Remembrances of War: An Exhibition by Paul Joyce
My first thoughts on beginning the series were to paint exactly what I remembered, but then I began to throw the net wider, and included London images which I had not personally experienced, as for the length of the war I was based in Hampshire. Pictures which occurred, so to speak, in my mind's eye. This then is the basis for the series, and indeed show beginning its life at The Bentley Priory Museum in November 2023. Whilst the paintings were not made in 1940–45 they are based on real experiences which I was only able to see and then reimagine, not actually represent at the time as I ...