Painting is the Antidote

Sometimes a motif lets me luxuriate in it. I mix the pigment, egg and water and match the colour that I see and lose myself in the painting. Once upon a time I had a pink bedroom, bubble gum pink, like Christo’s ‘SURROUNDED ISLANDS, not dissimilar to the colour of the walls of the exterior of the house we live in now I once read that they painted prison rooms pink to calm the prisoners. Pink is my calming colour and painting this made me happy.

“My heart is like a singing bird.” — Christina Rossetti, egg tempera on panel, 25 x 26cm, May 2023