a life:

transformed

A visit to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston changed my life. As the guard came in, exclaiming, ‘I haven’t even turned the lights on’, I had no way of knowing the impact that action would have. Like magic, El Jaleo by John Singer Sargent was lit up and its presence not to be denied. It literally took my breath away knocked me back across the room. I knew immediately, that while I had been creating all my life, my soul insisted I go home and pick up a paint brush. I did and I haven’t stopped yet.

I have since immersed myself in the act of painting and expressing myself through some of the most difficult times of my life, and the power was and continues to be undeniable.

I stepped away from the keyboard, the mouse and design, and stepped up to to the canvas and paper, translating the details nature and the small moments that make a full life.