The Canadian pianist, Glenn Gould, has been one of my heroes since I was a teenager. And his playing of the music of Bach has had a profound influence on my life. I have all of his recordings, all the books about him; and all the photographs. But since he died in 1982, the chance of discovering anything ”new” was slim. And then I had the idea of approaching Roz to see if somehow she could re-imagine him, see him through her “2020 eyes”, and create a painting for our age. This was going to be quite a challenge. Firstly, the subject was dead. Plus, Roz didn’t know much, if anything, about Glenn Gould. But she knew how important he was to me. And so she set about her research – examining endless photos of him, reading detailed accounts of his life, watching documentaries about him, and of course listening to him play Bach, in particular, The Goldberg Variations. The result? The painting has him seated at the piano, staring into the middle distance, as if contemplating the fragments of music that surround him, like clouds in a clear sky. It was once said by a critic that Glenn Gould was “not of this world”. Somehow, Roz has managed to catch and portray this other-worldliness. She’s captured his essence.