Glass Bambi

Oil and acrylic on canvas

40cm × 40 cm

Glass Bambi is inspired by childhood memories of delicate glass deer ornaments often found in a grandmother’s home. The way light passes through the glass reflects themes of nostalgia, fragility, and memory.

Drawing on the kitsch aesthetic of mid-20th-century decorative objects, this painting explores how vintage ornaments become emotional anchors to the past. Glass animals—once symbols of comfort and hope in domestic spaces—are reimagined here as a metaphor for the beauty and vulnerability of remembrance.

The deer, or Bambi, symbolises purity and gentleness, while the use of glass gives it an almost immaterial quality, as if it exists more as a memory than a solid presence—something precious, fleeting, and easily lost.