Anita Schep

“Art is not about the expression of talent or the making of pretty things. It is about the preservation and containment of the soul. It is about arresting life and making it available for contemplation.”
– Thomas Moore.

For me, art-making is a truly spiritual experience. I am transported to another world, of fluid oil paint, turps fumes, and the physicality of moving a brush across a blank canvas, transforming it into a vision of another place. I am a finite creator; creating with what has already been created. Whilst I cannot envision anything essentially new, I can at least have a new way of seeing old things.