PRIVATE PARADISE

2025
Oil on Canvas
160 x 160 cm
63 x 63 inches

ABOUT THE WORK

The series Afternoon in Paradise begins in the suspended heat of Mallarmé’s L’Après-midi d’un faune (1876), where a faun wakes from an afternoon dream unable to tell whether the figures he desired were real or imagined: “Ai-je aimé un rêve?” Did I love a dream?

Shortlisted for the Well Hung Gallery Painter’s Prize, London, 2026.