Ann McCay Artist

Remembered Places Twenty Twenty Gallery Solo Show

The work in this exhibition explores how reality becomes entangled with our memory and imagination. Remembered events and emotions cluster around places giving them a depth, richness and meaning.

The places that feature in these paintings are my garden and its shed, Rectory Wood, The Haberdashery Shop, Barbara Hepworth’s shed in her St. Ives garden, a potato house, a derelict cottage, a room in Tangiers and my local riverbank.

All these places evoke memories of childhood when experiences are vivid and free of adult preconceptions. They are seeds around which images from different times and locations gather in a parallel world of reverie.

  • Sleeping Figure
  • Looking Towards the Shed
  • Looking up to the Shed
  • Woodland Pool
  • Two Children
  • Triplets
  • The Woodcutter’s Brother
  • The Stove in the Wood
  • The Shed at Night
  • The Hidden Room
  • The Helpful Assistant
  • The Blue Shed
  • Stocking Shelves
  • Springtime Shed
  • Sleeping with Foxgloves
  • A Joint Decision
  • Riverside Sheds
  • Mending Fences
  • Looking into Barbara Hepworth’s Shed
  • Inside the Shop
  • Garden Dovecot
  • Frying Eggs
  • Entering the Garden
  • Displaying Wares
  • Crossing the Stream
  • By The River
  • Boy Reading
  • Between the Sheds
  • Barbara Hepworth’s Shed