‘9/11 Memorial’ (2007), oil on linen, 140 x 100 cm.  2007

This painting commemorates and mourns the Islamist fundamentalist attacks on the World Trade Center towers, New York in which around 3000 people were killed in 2001. The scale of the grief statue in the foreground is uncertain - it could be as huge as the Statue of Liberty, which it naturally evokes. I was not in New York in 2001 and so I used photographs of the scenes o...