I painted my crucifixion ‘ When Humanity destroys itself’ when I was struggling with the distress of the current wars in the world. I am not religious but somehow the imagery served it’s need for me by being both horrific and yet known and accepted. Feeling powerless, it was my reaction to the horrors of what man can do to man, horrors that I cannot understand and feel must not be ignored.

Later I was reading Khalil Gibran’s writing on slavery - that which we impose on our lives. In it, he met Liberty and he …’inquired, ‘‘Where are your children?’’ And Liberty, tearful and weak, gasped,’’One died crucified, another died mad, and the third one is not yet born.’’

I had to know who the madman was and have been enlightened by learning more of Friedrich Nietzsche to whom Liberty was referring. This moved me to paint ‘The madness of Nietzsche’ and ‘Not yet born - one of Liberty’s children’.

I am still feeling fully inspired by Khalil Gibran’s parables, prose and poetry. I have so much more to paint.