Komorebi

Acrylic on wooden board
29cm x 42cm
2020

Original painting + prints available for sale at the Survival Techniques shop

木漏れ日 or komorebi is a Japanese word that means sunlight streaming through the trees.

Ubuntu

Acrylic on wooden board
29cm x 42cm
2020

Original painting + prints available for sale at the Survival Techniques shop

Ubuntu is a Nguni Bantu word that is often translated as 'humanity towards others'.

Desmond Tutu said: 'A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, based from a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.’

Sonder

Acrylic on wooden board
29cm x 42cm
2020

Original painting + prints available for sale at the Survival Techniques shop

Sonder is an English word that describes the realisation that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you.

Mångata

Acrylic on wooden board
29cm x 42cm
2020

Original painting + prints available for sale at the Survival Techniques shop

Mångata is a Swedish word that means the glimmering, road-like reflection that the moon creates on water.