Cally Trench: recent paintings

These paintings are 5-foot-square unconventional landscapes. They depict places that the artist knew as a child, and are painted from memory - and from imagination where memory ran out.

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The places - suburban scenes of streets, rivers, houses, backgardens, parks and wasteland - are shown from directly above, the distanced overhead view of old memories. The paintings also reflect the way that children look down on the worlds that they create and play with obsessively - miniature gardens, model railways, imaginary islands, and complete universes made from bits and pieces.

Most of the paintings are inhabited by a single figure - the artist as a child - often lying on the ground gazing up at the sky. The viewer - in the air? rising? falling? - gazes back.