PORTRAITS
These paintings celebrate the often underestimated significance of small actions. They are paintings not of the forest, but of the trees, inspired, in part, by the final line in David Mitchell's novel Cloud Atlas. In an imagined conversation with his father-in-law, who tells him that his life would amount to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean, Adam Ewing responds, "Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?"