RESIDENCY AT HOME

The work in this exhibition grew from watercolour studies of flowers in my garden. That was something I had been wanting to do for ages, but it felt like every possible way of painting flowers had all been done before.

Isolation makes your world smaller, and mine became smaller still with the use of a microscope. This led me to think about an insect's view of the flowers. Looking through a microscope I noticed little things that I had not seen before, and everything became more abstract.

“I discovered that there are repeated signifiers in my previous work. They centre around transience, transparency, movement, speed and colour, which all relate to ephemerality. ”
— Mary Hayes 2020

The images for Residency At Home show work that I exhibited online at Artcore Gallery Website: www.hatchery.artcoregallery.org.uk

Previous Paint Work

My work usually responds to the effects of light, reflections, and shadows, so my paintings are bright with a focus on how I see colour.