On Violet and the Slowing of Time
Violet is the colour I return to when something needs to settle. Not to disappear — to settle. There is a difference. Disappearing is avoidance. Settling is arrival.
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The Journal
Notes from the Studio
Reflections on painting, space, the nervous system, and the quiet thinking that lives between the works.
Why I Paint Before I Think
There is a particular quality of early morning that I have learned to protect. Before the phone, before the emails, before the plans for the day have fully formed — there is a window of about forty minutes in which the body knows things the mind has not yet named. This is when I paint.
I used to think discipline meant sitting down to work whether you felt like it or not. I have since learned that discipline, for me, means protecting the conditions under which the best work can come through. That means silence. That means the body first.
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What Collectors Don't Tell You
People always describe art purchases in terms of the moment of buying. What they rarely talk about is the years of living with a piece — and what it does to you slowly, quietly, invisibly.
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ASMR and the Body That Forgets to Rest
The nervous system does not understand urgency as a temporary state. Once urgency becomes a way of living, the body stops recognising rest as safe. ASMR, at its best, is a gentle re-introduction.
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The Space Between Paintings
I used to feel guilty about the days when nothing gets made. I have come to understand that these days are part of the work — that the empty canvas is not absence but preparation.
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On Hanging Art at Eye Level
Most people hang art too high. This is not an aesthetic error — it is a relational one. A painting hung at eye level meets you. A painting hung above your head is simply overhead.
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Gold Leaf and the Quality of Warmth
Gold leaf does something no paint can replicate: it moves with light. A room changes throughout the day, and a painting with gold changes with it — never the same twice, never static.
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