'Karesansui', oil paint on 3 sheets of acrylic Perspex with shimmering metallics creating constant shifts in light, opacity and reflection.

The title refers to a Japanese rock garden (枯山水, karesansui) or "dry landscape" garden, often called a zen garden. These suggest miniature stylised landscapes through carefully composed arrangements of rocks, water features, moss, pruned trees and bushes, and uses gravel or sand that is raked to represent ripples in water. They were intended to imitate the essence of nature, not its actual appearance, and to serve as an aid to meditation about the true meaning of existence.

Images of Mars, a once watery planet from the Perseverance rover and the effects of global warming were close in my mind in producing this barren landscape however.

69cm x 78cm

Weight 8kg