Clouds are excellent teachers, adapting their vaporous form to the weather in a perpetual state of emergence. Clouds embody the paradox of surrender – what appears as frailty is, in fact, a tremendous strength. And when things get too heavy, it rains, and the vapours that rise off the wet earth allow the clouds to start over.

This painting, Free, is also paradoxical. The pigments gathered from the earth are mixed with heavy, sticky linseed oil and reformed to represent airy motifs. The painting can be thought of as a meditation in itself, not just for what it depicts but for how it came to be, as an art object, changing form as an act of creative surrender.

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