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Art is a great adventure

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Art will always be a great adventure. Painting is a mechanism for me to understand what it is like to be someone else, something else, somewhere else. My work is about stretching to understand, stretching towards the sun. The world is my studio, so is my dining room, living room and yard. A laboratory, and conservatory, where I experiment and practice, practice, practice.

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