Jennie Tasker

There is an intriguing dichotomy between the undeniable nature of life’s impermanence and our need to grasp what the Romantics termed, ‘the eternal moment’. For me the perpetual movement of light through sky and water epitomises this binary opposition.

In water and sky and light we are gifted a visual reminder that the memories, the experiences we grasp as true, are constantly shifting and changing, becoming ideas of a fleeting moment; mercurial, phantasmal images, depending on the experiences we bring to the reminiscence.

Like shards of light piercing the surface of the water or flickering on a wave or breaking through clouds…

And yet, the paradox is not lost on me that through my painting I am also trying to give permanence to fleeting moments and fix them into an unchanging form. Perhaps an attempt not to make time stand still as to make it vanish altogether.