Description
The inspiration for this painting comes from a memory of sitting in Regent’s park with friends and enjoying the lovely summer heat: drinking the cheapest beer we could find at Lidl and laughing about the fact that one of the peaches all of us were looking forward to eat was already mouldy straight out of the packet.
Inspired and partially in response to the Vanitas genre, the painting is a still life depicting those peaches (including the mouldy one). However, compared to the somber Vanitas painters who wanted to emphasise the fleeting meaninglessness of pleasure and inherent mortality defining everything, my painting tries to look at life through a more optimistic lens.
Specifically, whilst nothing sweet lasts forever, my painting was intended as a reminder of enjoying the good times exactly because they can’t last forever.
The title therefore acts as a double entendre – an invitation to remember the good times but also to be actively present when enjoying said good times before time inevitably moves on.
