I paint the moment light opens a doorway to the sacred in the ordinary world.
Each painting hangs on your wall as that doorway, open for you to step through whenever your heart longs for stillness.
Magic lives in what we tend.
THE ATELIER COLLECTION
Most people walk past the doorways. On the lanes near my studio and on my own windowsill, the light opens a threshold into the sacred, and I stop there for as long as it stays open. That moment is what I paint, over weeks at the easel on large Belgian linen. Once it hangs in your home, the doorway stays open, ready for you to step through whenever your heart longs for stillness.
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STUDIES
This year, alongside the Atelier Collection, I'm learning a new way to paint the doorway before it closes. These studies are smaller originals, painted wet into wet in one sitting while the moment is still alive in me. Everything goes into the threshold where the sacred comes through, and the rest of the canvas is left to breathe, so you can see my hand in every stroke. The first ones arrive over the coming months, and the series closes when this year does.
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I have spent my life stopping for the moment a petal glows from within, or old Cotswold stone turns to gold as the afternoon draws to a close. That moment is a doorway to the sacred, and I paint it on linen so it stays open. Once you've stopped for it yourself, you start finding doorways everywhere, and the painting on your wall becomes your daily reminder of how to look.
FROM THE EASEL TO THE WALL
A minute at the easel, then the paintings in the kind of room they were made for.
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