Guim Tió

“I’ve gone on many other journeys under my own steam—hiking trips, canoe trips, other cycling trips—and whenever conditions turn hostile I always feel very, very small. I look at Guim Tio’s paintings, their daunting immensities, their empty planes, their stoic mountain ranges, their wide oblivious horizons, and I point to the tiny, powerless, insignificant figure barely visible on a broad, heedless canvas, and I think: that’s me.”
Extract from the essay “Big Space, Little Person” by Lionel Shriver.