How does the home that was once a vessel of certainty become a site of fragile recall and fragmented narrative? In the exhibition Sheltered in Place, I navigate the erosion of memory within interior spaces, and non geographical places where familiarity dissolves into abstraction. 

The paintings in this exhibition are a collection of both vague remembrances and playful imaginings. While the work is mostly imagination, it is filtered through the lens of a life equally affected by great joys and tremendous grief. Memories of place, of lives lived and roles played intermingle with the ever present slow creep of time.

The challenges of living a life invade and transform the domestic from familiar to one of memory within many of the paintings in this exhibition. Textures, erasure, trace evidence of lines and layers of shapes represent the starts and stops of living, the stories we shape, the disappointments we suffer and the celebrations we experience. 

The vignettes and florals in this exhibition serve as snapshots of specific times and spaces in my life. These paintings are not wholly imagined, instead they serve more as a record of sort, as a way of marking time. A collection of remembrances where stillness, exuberance and simple beauty is celebrated.

~Eileen Murray