Photo Collage, Acrylic and Resin on Wood Panel | 12×12 inches | 1⅞" Deep | 2023 | Nudibranch Series

Every once in a while the universe decides on a colour.

In Nudi Blue Crystal that colour is blue. Every shade, every temperature, every expression of blue that the natural world has ever produced — assembled in a single 12×12 inch panel that feels less like a collage and more like a discovery. Aquamarine crystals shoot upward like frozen water. A powder blue mushroom glows with the quiet luminosity of something bioluminescent. Tanzanite spires catch the light with the cool fire of a deep ocean at midnight. Sea fans spread their intricate architecture in teal and cobalt. Raw aqua crystal sits at the lower edge like a piece of the ocean floor made solid and permanent.

And in the centre of all that blue — one perfect, glorious, absolutely deliberate explosion of yellow.

The nudibranch. Sunshine yellow, covered in precise white-tipped tentacles arranged with a regularity that suggests intention, that suggests someone or something thought very carefully about exactly this combination of yellow against blue and decided — yes. This. Exactly this. The yellow that makes every blue around it more blue. The blue that makes the yellow more yellow. Nature's own colour theory, operating at a level of sophistication that no art school has ever quite managed to teach.

This is what nudibranchs do. They understand colour the way painters spend lifetimes trying to understand it — intuitively, completely, without effort or doubt. They simply are the right colour, in the right place, at the right intensity. Always.

Nudi Blue Crystal brings the nudibranch into conversation with crystals and fungi that share its chromatic obsession — blue beings from three different kingdoms of the natural world, assembled here as though they always belonged together, as though the universe has always been making this particular composition and simply needed someone to notice.

Created in a unique process combining photographic collage, hand-applied acrylic paint and a final layer of high-gloss resin, the surface has the depth and luminosity of something subaquatic — every element suspended beneath the glass-like finish as though glimpsed through perfectly clear water, preserved at the exact moment of their maximum beauty.

Part of the Nudibranch series — a body of work born from childlike wonder at a natural world so extravagant, so reckless in its beauty, that to look at it carefully is to feel something fundamental shift in your understanding of what is possible.

✦ Original, one-of-a-kind work ✦ Photo collage, acrylic and resin on wood panel ✦ 12 × 12 inches | 1⅞" deep ✦ Unframed — deep cradled panel, ready to hang ✦ 2023 ✦ Part of the Nudibranch series ✦ Free worldwide shipping