He mused: “A lot of the time, people don’t like heavy or dark art, but I’ve always found the beauty in dark and heavy images, even when it comes to photography as well. Sometimes, you paint something really heavy and you feel like you’ve run a marathon. Painting is not relaxing – it’s actually really intense. But, once you finish it, you feel really, really good.”
Painting is “a really good reminder of why you never should stop doing things, and why you never should say, ‘This is good, I’m done.’ I started during COVID-19, and then I sort of didn’t stop. It has been four and a half years, and I can see how much it has improved. When I’m 55 or 60, I might be able to paint properly.”
There are parallels to be drawn between his journey as a painter and his journey as a chef.
