Original painting title: Dipping A Toe In 100 x 100 cm
Dipping A Toe In
2020
Oil on canvas
100 x 100cm
To celebrate the end of lock down in 2020, as a family we went swimming.
The sun was shining and the pool house was filled with noise of laughter and joy. All my senses seemed to be on fall alert, having not been swimming for a while, the held anxiety over the unknown, this swim was quite magical. Something made me stop and look across the pool, my 82 year old dad was standing with his toes on the edge of the pool. It felt like time stood still and I didn't see him as the wise, dependable father I knew or the loyal husband he was to his wife, or the service engineer with a life time of calculations to heat, cool and maintain humidity of precious spaces, nor was he the the jazz listener, or book reader, in that particular moment he looked just like a child, He had grin on his face that I had not seen for a while, a look in his eye, that mixed with the light that had cast golden shadows on to the scene.
It was shown at the solo show, Landscapes of Identity, where Joseph Constable, head curator of the De La Warr Pavilion lead me in an Q&A session about my art practice.
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