The Day I Met You

Acrylic on canvas, framed

47cm x 57cm

2025

£1200

Limited edition prints:

46.5cm x 56.5cm (image size 41.5cm x 51.5cm with 2.5cm border), unframed. Giclee print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper with archival inks, edition of 30, hand-signed and numbered. £200 excluding postage and packaging.

I painted this tree after a walk on Shipley Glen, where I came across a lone birch tree growing straight out of the rock. It stopped me in my tracks. It was quiet, striking and full of presence.

I rarely know why I paint something the way I do. Often, it feels like my subconscious is doing the choosing. However, when I looked at this finished piece, the title came to me immediately.

Meeting that tree marked a shift in how I saw, how I painted and perhaps how I even understood myself. Something quietly changed that day.