Artist: Deborah Sheehy

Medium: Acrylic on canvas board

Dimensions: 5” x 7”

Year: 2026

When I was a child I suffered from night terrors and was afraid of the dark. My vivid imagination would conjure all kinds of creatures from the slightest sound or shaft of light, and I would cower under my duvet until sleep eventually took me.

However, my relationship with night time is very different as an adult. Now it is a quiet refuge, a time of silent meditation after the activity, noise and interactions of the day. Perhaps that’s why so many of my paintings feature stars and the night sky. Because now I associate the night with silence, and the space to think, hence the title of this little artwork.