In the Face of Adversity
Ink painted with a stick on paper
860 x 660
It took me a while to understand this painting. To be truthful I don’t think I fully do yet. So naming it was really really hard. Painted just after the March Floods in 2022, directly after the two years of Covid lock downs, the words ‘In the Face of Adversity’ really hit home. It’s the feeling you get when looking at this painting, how natural she sits there with a potential life threatening situation. How she has made peace with it. There is surrender, there is a sense of complete calmness, and there is nothing else in that moment that matters. It’s been a tough couple of years for everyone, incredibly emotional, trying and exhausting. But through it all if you could find your place of peace and just know that it really is going to be found internally rather than externally, then somehow you could get through the next day. Sending lots of love out to everyone who’s feeling the hurt from the floods and the state of the humanity in general.
Ink painted with a stick on paper
860 x 660
It took me a while to understand this painting. To be truthful I don’t think I fully do yet. So naming it was really really hard. Painted just after the March Floods in 2022, directly after the two years of Covid lock downs, the words ‘In the Face of Adversity’ really hit home. It’s the feeling you get when looking at this painting, how natural she sits there with a potential life threatening situation. How she has made peace with it. There is surrender, there is a sense of complete calmness, and there is nothing else in that moment that matters. It’s been a tough couple of years for everyone, incredibly emotional, trying and exhausting. But through it all if you could find your place of peace and just know that it really is going to be found internally rather than externally, then somehow you could get through the next day. Sending lots of love out to everyone who’s feeling the hurt from the floods and the state of the humanity in general.
Ink painted with a stick on paper
860 x 660
It took me a while to understand this painting. To be truthful I don’t think I fully do yet. So naming it was really really hard. Painted just after the March Floods in 2022, directly after the two years of Covid lock downs, the words ‘In the Face of Adversity’ really hit home. It’s the feeling you get when looking at this painting, how natural she sits there with a potential life threatening situation. How she has made peace with it. There is surrender, there is a sense of complete calmness, and there is nothing else in that moment that matters. It’s been a tough couple of years for everyone, incredibly emotional, trying and exhausting. But through it all if you could find your place of peace and just know that it really is going to be found internally rather than externally, then somehow you could get through the next day. Sending lots of love out to everyone who’s feeling the hurt from the floods and the state of the humanity in general.