About this artwork

Providence is a warm ethereal painting full of ghostly layers & grasses & wild carrot in tones of auburn, gold & soft pinks. The translucent layers create a mystical feeling which draws the eye in to look closer & the flowers pop with backlit light. It generates a feeling of comfort, safety & cosiness in a room interior.

‘Providence: -The care & guardianship coming from a deity. Guidance from a spiritual being bringing good’

This painting was inspired by my deep connection with intuition & some strange events which happened at the time of working on it. Throughout my life I have experienced moments of surreal calm & connection as if everything is one & a knowledge that there is more beyond ‘just us’. On many other occasions bizarre flukes of coincidence or strangeness have saved me from danger, & a few times, literally saved my life.

Now, I am not religious in any usual sense of the word. Having been brought up in a rigid ‘church’ environment, where power struggles & the egos of men wanting to control others dominated, I baulk at anything where people use faith as a path to dominance .

For me, there is definitely something beyond our own understanding, layers & parallels, mystery & otherness. I believe that every belief or faith in humanity is one & the same thing, no matter what an individual culture decides to name it. Not a reason to argue or war, more a reason to unite. Whatever you choose to call your beliefs they are all a giving over of ourselves to something higher, a knowledge that there is more than we can see or measure. I often use the terms ‘Nature’ or ‘The Universe’ as my way of expressing that veil of something beyond understanding.

This weekend, as I painted, it happened again & just reaffirmed that I have some sort of ‘guardian Angel’ keeping me from harm. A series of odd happenings, strange coincidences & sheer luck led to discovering a really dangerous fault… a hole opening up in our main gas supply, close to the pilot light, which within da