“Painting is the ultimate intuitive process. It’s a fundamental part of who I am. My love for painting stems back to a specific childhood experience, the trauma of those first days at preschool, I didn’t transition well. The one thing that calmed me was painting. It was an instant warm feeling, like seeing a familiar face in a room full of strangers. The slow sloppy brush strokes, the smell of the paints, somehow made sense of the world.”