The challenge for June is Round / Le défi du mois juin est ronde.

By Victoria Stevenson This is a memory of my former cat, Travis, eating my dog Nelly’s food. I know it doesn’t seem that much like a “Memory” type painting, but the Queen of Everything was in a show. I love to share any memory of my former cat and the painting was based on a Memory.

By Véronique Gerland My response to the challenge, Bison, mémoire d’une liberté perdue -Memory of a lost freedom. It is watercolour on 100% cotton.

By Hélène Ceré    I made this painting in memory of my mother who passed during the pandemic in 2020. My Mom was in a long term care facility and was suffering from Alzheimers. During one of our visits, she insisted on having an harmonica. She would say, “Where is my harmonica?”  In all my life, I never saw or heard her play, never knew she did! 

The day we gave her the instrument, she took it and started playing old folks songs like she had never stopped playing.  We were shocked and amazed. Maybe the last decades were gone but she still had life and a whole world in her mind. It was just beautiful. It is now a memory I cherish. 

By Laura Peck Memory sticks is the title of my 2025 3D series. Aren’t they pretty?  Aren’t they funny?

Memory sticks
 
A packed church, a crammed assembly
Yesterday, reminded me of all the places
Where I mourned or shared the loss of loved ones
Stern or smiling, always familiar, wrinkled faces.
Memory sticks.
 
Memory sticks
Also is the title of my 2025 3D series.
Aren’t they pretty?
Aren’t they funny?

Mémoire
Une odeur, l’encens
Une couleur: le vert des champs
Ou le bleu de l’océan
Des gens, tellement de gens
Qui pleurent le départ d’une maman.

By Milo Smith I have this image of an old one-room schoolhouse (Lorne Road School) on Lorne Road in Lochiel in Glengarry County.  It brings back memories of simpler times.

By Margaret Stewart A  Memory can trick us into looking at things differently. 
It can evoke a time in one’s life and it can jolt us into a scene  we once saw. 
A smell / A glimpse of  a colour can lead us to revisit a place in our minds. 
There we savour the “ MEMORY”. 

A painting  is a journey  for an Artist to release the Inner memory onto canvas. 
A picture can help us re-live that moment .
The best  is  our minds are the true gift of keeping our memories.  

By Magdelene van den Oetelaar This is a memory of my parent’s Christmas nativity set.  It is coloured pencils. It was done this past winter.

This is a memory of my friend Don. He helped me build the wheels so I could build this wagon. Don passed away last year. The wagon was built the previous year.

Yes the pink flowers are growing out of boots!