Sian Torrington

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Our darkest rooms

Our darkest rooms

One of the things I've noticed the most is how Christchurch has tidied things up.

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Versaille

Versaille

Often it feels to me as making things is a process which happens in the dark.

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Starry skies live in your pavement paintings

Starry skies live in your pavement paintings

I am a romantic. I still believe there is beauty everywhere

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Thinking / feeling my way in

Thinking / feeling my way in

"What abstract painting can do better than anything else is [evoke] that sense of recognition that's indefinite yet ecstatic at the same time. It's getting to the emotional underpinning that we all share, that is the substitute for the common or religious belief. I believe abstraction can do that."