There's a moment in the week, usually Friday around 6:30pm, where you step through the front door and remember you have a body again. Where you exhale like you’re blowing candles out on a cake. 

This is where your frazzled nervous system starts to unwind and regulate. The walls sit around you like protective arms.

This is where art matters.

The Sculpture Lounge near Holmfirth will be hosting their annual winter showcase over the last two weekends in November, and I will have new oil paintings, some brand new prints and greetings cards featured in the show.

I painted NIMBY in December 2020, after we had the first snow of the winter. It made the extraordinary turbines look even more magical against the striking whited-out landscape.

Sundown in Isolation and Edge are the two paintings that will be touring the UK as part of the biennial New Light Art Prize exhibition 2020-21.

There's something so voluptuous and immersive in the texture of the buttery paint, the heady, intoxicating aroma of linseed oil and turpentine...