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This work uses an unusual restraint in my palette, settling into a nut-brown tonality. The patterning evokes a mid-century domestic atmosphere. While my practice continues to explore relationships - how one element reacts to another, how intimate proximity creates harmony, resistance, or silence, this piece also engages with nostalgia as a living force rather than a fixed past. It draws on my memory of a home shaped by the 1950s and 60s, where carpets, furniture and paintings persisted, unchanged into my adulthood.
The work considers how these inherited aesthetics continue to shape my contemporary experience, allowing personal and collective memory to surface from my subconscious in a materially responsive, present-tense form.
Images: Peter Bowles
Acknowledged others: Peter Bowles
