Sweet William died for me today
I'll die for him tomorrow
Barbary Allen speaks of the cruelty of lost and unattained love. I wanted to try to resolve this is my painting - perhaps because of the idealist in me. Barbary Allen and Sweet William are joined together in my painting, entwined within each other as in the rose and the briar, in an imagined landscape. I was thinking of a deathly yet beautiful place. The white sands and gentle colours suggest a peaceful afterlife. The couple are suspended gently above the contingencies of space and time. They are placed in a space which is intangible and out of reach but joined together eternally.
I wanted to take the song back home to England, so I found inspiration from some polaroids I took in St. Ives. I love the feeling of small British coastal towns, the sense of loneliness and separation, slight mystic qualities of the sea and the rain, the flow of the waves and the (sometimes) peaceful blue of the sky and the water.
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