Peacekeeper is the guardian of the new world. She plays an important role in the narrative of Sanctuary. When I began painting her in the February of 2016 my life was  on a downward spiral. I wasn’t coping at home and with big family dramas on a constant loop. My Aunty was trying to be as helpful as she could and became a great inspiration to me as she began to play the role of peacekeeper between me and my family. As my Aunty has a slight obsession with angels I thought it best that the guardian and peacekeeper be an angel. In the world of Sanctuary, the Peacekeeper is the one that created and protects the world with her mighty wings.

After several months of stress and the biggest art block of my life so far, I decided to go back to the start, before the block began and recreate a piece that I had to destroy. This is my inner world, a place where I can go to inside myself to calm down and create new ideas, with the difficulties that are added onto my life because of my Aspergers’ Syndrome it is a nice relief to disappear into this world when the real one simply becomes too much, the idea came from a life long obsession fairytales and fantasy world’s such as, J. M. Barrie's Neverland, and similar works. The waves in the piece are transpositions of Katsushika Hokusai’s The Great Wave off of Kanagawa. 

This raises many religious questions such as does Sanctuary have a God? or many gods? Or is it a Godless land? I’m sure there would be a God, due to my belief in creationism, but the question still stands: Who would the God/Gods of the new world be??