40 x 50cm
SOLD  

Painting of Drina (originally called Cretic) coming into Cardiff Docks

This painting was very well received at the Unreliable Memories exhibition at the West Wharf Gallery in the summer of 2013. It sold at the "private view" and I could have sold it many times over.

It is a very personal painting. As a child I would often dream that my dad’s ship had come into Cardiff docks. 

A common theme in my paintings, ships, long since broken up, represent a past, bitter-sweet, transient homecoming. The family is once again complete.

The painting has a dreamlike quality to it. It’s sort of Butetown but it’s not Butetown. Cardiff bay is rendered minimally. Some landmarks, such as the Norwegian Church and St. David’s Hotel are there, but others are eerily missing - as is the spire of the Norwegian Church which I scribbled over in my enthusiasm and which I decided not to put back as it added to the dreamlike quality of the painting. More comfortingly, the familiar shapes of Flatholm and Steepholm and Penarth Head are identifiable.

People seemed to like the colours too.