Spectators

"Spectators"

Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh 17th June - 6th July 2010

"These paintings portray an intentionally literal interpretation of the games and rituals I remember from childhood. The children are involved in experiments to create one thing from another; rose-coloured clouds from blood and tears, perfume from petals, and liquors "distilled" to cure imagined ills . Utensils and raw ingredients found in their immediate domestic surroundings are used in their play to mimic the instruments of the alchemist. They are workmanlike about the tasks they are doing, regarding them as essential and natural within their imagination. This reflects the adult world they observe from the safe perspective of their childhood landscape".