My small watercolours usually take just a few hours to complete, sometimes spread over two days. Creating my larger watercolours, however, is an entirely different process—one that can take up to two weeks from beginning to end. Although I am not painting continuously during that time, I enter a kind of creative trance in which, from the initial spark of inspiration to the final brushstroke, the work is constantly on my mind and refuses to let go.

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