As with all the paintings in my Life Series, I had no idea where this one would take me. I put on Ludovico Einaudi and allowed myself to disappear into the music, letting the brush follow where it wanted to go.

There is something very freeing in that for me. My body may have its limitations, but when I paint this way I can lose myself completely. There is no plan and no possibility of going back. Each line, once painted, has to remain, and the next must find its way from what is already there, rather like life itself.

As the layers of Emergence began to build, I found myself travelling through those deep greens towards the light. I hadn’t set out to put it there, yet somehow the light appeared.

Light has found its way into so much of my work. Perhaps because, even through the more difficult times, I have always needed to believe there is something to move towards.

And so Emergence became, for me, a painting about hope. Not about erasing what has gone before, but allowing something new to grow from it.

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