“I love to be here is painted from a quiet corner of my own garden. Every summer the sunflowers return on their own — they sow themselves here year after year, as if they’ve decided this place belongs to them. The red bird visits often, settling among the yellow blooms with a kind of gentle trust. Nothing in this scene is arranged: the bowl, the scattered leaves, the soft light — it’s simply how the garden holds itself when I pause long enough to notice it.

I painted this moment because it feels like home to me. A small, ordinary place that carries its own warmth and stillness. It is like the bird says too- this is where I love to be.”