Oil on stretched canvas, ready to hang.

Signed on the back.

The last few months have been unimaginably hard on so many people. Especially so for all the empaths who absorb all the pain around them like a sponge. Being an empath is kind of like having a superpower, and in times like these it's easy to lose sight of the benefits. Feeling the collective pain of the people you love, or a nation or the entire planet can be agonising and I find myself wishing I could turn it off.

So I created Luther: a little underworld spirit who could carry it for me, and for you.

Im always inspired by the expressive subtleties of emotion in the faces of animals, especially in Sphynx cats because they have no further to hide under.