Hung second from the left in a series of five untitled pieces by the artist, suspended unframed above the skylight of the gallery this painting pays homage to the centuries old tradition of Chinese landscape paintings. The scale is vast, both physical and metaphysical, encompassing heaven and earth as places and concepts.

We are presented with distant mountains impressionisticly rendered in nebulous hues of blue, magenta, and mauve in an echo of the clouds above. The sky between the central peaks is white creating a perspectival effect - perhaps a muted solar. Below, lush valleys intersected by rivers are rendered with swirling bravado - perhaps a nod to the artist's past as a calligrapher.

As we ascend, washes of ultramarine draw us up to the cloudscape in its chromatic mirroring of the mountains and the valleys.

The exquisite dappling effect applied to both land and air in a myriad of colours give the work a vibrant, frenetic almost supernatural energy to contrast with the sedate and meditative backdrop. Its a painting that creates opposing emotions whilst simultaneously blending them. The temporal and the cosmic in reciprocal imitation.

This work is part of a larger exhibition called 'Mirrors of the Soul - Illusions of Universal Identity' hosted at the Peggy Jay Gallery at Burgh House in London from 29 April to 6 May 2025.