Two Moons Above the Valley is an exhibition rooted in the artist’s deep and abiding relationship with the natural world. A relationship that is at once personal and universal, intimate and vast. The works gathered here emerge from a practice of romantic realism, in which landscape is not rendered but remembered; not documented but felt. Each painting is an act of abstraction toward memory, inviting the viewer to locate something of themselves within the image, and in doing so, to recognise the fundamental interconnectedness of all human experience.
The show holds two truths simultaneously: the beauty and the difficulty of being alive. It does not look away from the tumult of our current world; from war, tension and the fractures running through the human race but it refuses to be consumed by them. Instead, it draws on Buddhist philosophy as a quiet, grounding force: the understanding that everything is as it should be, that nature follows its own law, that all things are in constant flux and forever changing. Within that impermanence lives serenity, peace and extraordinary beauty. Light and ephemerality are the true subjects of these works. The landscape is diffused, the horizon dissolved, the boundary between sky and sea, between day and night, between the earthly and the infinite, deliberately collapsed. What remains is pure experience; the sensation of awe, of expansion, of stillness. This is the gift the practice gives the artist and it is the gift the artist hopes to transmit to the viewer. Not as idea, but as feeling, carried through the organic vibration of the natural pigments themselves. Sourced from soils, rocks, and plants across three continents (Southern Africa, Bali, France) these materials are not merely aesthetic choices. They are alive. Their molecular structure, their earthly origin, their geographic memory, all become part of the transmission from canvas to room to life.
Two Moons Above the Valley is an offering. A homage and a reverence for this world and a reminder of its beauty.
