These canvasses from 2013 signaled the start of my creative explosion. It was the first time since school that I painted just for myself. It took for me to fall down a hole on holiday in Tenerife to finally get a break from corporate and some desperately needed headspace.

I remember sitting in the garden in the sunshine and just allowing myself to be in the flow. For a total control freak it actually felt quite terrifying at first. But then something magical happened. The more that I let go of the need to know where it was going, the painting was free to just emerge.

All of the sketches I had ever made in notebooks (that were also filled with the same old unfulfilled dreams) started flooding back into my memory as if they had been waiting all along for me to bring them to life. It was a truly magical time. I declared to myself and the universe that this is what I wanted my life to be like every day and 3 years later that dream has now come true.

I now paint for personal pleasure and am available for commissions.

Acrylic on canvass and paper