In 2020, during the early days of the Covid pandemic, I began

making paintings of subjects close to home – myself, my husband

and a few friends. Picking up that thread some years later, I’ve

been painting from photographs of geographically far-flung friends

and family, and one seaside couple I saw but never met.

In these works, I wanted, above all, to make an interesting

painting, while also catching something of the person’s

animating spark.