The Festival Companion

The Festival Companion

Some portraits are really two portraits at once. This one began with a photograph taken a few years ago at a festival — a little chihuahua tucked safely on their owner’s lap, with a wash of rainbow hair falling behind them like a curtain of colour. It had that...
An Italian Summer, in Watercolour

An Italian Summer, in Watercolour

There’s a particular kind of heat you only find in an Italian summer — dry, golden, with the sound of water somewhere just out of sight. This painting came from exactly that. A few years ago I spent part of a summer in Tuscany, and one afternoon we found a...