Three female figures emerge from a luminous landscape of soft pinks, violets and blues, connected by embroidered threads that stretch across the canvas and continue around its edges. Painted with acrylic and enriched with oil pastel and hand-stitched cotton embroidery, the work combines painting with textile to create a tactile, multidimensional surface. Part of my ongoing series The Memory Keepers, this painting explores memory as an invisible force that connects people across time and experience. The embroidered threads become physical traces of emotions, relationships and shared memories, extending beyond the painted surface to suggest that memory never exists in isolation—it lives between us. The figures are not portraits of specific individuals, but symbolic keepers of memory, carrying emotional traces rather than literal stories. Through layers of color, abstraction and thread, the work invites viewers to reflect on the invisible connections that continue to shape who we are, long after moments have passed.
Acrylic, oil pastel and hand embroidery with cotton embroidery floss (mouliné) on canvas. The edges are painted and the embroidered threads continue around the sides of the canvas, making the work complete and ready to hang without framing.
