SMALL NARRATIVES

The Small Narratives are the most intimate things I make: small, quiet paintings, each a scene that doesn't fully explain itself. I made them when I had something to say and no words for it – the brush carried what I couldn't.

I won't tell you what they mean. Each one is finished by whoever looks at it: I set the scene and leave the rest open, the way a feeling is open before you find the word for it.

A small figure on a cliff under a huge moon. Two people on a bench outside a lit house. A bowl broken and mended in gold. Drops that never stop falling. A girl casting a beam of light she made herself.

I let other people name them. I carried each painting around and asked whoever saw it first what they would call it – so the titles belong to the first people who looked.

There are nine, each original roughly 10 by 6 centimetres – small enough to hold. Every one is available as a fine art print.