Memory Games (2025) Original Oil Painting by Ben Stephenson

This painting explores the way memory shifts between clarity and distortion. The blue vessel, tattooed with repeating eyes, suggests both protection and surveillance - echoing how our past often feels like it is watching us. The tiled background creates a rhythmic pattern, like a game board, where memory pieces move and rearrange themselves. Bright flashes of yellow inside the vase hint at fragments of fish refracted by the light, caught in reflection. The work plays between presence and absence, inviting the viewer to question what remains and what slips away.

Materials used:

Oil paint and natural indigo dye on canvas

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 40 x 60 x 2cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the back
• Style: Surrealistic
• Subject: Still life