the fruits of Fire, Forge and Furnace
Brass and iron, glass, and pottery. These are things that remain and endure through time. The objects in these paintings represent those things that emerge from the metal worker’s forge, the glass blower’s furnace and the potter’s kiln.
They are the remains of moments of creativity in the service of everyday life. Objects made to serve routines and beautify ways of life that now remain only in fragments of memory, images of childhood and the stories of our parents.
Their works remain - links to past ways of life and to the dreams and hopes from which we ourselves emerged. A wedding gift, a souvenir, a small treasure carried from home to anchor new endeavors.
What survives is often random. Everyday things become treasures, because we see in them a form of beauty that outlives the practical.
Born of fire, they reflect and refract the light that living things absorb and turn to flower, flesh and blood. Though solid, they are but ghosts.
The flower lives, transforming light to substance, until the secateurs’ bite consigns it to the world of shadows.