A lovely young couple came up to the studio this afternoon and bought this painting. I nearly cried as I wrapped it for them.
I was so emotional because K&W really saw the beauty and meaning in this work, an artwork which expresses my feelings about some of the most special private beautiful moments of my life.
This artwork, 'It was heavenly', is one of those ones which sux in a photograph. It's complex. Full of marks and layers and rawness. And the delicacy of the colour just can't be seen in a photograph, no matter how I tried. The colour you're seeing here looks muddy and heavy, but in life it's gentle and full of light and all sorts of blush pink, together with a silver on the bed which is calm and flickering and delightful, which is how I feel when my partner and I make love, especially when you add the earthy red of the h.
The text says:
It was heavenly.
So fcking heavenly.
I'm not talking about the stars.
When I touch you, I know I"m alive.
The symbols are a bed and two crowns. Because damn it, when we make love I feel hot like Queen Bey.
I never thought I could have a love like this. For a long time -for long years - after the trauma I went through, I never thought I would be able to have glorious beautiful connected loving warm hot sex ever again. But I found out that I could. Boy did I find out. As Esther Perel says, 'the greatest vengeance is to be the most happy you can be.'
I brought all of my raw past, all of the love, all of the passion I feel, all of the lighthearted fun I have with my partner, to this painting. It is one of the best I've done yet. It has to be seen in life to really be understood. I wish I could show it as it is to you, but also I'm kinda glad I can't. Because it means the painting gets to communicate it's private message properly only with people standing in front of it IRL.
And BTW, the reason for pink ain't fashion. It's the colour of our beautiful linen sheets that my partner's skin looks so divine against.
Thank you, K&W, for coming up to the studio, for seeing something special in my work. For deciding to make this artwork a part of your life. It was hard to let it go, but I'm so pleased it's gone to you. x