When I attended the sound healing yoga flow at Calm Collective studio, I was already thinking of a way to visualise my experience. After listening to the beautiful words of the yoga instructor, I kept coming back to the idea of metamorphosis - ‘emerging from the darkness of winter and breathing in spring’. I was heavily influenced by the colour palette of Damien Hirst’s ‘Deity’, and taking particular notice of the pattern of the butterfly wings.

There’s a definite sense of balance and feeling lighter after the class - I tried to reflect this through the interaction of bright colours and deeper tones. In the sound healing part of the class, there’s a strange but comforting feeling of the sound sweeping and swirling around you as you lie there, but not in a claustrophobic way - more in an airy, light, and comforting way. I envisioned this piece as a large painted mural, hence the large blocks of colours.