Like the miniature musical worlds of Bartok's compendium Mikrokosmos, these small paintings offer fleeting glimpses. Their momentary insights and illusions echo the shapes of half remembered, half forgotten experiences. Caught in transit or reflection, they are staffed by the pattern of shadow, the shimmer of sunlight, the texture of memory …

aming comes after seeing ….. and then titles become part of the complicated interaction that makes sense of pictures. These titles borrow the generic term, Souvenir , from the late ‘memory‘ paintings by French landscape artist, Camille Corot. The other words are gaelic and refer to geographical features, encountered time and again as place names in Wales, Scotland and Cornwall, as ubiquitous, ancient markers of the lie of the land and the narratives that usage and myth identify with them.