Blanche Guernsey

"I am an artist who uses painting to interrogate the relationship between memory and those ‘silent’ objects that seem to trigger a plethora of forgotten moments.

Through bold brushwork in oil paint, I render portraits of these silent objects. The images, at first seemingly bereft of people or places, suddenly feel filled with them; the objects carry the weight of a hundred stories. The paintings, of course, become silent objects in themselves; they are gestures to nostalgia, to care, to a life lived.

I hope that the images might connect us; in the personal beginnings of selected objects, there is something universal in the stories and memories they evoke. This is something that connects us all, across time. These are images about care, about significance, about cherishing a moment as it passes and remembering it fondly when it visits, perhaps whispered by one of those silent objects."