Time experienced, embodied and pictured is the theme of Lisa Milroy’s exhibition Time and Time Again, currently on display at Finchley’s artsdepot.

The work spans ten years of the still life artist’s work, in which she has taken inspiration from everyday objects, memories and places she has travelled to.

Lisa says the element of time is central to her experience of still life painting, in terms of the time it takes to make a painting, the time involved in looking at a painting, whether it is in progress or finished, and embodying time materially in paint.

“Red Vase was painted slowly,” says Lisa. “This painting took me several weeks to complete. Yet when I look at it, the impact is immediate, the painting hits me all at once.

“Conversely, Japanese Print, a large painting of a cut-up Japanese print, was painted quickly in a matter of days, but getting the measure of it takes a while. Looking unfolds at a slower, more textured pace.”

Lisa, who was born in Canada, but now lives in London, has been interested in still life painting for more than 30 years.

She says travel has always played a great part in her work, and among the places that have inspired her is Japan.

Her work Geishas in Motion shows segments of film strips in which a geisha appears in a number of activities, for example a sneeze, a short event, and skipping, which can go on indefinitely.

Lisa says: “The activities here may all be clearly recognisable, but much is ambiguous, open to endless speculation. Has the skipping just begun, or is it about to come to an end?”

Lisa Milroy: Time and Time Again is at artsdepot, 5 Nether Street, Tally Ho Corner, North Finchley, until Sunday, May 23. Free admission. Details: 020 8369 5454, www.artsdepot.co.uk