Carolyn Blake - Fragile Nostalgia 8

£750.00

Oil on panel
24 x 18 cm
2026

'Fragile Nostalgia' represents moments of looking, scrutinising and possibly questioning something that has captured my eye, be it the person in the painting who is responding to something, or me who has followed and watched someone responding to something of interest. There is something very intriguing about the way people look. I have always painted the non-event in the everyday, recalling images in a split second. I respond as a neutral observer, allowing a momentary glance to be suspended and brought to the canvas. I'm bringing to life the inconsequential and non-memorable. What is glimpsed as a snapshot, be it a colour, a shape or a structure, is recalled in a split second and becomes suspended in time. These paintings are about looking, how we look, the posture and the scrutiny of me the observing observer.

Oil on panel
24 x 18 cm
2026

'Fragile Nostalgia' represents moments of looking, scrutinising and possibly questioning something that has captured my eye, be it the person in the painting who is responding to something, or me who has followed and watched someone responding to something of interest. There is something very intriguing about the way people look. I have always painted the non-event in the everyday, recalling images in a split second. I respond as a neutral observer, allowing a momentary glance to be suspended and brought to the canvas. I'm bringing to life the inconsequential and non-memorable. What is glimpsed as a snapshot, be it a colour, a shape or a structure, is recalled in a split second and becomes suspended in time. These paintings are about looking, how we look, the posture and the scrutiny of me the observing observer.