This painting grew directly from my visit to Salvador Dalí’s home earlier this year - a place that feels less like a house and more like a portal into another way of seeing. Walking through those rooms with my children, I became increasingly aware that it wasn’t only Dalí’s world we were walking through, but Gala’s too.

It was Gala who designed the kitchen cabinets, and many of the artworks throughout the house were hers. That discovery stayed with me - the quiet but powerful presence of her creativity woven into the fabric of everyday life. Dalí often painted her as an empress, his muse and source of creative energy, but being there made me feel her influence in a much more grounded, lived way.

In Gala’s Dream, I wanted to honour that balance - the intimacy of shared creative life, and the way love and imagination can shape a world together. The scene is not a literal depiction of their home, but a reimagining of its spirit: part memory, part myth, part dream.

It’s a painting about creative partnership, influence, and the subtle power of a woman whose vision quietly transformed everything around her.