This painting is quite a peculiar attempt to make sense of the processes involved of being an artist. At root, this multicoloured Jacob’s ladder of a staircase was a way for me to express a metaphor that connected the specific and corporeal experiences of daily life to more universal and spiritual ideas investigated in the studio of the mind. The investigations that take place in an artists' workplace are not possible without experiences that come out of the soup of the everyday in life. Like Jacob’s vision, this painting came to me in the hypnagogic state between sleep and waking where imagery from my subconscious interwove with the geography of a real place, namely home, of a smallholding in the Sussex landscape of South East England, mixed in with some quite Japanese influenced trees and pavilion.