From the StudioEntry No. 013 min read
The first painting after Lockdown
A couple under an umbrella, a grey English afternoon, and the moment art came back into my life as something I could not live without.
Walking in the Rain was the first painting I had done in years. I had not picked up a brush properly since my sister's diagnosis. I chose a dull photograph of a couple under an umbrella, walked into my studio, and converted it to black and white in my head. Then I painted what I saw in my mind, not what was in the picture.
It was Lockdown. I had nowhere to be. The painting saved my life.
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