Park Series

Earlier this year I painted a series of paintings based on my childhood memories of playing in the parks near my home. As is often the case, I didn’t initially set out to do that, but when the paintings started to emerge it became clear to me what they were.

Times were different when I was little and parents thought nothing of their young children being out playing all day, and so long as they knew roughly where they would be there was no need to worry. It feels so different today.

I was playing with colours and there was a lot of pink and blue, which is not the colour of the parks back then but is often the colour of the highly safe surfaces in today’s playgrounds.

I remember in the nearest park there was a rocket-shaped climbing frame, embedded in concrete, and usually with one or two kids with broken arms or bruised heads. (Memory being what it is, the reality is probably one person once broke an arm, and one other once fell on their head!)

By chance, when I was completing the paintings I came into contact with Joe at “The Yorkshire Framer”. Click here

He was framing quite a few portfolio pieces I’d sold last year so I popped down to visit him, taking one of these paintings as an example of current work.

You can see the paintings and the frames he made for me in the photos below.

The paintings are available at Saltbox Gallery Helmsley (Click here)