After reading the Thai edition of Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova which was fascinating and thought it would be an excellent idea for my Goddess collection. The Goddess is dreaming of her lover, Zeus the most powerful of the Greek gods, and he comes to her in the form of a swan.I wanted the painting to appear as a dream as if you were looking at someone having a vision and to wondering what is happening, is that a swan which is coming to take her or is it all just a dream. With influences from Lowry to Botticelli I love painting people, but I do not want to just paint portraits, I want my people to have a bit of character, a little of the night about them, coming from my dreams my imagination. I am an accomplished fine portrait artist but my real passion is in colour and how the arrangement of colour can produce a different emotional experience of art. I want original and striking paintings which draw the viewer in, which makes them stop…to then see more than the initial work form and colour.