HERA

About this artwork

Hera is a painting about light and hope. This painting encourages the viewer to leave the shadowlands of depression and threat in which we have all dwelt for the past few months.. Shadows are shades, things we don't understand enforced by embedded primal fears, but for there to be shadows there must also be light. Initially I thought of physical areas in deep dense woodlands where the light would not reach as a metaphor for one's own psyche. I found light in the muted fells and moorlands of my beloved, beautiful Yorkshire an area which can at times be bleak and grey, but also resplendent and glorious just like life itself. Hera - a painting which embraces light and hope as we emerge into a brighter future.