MICHAEL HEMPSTEAD

I have drawn since I was a child. I use drawing to make sense of the World. Drawing…..Metamorphoses…….into Painting.

I owe a great deal to Ovid’s wonderful stories. I try to paint Now, my Now, my view from the Promontary of Now; but sometimes I find it easier and clearer to paint Now via the prism of Ancient Greek Myths. Old and New, Then and Now, come together.

I have lived in Cyprus and Italy and visited the sites of many Myths, both physically and in my own mind. I don’t pretend to have any Answers in an Age of Questions, but perhaps my journey may help others on theirs.