INSIDE/OUTSIDE, September 2025

I am always more relaxed when I paint men. There is less baggage about how they look. I just paint what I see without worrying about what they'll think. I draw and paint my husband all the time. He is usually doing something else - watching TV, Duolingo, having a snooze.

For Inside/Outside, I asked him to sit and look at me. He is relaxed and open, the figure has weight, the cushions buckle where he sits. I think the painting is about our relationship as much as anything else.

The door was the main focus for me while I was painting. I really wanted to show the structure of that threshold. It's an ambivalent image in a way. You can see the garden and the doorway, but it's blocked by a thoughtful figure. It's not clear how you get past.

Acrylic on stone paper, 110 x 78cm