Catharsis

Catharsis is part of a series of paintings called Not One Without Water. This comes from the quote by W H Auden 'Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.' For me these paintings are a way of expressing how important water is to us. How beautiful it is in its many guises and how, in some parts of the world we treat it like a renewable commodity, disrespecting it, polluting it and wasting it. In other parts of the world its scarcity is terrifyingly brutal.

In dramatic washes of watercolours each translucent layer captures the essence of emotional release and renewal, immersing the viewers in a journey of inner cleansing and tranquility.