The Backyard, Remembered is a series of unique-state aquatint prints that records the colours of my childhood backyard from memory. My strongest memories of this space are of the plants, sky, and discarded objects found there, as their colours transformed in changing light and weather. Through the process of making the work, I discovered that it was impossible to visualise exact colours from memory. Instead, they had to be searched for through an intuitive process of printing and reprinting until familiar and resonant colours emerged.

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The medium of aquatint allowed for semi-transparent inks to be layered in endless variations, while the thin, delicate mulberry paper gives the colours an immediate presence, as though they are floating in space. The work evokes the elusiveness of both memory and colour, paying homage to the childhood home as a significant and enduring presence in adult life.