Helen Carter

The Waiting Lights series has in part been inspired by the large ships often seen anchored in Falmouth Bay. Seeing their lights floating on the horizon in the early evening has become synonymous with my time living and working in Falmouth and every return visit since.

The paintings are an amalgamation of landscapes observed and the time spent searching for them again in the paint. Some details of the landscape may be left out or forgotten but what remains taps into a more visceral memory of the landscape instead.