"Two Hearts" by Nina Couser - Acrylic on Paper - 10cm x 10cm When I was a little child, I would spend hours and hours, drawing and writing, writing and drawing. The time would vanish as I disappeared into a world of my own. Gradually my small drawings became larger oil paintings, exhibited at school, and later bought by friends and colleagues. My writing became short stories and poetry which sometimes won prizes. When life as an adult began, there seemed to be less hours to dive into. Real life was work in every sense, and yet I always made time to create and send newsy letters home. As the years went by however, my artworks became small doodles once more and the gaps between the written word grew further apart. Years later, when my father, himself a prolific painter and writer, died in 2021, I pulled out my old sketch pad and started painting again. Art seemed the perfect way to speak my grief aloud and find a way to keep dad close....