Pablo's House, 2025
'Pablo's House ' was painted as a kind of premonition of visiting the Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda's, houses in Chile. There are three of them and they are now museums. Neruda loved the sea, collected ship's figureheads and glass objects. When I heard I had been awarded the Blackadder Houston Mid-career Travel Award, I was very excited about the possibility of visiting these houses and immediately painted this painting, adding some of my own objects too.
It is painted with distemper (pigment dissolved in glue) and oil paint. This combination affords a variety of intensity and mood which I thought was appropriate for the evolving subject matter.
- the artist