The Rest Series

Having had the great honour of painting the front cover of a friend’s daily devotional book, I was inspired by the process of slowing and quieting down in order to delve into a commission. I truly began to understand why the ocean has always drawn me in.

Why can we spend hours on end just watching the waves tumble in and drain back out?

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Why, during life’s hardest moments, do we always gravitated towards the therapeutic space of the beach?

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Why have all of life’s happiest occasions also occurred on the beach?

For some reason, the ocean has always called me.
I realised that the ocean teaches us that life is simultaneously...

calm and stormy
beautiful and dangerous
enticing but, at times, a scary place,

And through it, we learn to accept every season of life exactly as it is.

The ocean becomes
healing • meditative • therapy • soul-quenching • life-giving