Growing up in Florida, we spent a lot of summer days at the beach.  It’s just what you did.  My favorite thing about beach days was the way it felt when we left the sand and surf behind.  Salty skin, tangled, wind blown hair, a bucketful of found treasures.  There was a feeling of ease and freedom, elation mixed with contented exhaustion.  Those beachside impressions are the subject of the paintings of Portland artist Lisa Golightly.

 

Using found photos as the catalyst for her paintings, Lisa explores memory, how photographs of experiences influence our perceptions.  Am I more likely to remember those beach days fondly thanks to the old square photos in worn albums looked through a hundred times?  Pushing back memories of jellyfish stings and sand in places it should never be, we look back with eyes that see only the wonder and magic.

All of the paintings featured in today’s post are available as prints in the Artsy Forager gallery on Great.ly!  Just click on each image for a link to each print’s detail page.  To see more of Lisa Golightly‘s work, you can also visit her website.

All images are via the artist’s website.

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