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When I was very young, I used art to distract me from… well, life. Painting was my escape from reality. Art has always offered me a safe space to be me, on my own, and to travel freely in my thoughts and dreams.
This painting was a reminder that when times are difficult, and we may need a moment for ourselves to just be, we need to create a distraction. The dark green colours were borrowed from the rocks covered in seaweed that I see each day on the coast of Portugal. They are half here, half in the ocean. Present but also hidden away. You can see parts of them but never all of them.