People and the Sea, Across History and Mythology

At the end of 2020 I took up painting once more. Aside from the odd piece here or there, this was the first consistent effort at this since I was around thirteen or so. In part it had been enabled by the repeated Covid lockdowns which took away all those day-to-day pursuits which had been a regular part of life for so long. Faced with so much newly-found free time I once again picked up my brushes. I had increasingly felt that it is important to try and be as well-rounded as possible across different areas of life and that it is good to be engaged in some sort of creative endeavour. At the time I was working in academia, an environment in which it is all too easy to become totally absorbed in the ‘life of the mind’ and forget that life is, and indeed must be, physical and practical.