Something Is Coming and It's Full of Summer

Something is coming and it's been growing since may.

It started in early may, when something shifted.

The light got longer, flowers started appearing everywhere — in the fields, along the roads, in the gardens I walk by with prince. I felt that familiar pull into the studio, the kind that makes it hard to think about anything else.

I started painting.

Not one piece.. several. All of them carrying the same feeling: summer. not the calendar date, but the energy of it. The warmth that sits heavy in the air. petals that seem almost too vivid to be real. The way sunshine changes everything it touches.

I've been working on these quietly, in that private space where paintings slowly find themselves. I don't always know what a piece is about until it's almost finished and that's been true here too. Each one has been revealing itself gradually, blooming in its own time.

And then I went to portugal.

Two weeks surrounded by places and trees and flowers I had never seen before. Colours I didn't have words for. The kind of beauty that doesn't ask permission, it just fills you up completely. I came home even more certain about what I’m making and why.

These paintings are going to be something special. The kind that changes the feeling of a room. full of light and warmth and that deep summer aliveness that's hard to put into words but impossible to miss once you feel it.

They're not finished yet but they're close.

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I can't wait to share these paintings with you.