Grant Searl - Tree of My Life

Framed size: 100 x 100cm

Limited edition print: No 12 of 70

There is a common thread running through all of my work. A feeling of searching for a way of painting that evokes a time and a place that reminds me of a youth well spent. As I get older, the texture of a memory influences what I paint more and more.

The style that I feel is a true reflection of my own life and personality are the paintings I call 'Retro Surrealism', they are a combination of memories I have, and surrealist influences I see in the world we live in. I think that a person's true home is their childhood. These surreal ideas can be found in the landscape or in fantastical ideas coming from music, film and TV, to literature and modern art. I try to fuse these ideas into an image which provokes childhood and adolescent memories with a surreal landscape or imagined setting.