Thames Swimming

I love swimming outdoors. Doesn’t matter if it’s a pool, a river or the sea, I just love to swim.

A friend was visiting Oxford in August 2020. I couldn’t travel anywhere, so having new company on my doorstep was a huge treat. Every morning we swam in the river and went for breakfast. Then we went our separate ways for the day and I painted. We swam again around 6pm, and ate supper. Every day, on repeat, for 10 days.

And almost without realising it, the canvas I was working on over those ten days turned into a painting of the river I was swimming in, in all its glistening, muddy, glory.