Jarvis Boyland's work contemplates the past to help us question how we romanticize it. His figurative paintings and drawings conjure retro environments that evoke the 1970s. Through his idyllic color palette and delicate rendering of textiles and flesh, Boyland offers moments of personal reconciliation that traverse time. Jarvis Boyland's palette abounds with bright, vivid hues. A deft colourist, he relishes the moods conjured by pinks, periwinkles, reds, blues. When he renders flesh, he gives it a luminous, almost iridescent quality, which derives in part from his approach to building up the surface of the canvas. His sensitively rendered portraits of people from his community, often situated in fictitious domestic environments, consider gender and intimacy.