I created Echoes of Place as an abstract reflection on the way places remain in our memory even when their details begin to disappear. I was interested in that feeling of remembering a place not as a clear image, but through fragments of colour, light, texture and atmosphere. The painting is built around pale blue and powder blue tones, soft blush and dusty pink, muted lavender, ivory and warm grey, with deeper burgundy, red and reddish brown appearing through the lower layers. These colours create a balance between the cool, airy upper part of the painting and the richer, more intense passages below. I worked with layered brushstrokes, scraping, overlapping marks and exposed areas of canvas. The textured surface allows earlier layers to remain visible, creating a sense of depth and fragments emerging and disappearing at the same time. The forms suggest traces of architecture, reflections, distant structures and landscape, but I did not want to describe a specific place. Instead, I wanted to capture the emotional impression that remains after the actual image has faded. For me, Echoes of Place is about memory, atmosphere and the fragments of places that stay with us long after we have left them.