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The thing about titles...is that they can come to mean more over time. And that passage of time and reflection can hold more value, for me at least, and hopefully for the viewer as well. My latest work, "Beneath the Waves" is a short series of paintings inspired by a swimming holiday I had in Greece in June. I swam long long swims every blue sky day in the turquoise waters around the Ionian Islands. Heaven for me. I took an underwater camera and became fascinated by the fragment our of boat, Mowlgi, that I could see underwater.. Its mass, its shape and its contrast to the tiny human forms of my fellow swimmers. As it happened on the last day I found myself in a local hospital with a burst appendix and needed emergency surgery. This is six weeks ago now and I am fit and well again. The title..."Beneath the Waves" speaks not only of the life I saw in the water, and beneath the surface,.....but the joy I feel upon recovery. The body is an amazing thing - it wants to be well - it wants to be healthy - it wants to be happy...And from beneath the waves, from the darkness of the scary hospital time I have come back to the surface with an even deeper appreciation of life. How could I not?
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