Not long ago it clicked for me that not everyone is creative… I Naively thought that people were being lazy when explaining “I can’t” when it comes to thinking outside the box. Soon after I made a painting about an image that comes to mind when listening to a song which sparked discussion about what people see in their minds. I then learnt about hyperphantasia; the genetic trait to vividly see images as your hearts content in your imagination, and the opposite, aphantasia where someone struggles to create an image. I then began asking people around me what they would imagine if they imagined up an apple. I also knew one who doesn’t picture anything at all, the opposite of me.

So from that thought I wanted to visualise this for other people through art, this is how it ended up. The artwork sold quite soon after completing it through an online gallery that eventually shut down. I also painted the background at a different pace to the foreground and used more oil on the foreground which caused a minor amount of cracking, this isn’t due to age but due to process and the idea of how artworks form their cracks will be a new concept for a future artwork.

This artwork is oil based, is one of my hand-stretched ones and sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity.