Sally Dodd

My work revolves around absence, memory and our perception of time. Places that become fixed in memory often take on a revered and untouchable quality. Revisiting these places years later can be unsettling. I’m interested in this disparity of feeling between past and present, and in the time that passes in places when they are out of mind. I find something strangely reassuring in the thought of time continuing in a place with no observers, unaffected by outside events. In my paintings I want to show a glimpse of what is there, carrying on uninterrupted, without our presence. The landscapes I choose to depict are specific places which have stuck in my mind, and are the result of the piecing together of snippets of information drawn from memory and photographs.