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Travelling and nostalgia.
I generally despise travelling and I have a strong tendency towards homesickness but an interesting discovery has been made about leaving the regular workspace that makes uncomfortable travel, less so. I am currently travelling in Fiji, the home of my parents and I’ve come to realise one thing, the paintings that I produce away from home emanate a strange and intriguing feeling, that cannot be replicated at home. Perhaps it is the nostalgic and almost hazy feeling that my preferred travel medium, watercolours, gives off to the viewer. The transparent hues and loose brush strokes that produce a blurred, indistinct image, as if looking through a foggy lens, is made…