Early Work

 

Diminishing Seconds was exhibited at The Mall Galleries, London. Where in 1998 it won second prize in 'The Society of Art of the Imagination' open competition.
'I painted it when I was 19 years old and it reflects the panic of reaching the end of my teenage years. My younger sister Amy features twice in the painting. One dressed in contemporary clothing and the other timeless. Time motifs run throughout the painting, from the dandelion clock seed head in the top corner to the architectural mixture of red brick and Ancient Greece.'

Regret, 'The narrative of this painting is intentionally left open and incomplete. Contradictions make it unanswerable. Is she falling or is she been lifted? Her hand is in water yet her feet are not. The pendant seems to be suspended but her hair hangs down! The composition of the painting is based around the pearl at the end of the pendant which doubles as the vanishing point. All architecture gravitates to it, drawing your eyes into the distant hills.'

Seth Garland, 1998