Wakefield artist to put ‘eccentric’ dad’s ashes in painting
An artist who intends to add her father’s ashes to a painting says she wants to help others “immortalize” their loved ones in art.
Lanson Moore, 38, from Wakefield, said she had long thought about making a piece of art for her father, Kev, who died from lymphoma in December 2016.
Ms Moore said making the work had been a “healing” process.
She has secured funding from Arts Council England to work on 10 commissions for bereaved families.
The full-time artist and mother-of-one said of her father: “I felt like he was on the journey with me. He always supported my art.”
Ms Moore has called the work “Abu in Port Lligat”. Abu is short for Abuelo – grandfather in Spanish.
“He wanted me to paint this picture for him to put on his wall. He wanted me to do a big mural of one of his favorite landscapes, which is Port Lligat by Salvador Dali,” said Ms Moore.
“My dad loved Spain and he loved going off the beaten track and this is where Dali actually lived for most of the later part of his life.”
Ms Moore said her father was “such a character”, adding he was “quite expressive and eccentric”.
She consulted carefully with her family to ensure she got the painting just right.
“I’m an abstract artist, so my gut instinct was always to produce an abstract piece of art,” she said.
The final result is a large painting of pink, red, blue, and yellow mountains, the tops of which are marked with a sparkling gold line.
Her father’s ashes are being embedded into the line.
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