Puffin Love Forever – Empty Fridge

As I am sure you know, puffins mate for life, returning after a winter at sea to the exact burrow to reunite with the same mate. As a puffin lives for around 20 years this is quite a commitment.

This series of artworks is a celebration of long term love. Not the heady love of a new romance but the security, warmth and joy of being with the same person for years. When I made this artwork called Empty Fridge, I was thinking about the small things that couples do for each other that keep the love going. In this case when one puffin remembers there’s nothing in the fridge and brings home dinner.

BUT and this is an important ‘but’ I believe that artworks are imbued with meaning by the viewer, so if you had a different interpretation then that meaning is this artwork’s too!