![Painting, Burning Light, Janet Gough](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1918233_1_grid.jpg)
Presentation
Through my recent work, I have been expressing 'capturing the essence of the moment'. When from the corner of my eye, I capture something that visually excites me, and I want to try to preserve the energy of this moment through painting.
Sometimes I paint a little memory. Stumbled upon through the scent of a colour, the thread of a scrap of fabric, the fragment of a day out. A few past moments retained like snapshots create a visual narrative in paint……stories.
Sometimes my paintings are collages of moments where I play with real representative collage. I preserve a memory (watercolour on tissue paper) responding with this media to the fragile nature of the subject, which I seal with layers of varnish into a still life. If I'm listening to music the lyrics sometimes link subconsciously into pieces of my work, and eventually become entangled in the paint on the canvas.
I try to find beauty in the small everyday moments of life, and share it through my paintings. On the days I get lost, I go back to Matisse, Picasso and read Hockney whose personal perspective lifts my spirits and always makes me seek to find 'pink through blue'.
![Painting, Burning Light, Janet Gough](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1918233_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Meeting Klimt in the Silver Birches Again, Janet Gough](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1918224_1_grid.jpg)
Meeting Klimt in the Silver Birches Again
Janet Gough
Painting - 40 x 40 x 6 cm Painting - 15.7 x 15.7 x 2.4 inch
€856
![Painting, Travelling to St Ives, Janet Gough](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1918230_1_grid.jpg)
Travelling to St Ives
Janet Gough
Painting - 49 x 49 x 4 cm Painting - 19.3 x 19.3 x 1.6 inch
€1,909
![Painting, Birds in the Blue, Janet Gough](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1486110_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Two Bluebirds, Janet Gough](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1486107_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Turtle Doves, Janet Gough](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/897765_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, The Acorn, Janet Gough](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1485900_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Little Bird and Orange, Janet Gough](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1918227_1_grid.jpg)
Little Bird and Orange
Janet Gough
Painting - 60 x 60 x 4 cm Painting - 23.6 x 23.6 x 1.6 inch
€2,279
![Painting, Dreams of Birds and Flowers, Janet Gough](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1918239_1_grid.jpg)
Dreams of Birds and Flowers
Janet Gough
Painting - 51 x 51 x 4 cm Painting - 20.1 x 20.1 x 1.6 inch
€2,587
![Painting, Dance of the Butterflies, Janet Gough](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1918236_1_grid.jpg)
Dance of the Butterflies
Janet Gough
Painting - 69 x 69 x 4 cm Painting - 27.2 x 27.2 x 1.6 inch
€2,895
![Painting, First Day of August, Janet Gough](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/1918209_1_grid.jpg)
![Painting, Things Blown on the Wind, Janet Gough](https://media.artsper.com/artwork/897771_1_grid.jpg)
Things Blown on the Wind
Janet Gough
Painting - 90 x 90 x 1 cm Painting - 35.4 x 35.4 x 0.4 inch
€2,402