Recently, I’ve been moving my figures out of the bedrooms and intimate spaces they’ve occupied into landscapes. This piece is in spired by a lyric from the Jewel's song 'Jupiter'. I spent much of my art-making teens listening to her beautiful music. This song is so free and celebratory. 
 
I’ve enjoyed playing with the fantastical elements of these new landscape biomes, drawing on my love of the abstract and the realms of science fiction to inspire me. 
 
With this painting I wanted to explore what would be sacred on an alien world. What laws of nature would we be subject to and what might they stir within us? 
 
This is the first of a series using iridescent pearl paint to pick out the figure. I wanted him to have an ethereal quality, as if he is caught between two worlds. Substantial yet fleeting, already half somewhere else. I’m particularly fond of the palette on this one. 
 
An abstract and colourful male figurative landscape.