FINDING REVERIE 2025
Finding Reverie is a meditation on presence, memory, and the quiet weight of grief. Following the loss of someone deeply important to me, I found myself searching for stillness and meaning in the everyday. Moments that previously passed unnoticed became charged with emotional significance. In this body of work, I explore how seemingly mundane experiences can become sacred through remembrance and artistic creation.
My paintings depict figures immersed in natural landscapes. These paintings draws inspiration from the Romantic movement, where nature becomes a vast emotional mirror and the human figure is humbled within it. The landscape is not merely a backdrop, however a vital presence creating space for introspection, memory, and reverie. It holds the emotional weight of the moment, becoming a sanctuary to reflect within.
These scenes are not grand gestures, but subtle acts of preservation. Each painting becomes a vessel to hold and protect a fleeting moment, transforming the ordinary into something quietly reverent.
Through this body of work, I navigate the terrain of loss, not by recreating absence, but by celebrating presence. There is grief here that can be dark and daunting. There is also renewal, a reverie rediscovered in the stillness of a glance, a shadow in the water, or the hush of a shared silence. These paintings are keepsakes for memory, time and the gentle resilience of holding on to a moment.
Above from left to right: Late Night Walk, Fishing with Thread and Don't Look Down. Below from left to right: The Embrace, The Steep Path to Cleo's Pool and The Sky is Dark.
Finding Reverie is currently part of an online exhibition Reverie, at Long Street Art Lovers 1932 partnering with Micro.Exhibits [Visit Reverie at Art Lovers 1932].