It is true in art and it is true in life. We humans can be funny things. We get stuck in our ways and become comfortable with them. Yes, we may not be reaching our potential or may find certain aspects of our situation less than satisfying, but if conditions are fundamentally okay (and sometimes even if they’re not) then we are loathe to change them. We like that routine, that certainty, the familiar. We fear what we don’t know, and because change is inherently an unknown qua

Up to this point, my main career has been journalism and, for 27 years, I worked as a news sub-editor on the London Evening Standard. A large part of my life has been spent in newsrooms; rushing towards deadlines, juggling a number of different decisions, and often making late changes against a background of noise and urgency. Throughout all this time, I’ve had a second passion: art. Specifically, painting. It has always called to me and made me question my primary choice of