The Work
...A Warmth Rose Up is a semi-abstract digital landscape that emerged through an intuitive, process-led approach. Built through layered colour and soft transitions, the piece moves from a calm, open sky into a richly textured foreground, evoking warmth, density, and gentle upward movement.
The Making
This artwork began without a fixed intention - a way of working that is central to my practice. Rather than planning an outcome, I allow intuition to guide early decisions, responding to colour, texture, and emerging forms as they appear.
As the work developed, it slowly revealed itself as a landscape. This was something I initially resisted, as it sits outside the styles I usually explore when digitally painting. That resistance, however, became part of the process itself. By allowing the piece to take its own direction, I found a sense of ease and enjoyment in the making that wasn't immediately apparent at the start.
Letting Go and Regaining Control
There were moments during the process where letting go became too much - when the work risked losing coherence - and control had to be reintroduced. This back-and-forth between freedom and restraint is a familiar negation in my work, and one that ultimately shapes the final form.
The finished piece reflects that balance: order emerging from density, calm sitting above intensity, warmth rising rather than overwhelming.
In Context
...A Warmth Rose Up does not represent a specific location, yet it evokes the felling of somewhere known, shaped as much by memory as by observation. Rather than setting out to make a landscape, the image emerged gradually through the process itself, guided by instinctive decisions and quiet adjustments along the way the way. The work leaves space for individual interpretation, offering a sense of place that is felt rather than defined.