Oil on canvas, 2025.
Brand new painting featuring in Eleanor’s new 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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