Please Don’t Let Me Forget

10 x 10” acrylic on wooden board. From the Flora and Fauna series created in Listowel, Ireland

Original description:
“If you’ve been following me for a minute, you know I paint a lot of fish and birds. Especially goldfish and koi fish. Did you know it’s possible to breed a goldfish and a koi fish? And that they can actually remember to up to three months worth of memories, despite popular beliefs? And, like trees, they grow a ring of scales for each year they are alive? (and they can live to be 40) When I paint these fish, it usually has something to do with wanting to remember and be present in a moment and thinking about how the fact is that, like most animals, we grow or shrink depending on the size and health of our habitats.”