The scene
Inspired by Finding Nemo (2003). Two small reef fish, a clownfish and a blue tang, swim among dark jagged rocks deep in the ocean towards a light that is very far away. Sharks and ghostly jellyfish wait in the gloom between them and it. It is a picture about hope in the dark: you do not have to see the end, you just keep swimming. The fish are real fish, not the film's characters.
The style
A soft watercolour and gouache painting, with deep ocean blues, a pale shaft of light from far above and the words set quietly in the dark water.
The inspiration
The idea is the line itself and how it gets people through hard weeks. There is no single painting behind this one; the look was built up in watercolour washes, draft by draft.
How it's made
I design each picture and refine it until it feels right, and I set the words myself. It's a print of a digital artwork in the style of a watercolour, not a hand-painted original. Each one carries my printed "Chapter & Scene" signature in the corner.