SAUDADE

Saudade - Portuguese expression for those feelings of longing, immortalised in Chris Rea's tribute to Ayrton Senna.  Senna's intensity and passion for life and competition were immediately apparent, a physical presence, for every one of us fortunate enough to actually meet him.  From the earliest F1 days with Toleman and then Peter Warr's Lotus, through the McLaren years, then the move to Williams and that dark day in May 1994.  My late brother Steve had many of my original signed Ayrton Senna sketches.  I think he would have liked this painting and it is dedicated to his memory as well...