I'm Still Standing

If I’m honest, aspects of my life are feeling overwhelming and there are no solutions, which is making me even more anxious. So ballet and art are allowing me to escape and forget the things that are puncturing my brain just now.

I’ve explored black with the Vortex series and I have now moved on to grey. I mentioned in my last post that grey was inspiring me in many ways. Well, it also inspired my latest painting, entitled Ruined.

One of my favourite things in the world is castle ruins. I could wander around a ruined castle all day, every day. When I see castle ruins, I see not what has been destroyed, but what remains standing. To me, it represents utter defiance. Yes, you threw every cannon, every arrow, every battering ram you had at me, and yes you tore out the heart of me but you couldn't destroy all of me. That’s what castle ruins say to me. So this painting is inspired by defiance in all its forms.