Exploration of Home

This is a project that has been lurking in the back of my mind for a long time. I have lived in approximately 43 homes during my life. I don’t look at this as a bad thing, it’s made me very adaptable. But I do wonder what it is that makes a place home, sometimes… Does the summer I spent in Germany when I was 16 count, for example? All these things, and my memories of the places I’ve lived, I’m going to try to capture in paintings. The paintings that I create may be very different from my other work, and they may be very different from each other. I am finding it hard as I explore this topic, to avoid being too literal with objects and places in my memories. I don’t necessarily want each piece to be a picture of a house, either. Sometimes it’s the landscape that influenced my feelings about a place, more than a structure. I am not going to let any preconcieved notions restrict the direction of the work, either. This is an exploration of what home means, to me. I have never had a home for very long, but I have never been homeless. We shall see where this exploration leads.