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"'Hiraeth', a Welsh concept that has no direct English translation, has become an inexhaustible source of inspiration for my deeply personal artistic practice. The closest English equivalent is 'homesickness' but this translation is a poor substitute for the richly layered and nuanced meaning of hiraeth. It is an unattainable longing, a feeling of incompleteness for a time and place lost, or perhaps that never actually existed, a yearning for our roots or an ancestral home, a feeling of persistent dislocation from the rhythms of nature, exiled from the patch of earth we sprang from. My paintings emerge from these elusive perceptions."