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Bomb It!

£2,500.00

This mixed-media canvas presents itself as a vivid collision of pop-cultural fragments, childlike imagery, and layered painterly gestures that straddle the line between chaos and intention. It’s an arresting work that demands close engagement, and it rewards viewers with an unfolding narrative of innocence, danger, and satire.

The upper register, dominated by the orange radiance, offers a surreal encounter: a delicate deer crowned with flowers bends toward a serpentine figure. This juxtaposition reads both as tender and precarious—a pastoral innocence confronted by something slippery, ambiguous, perhaps even threatening. The deer’s faint horns complicate its symbolism, suggesting duality: purity crossed with mischief. To the left, a diminutive, cartoonish figure reminiscent of Iron Man floats, half-parody and half-talisman, bringing pop iconography into what otherwise feels like a mythic woodland.

This mixed-media canvas presents itself as a vivid collision of pop-cultural fragments, childlike imagery, and layered painterly gestures that straddle the line between chaos and intention. It’s an arresting work that demands close engagement, and it rewards viewers with an unfolding narrative of innocence, danger, and satire.

The upper register, dominated by the orange radiance, offers a surreal encounter: a delicate deer crowned with flowers bends toward a serpentine figure. This juxtaposition reads both as tender and precarious—a pastoral innocence confronted by something slippery, ambiguous, perhaps even threatening. The deer’s faint horns complicate its symbolism, suggesting duality: purity crossed with mischief. To the left, a diminutive, cartoonish figure reminiscent of Iron Man floats, half-parody and half-talisman, bringing pop iconography into what otherwise feels like a mythic woodland.

The bottom panel flips the tone: a comical yet unsettling vignette of a wide-mouthed shark devouring a cheerful clownfish. The candy-colored palette undercuts the menace, creating a surreal tension between humor and violence. It nods toward consumer culture’s flattening of fear into entertainment, while simultaneously referencing children’s animation.

Throughout, the artist employs layering, erasure, and transparent washes to evoke a sense of palimpsest. Earlier gestures bleed through newer ones—half-erased florals, floating geometric forms, and hints of text—all suggesting memory, cultural oversaturation, and the impossibility of clean narratives in contemporary visual culture.

What’s most compelling is the deliberate lack of hierarchy: iconic figures coexist with gestural abstraction and folkish flora, forcing the eye to dart rather than settle. The work resists completion; its unfinished lines and exposed underpainting are not flaws but invitations—reminders of process, of art as perpetual becoming.