'Little Secret' its in the space between sweetness and restraint. The impasto is layered with patience, each scalloped mark set down on its own, yet the whole thing stays soft and unhurried. It gathers the way pastel light pools at the end of an afternoon, gentle and a little nostalgic. The palette stays tender but never saccharine: blush, butter yellow, sage and dusty blue, with small flecks of burgundy and navy surfacing to keep it honest. There's a quiet pleasure in watching hundreds of separate gestures settle into one calm field of colour. Because the paint is so physical, the surface shifts as the day moves across it, so the work never quite holds still. It lives in the room with you.