The Norfolk Broads

About the Artist

Puma explores the unnerving fallibility of memory. Though predominantly autobiographical, her recent work explores the universality of personal nostalgia; the myriad ways in which we often find ourselves striving to piece together fragments of our youth. Inspired by family snapshots and home movies, puma explores the degradation of detail and the shifting of context when recalling the past, attempting to reconcile the objective visual truth of documented images, with the more subjective emotions of childhood memories.

Puma’s familiar theme, “Nostalgia, Loss, Memory and the Search for Meaning”, stems from her mother dying of breast cancer when she was six. As a result of her death, she has very little memory of her and the years following her death. Working from smaller mixed media pieces and old photographs, she paints sharp portraits that fade into abstraction around the edges, combining realism and abstraction in a fresh contemporary way.