Oil on canvas, 2025.
This painting featured in Eleanor’s series, Toys Out Of The Box.
“I started playing with scraps of fabric, zips, pieces of wool and ribbon and some more substantial pieces of material – something I had printed from a series of my own drawings transformed through Adobe Illustrator.
I fashioned 3 stuffed figures which were redolent of my life and yet were toys. They appeared to take on a life – or rather an atmosphere of their own. I was transported to games of my childhood. I wondered to myself whether, as I child, playing with stuffed toys, I imagined myself inhabiting the games and stories inside the ‘souls’ of the toys. In adulthood, I certainly imbued these stuffed people with thoughts, feelings and memories which are uniquely personal to myself” – Eleanor Carlingford.
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