Sarah Pickstone (B. 1965)

'How do we define image? Is image a visual thought? Do all images have their source in other images, or associations with other images?....

I've been working for the past three years on the ways in which figures, places and ideas meet and open each other, specifically referencing writers who happened, in history, to pass through London's Regent's Park. The park has long been a source for my work, a place where the public and the private, the external and the psychological worlds, come together. It's also a place of constant renewal. The painting is about this renewal, natural and aesthetic, across form, time and image.' (S. Pickstone, quoted at https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/johnmoores/jm2012/prizewinners/pickstone.aspx [accessed 19th December 2013])