I paint because this is how I navigate the world.

I absorb the visual, allow it to ferment, and then channel it into a two dimensional plane. It is the reduction that makes the world understandable. The realignment of nature's colours with artist's colours, the remembered landscape and the remembered emotion reproduced and ordered.

Sometimes I hold an image in my head for years, sketch it obsessively and then allow myself to paint it. The physical experience of painting it; the stretch of posture, the sweep of arm, the grinding of pigment into canvas is like a ritual.

Sally-Anne Adams

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