking inspiration from his works, I am allowing the viewer to see how the grief colours the world through my eyes. To my surprise it has not been a dull colourless expression but an intense life-affirming assertion.’ Ashely Holmes
