Part of the 'Seeing Sounds: moments visualised through music' collection. A body of work where each piece is inspired by a different song. Worked on whilst listening to the music and channelling the emotions from it, each painting shows how I view, perceive and feel every individual song, creating visual representations of each track using paint on canvas.

Inspired by 'Finally' by Kings of Tomorrow.

This track holds me, makes me feel safe and always really emotional. It was a time where I felt lost and unsure of who I was, what I wanted and where I should be in life. I was in a relationship that I knew wasn’t right but I was too scared to end it. I’d known Marcel for a while and I felt like anything could happen when I was with him, that I could do anything and be anyone. It was a heady feeling and once I’d opened my mind and my heart, that was it - bam, I knew I was deeply in love with him.

The thing with Marcel was that even though it was exciting and hedonistic, I always felt safe and cared for. That’s what this painting means to me - there’s a confidence and vibrancy but you feel held, like there’s a safety net below you, allowing you to do and try anything with the comfort and safety of someone who cares for you and will always be there to catch you if you fall.

This song makes me think of an eternal summer, of dancing with abandonment and feeling the beat and the bassline in vibrant pulsing colours. The lyrics sum up exactly how I felt....’I had a dream my trip would end up at you, and now I know paradise’. That is ultimately how I feel about Marcel, it was inevitable, there was something bigger than us at play. People got hurt and that was unfortunate but I would do it again 1000 times over because this was simply meant to be.