Looking back at my work in Marseille, it is clear I was still in a similar mindset than when I was at Camberwell, my work isn't that far off from what it was like before. My first painting in Pictura studio, I bought myself a canvas, and all I knew is that I wanted to paint green swirls, maybe it was the fact I was surrounded by green swirly mountains? I just felt like painting with that particular colour. The work is based on a landscape but obviously ended up much more abstract and illusionary. I've always been very inspired by Joan Miro and the surrealists, and after having been to that exhibition in St.Remy on works of patients at the hospital, it put me in a very expressive mood when it came to painting. I enjoyed painting without really knowing what I was doing, what it was going to be, if it would make sense, I like to explore the paint and have fun in making sudden changes and spontaneous decisions to what I am doing. It was totally last minute to add four purple metamorphic 'faces' or circles to the painting. I like to leave this painting to the audience's imagination, many people have told me it looks 'creepy' or very drug infused which is quite amusing. I still consider it a landscape, immersed in an other worldy language/space
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