Diana Charnley
www.dianacharnley.co.uk
@dianacharnleystudio
Statement:
My recent paintings use family history as source material which is often imagined and made up and placed alongside contemporary objects. The mechanization of military hardware is often viewed alongside personal objects or flesh. In my submitted painting called Control , I have depicted an aircraft cockpit and suggested the a human presence of those that flew it many decades ago. The analogue technology around the navigators table is seen alongside the foreground gloves. These belonged to my parents now deceased and act as a way of fusing the past with the present. As I was growing up I was aware that my father spent his working life in such places. After a museum visit looking at historical artefacts, Dad was painted. I imagined the light source through of window of an aircraft as representing the co existence of life and death. The two seats depicted in the plane
fuselage beneath it refer to past occupants for whom this was thier work place.
www.dianacharnley.co.uk
@dianacharnleystudio
Statement:
My recent paintings use family history as source material which is often imagined and made up and placed alongside contemporary objects. The mechanization of military hardware is often viewed alongside personal objects or flesh. In my submitted painting called Control , I have depicted an aircraft cockpit and suggested the a human presence of those that flew it many decades ago. The analogue technology around the navigators table is seen alongside the foreground gloves. These belonged to my parents now deceased and act as a way of fusing the past with the present. As I was growing up I was aware that my father spent his working life in such places. After a museum visit looking at historical artefacts, Dad was painted. I imagined the light source through of window of an aircraft as representing the co existence of life and death. The two seats depicted in the plane
fuselage beneath it refer to past occupants for whom this was thier work place.
Control
120 x 90cm
Oil on canvas
120 x 90cm
Oil on canvas