The Night Garden (on going series 2024-present)
The Night Garden
The Night Garden is a series of works comprising landscapes, interior spaces, and figuration; an otherworldly environment that is as much real as it is mythical. The scenes, in varying degree of technicolor, radiate with uncanny skies, glowing bodies of water, and characters navigating these liminal moments. The shifting atmospheres hover between day and night, where dream logic and the unconscious play. The paintings include personal, historical, and mythological references drawing inspiration from film, solar events like Aurora Borealis, and science fiction.
The work focuses on themes of journey, connectivity, transcendence, and the profound joy of nature in all its mysteries. The imaginary world centers around a mountain range and dwellings nearby, however, maritime and art historical significance is also present. There are odes to Winslow Homer’s dramatic seascapes found in the painting ‘Night Gardeners.’ In ‘Mother of Dawn’ there’s an outpost structure echoing the one found in Homer's ‘Searchlight on Harbor Entrance, Santiago de Cuba, 1902.’ At the heart of these works is an exploration of the complexities of ephemerality, the everlasting, and our intimacy to nature.