Cally Trench: The Blue Swimming Costume and other paintings

Our recollections of childhood are compiled from strange mixtures of the real and imaginative worlds that we inhabited as children.

The Blue Swimming Costume, The Yellow Shorts, The Pink Hat, The Grey Trousers and Monument show a girl in ordinary clothes in unpopulated, exotic, rural, fictional or ambiguous landscapes.

In Repeating History and Irretrievable Time, the child occupies a space between the real world and the world of toys and dolls.

Cally Trench
Monument, 2006
Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 cm
Private collection

Cally Trench
Repeating History, 2006
Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 cm
Private collection

Cally Trench
Irretrievable Time, 2006
Acrylic on canvas, 76 x 76 cm

Cally Trench
The Blue Swimming Costume, 2004
Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 cm

Cally Trench
The Yellow Shorts, 2004
Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 cm

Cally Trench
The Pink Hat, 2004
Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 cm

Cally Trench
The Grey Trousers, 2004
Acrylic on canvas, 30 x 30 cm