ELEGY SERIES
These images were made at the threshold hour, that brief window at dusk when light withdraws for me. Each figure stands at the water's edge, as figures have always stood at water's edges, in contemplation of what surrounds them.
But what surrounds them has come undone. Structures that once held meaning float and hang and list in the mist. The world reflected in the water is identical to the world above it - and somehow it is not.
Elegy I
ELEGY I
The palette is the quietest of the four - amber and violet, the last warmth draining from the sky into the water below.
The figure in yellow stands on the dock, the only solid vertical in a composition that is otherwise all horizontal dissolve - water, mist, tree line, sky layered in receding bands of fading light.
The wireframe geometries are delicate here, almost tender - they haven't yet become wreckage. They float like thoughts, like questions, like the first signs of something not quite right.
The reflection below is perfect and undisturbed. The figure does not move. The light will be gone in minutes.
ELEGY I. 2026
Archival giclée print on Somerset Enhanced Velvet
Mounted on Aluminium Di-bond - museum grade
66 cm x 130 cm
Elegy series, image 1 of 4, Edition 1 of 10
Certificate of Authenticity - Artist signed
£4,000 Standalone piece
£14,000 Complete Elegy series (4 works)
Elegy II
ELEGY II
The rust-orange figure anchors the right of the frame, the dock beneath her a platform at the edge of what is knowable.
Behind her the reeds hold the last of the warm light. Before her the mist has thickened and within it the wireframe structures have grown more present - partial, half-submerged, tilting. The bokeh lights scattered across the water's surface are extraordinary ,small cold points of luminescence that should not be there, that have no natural source, that the water holds anyway alongside the reflection of everything else.
The tonality has cooled from Elegy I. The warmth is retreating to the edges. Something is settling.
ELEGY II. 2026
Archival giclée print on Somerset Enhanced Velvet
Mounted on Aluminium Di-bond - museum grade
66 cm x 130 cm
Elegy series, image 2 of 4, Edition 1 of 10
Certificate of Authenticity - Artist signed
£4,000 Standalone piece
£14,000 Complete Elegy series (4 works)
Elegy III
Elegy III
This is the coldest image of the four - a full immersion in blue-violet, the warmth entirely gone. The figure in indigo stands on rock rather than dock, more ancient, The structures here are no longer wireframe suggestions - they are concrete, angular, heavy, wrong. They rise from the water and hang above it simultaneously, defying the logic of weight.
The mist has thickened to the point where the far bank is almost erased. The reflection below mirrors the impossibility above with perfect fidelity.
The tonality carries the specific quality of grief that has moved past acute pain into something more permanent - a cold and settled knowing.
ELEGY III. 2026
Archival giclée print on Somerset Enhanced Velvet
Mounted on Aluminium Di-bond - museum grade
66 cm x 130 cm
Elegy series, image 3 of 4, Edition 1 of 10
Certificate of Authenticity - Artist signed
£4,000 Standalone piece
£14,000 Complete Elegy series (4 works)
Elegy IV
Elegy IV
Two figures now, standing together on rock at the water's edge - and yet the togetherness offers no relief. They face the same scene, feel the same loss, but cannot give it to each other or take it from each other.
Around them the chairs hang suspended in the last of the dusk light - domestic objects, objects of gathering and rest, now floating and inverted and reflected below in perfect symmetry.
The sky behind them is the most complex of the series - cloud and colour still doing what sky does, indifferent to what has happened beneath it. The water holds everything. The figures hold their ground. The chairs go on hanging.
ELEGY IV. 2026
Archival giclée print on Somerset Enhanced Velvet
Mounted on Aluminium Di-bond - museum grade
66 cm x 130 cm
Elegy series, image 4 of 4, Edition 1 of 10
Certificate of Authenticity - Artist signed
£4,000 Standalone piece
£14,000 Complete Elegy series (4 works)
These are not images of catastrophe. The catastrophe has already happened. What remains is the standing, the witnessing, the specific quality of light that falls on a world after it has been lost.
Elegy was made in grief and in love for what the natural world was, and in clear-eyed acknowledgement of what is being done to it.
