Photo Collage, Spray Paint, Acrylic and Resin on Wood Panel | 12×12 inches | 7/8" Deep | 2023 | Nudibranch Series

This painting begins with a photograph taken in Jamaica.

A palm frond. Shot from below, Caribbean light coming through the leaves with that particular tropical generosity — warm, golden, having travelled a long way and intending to make the most of its arrival. That photograph became two things simultaneously in this painting — a collage element, cut and placed directly onto the surface, and a stencil, used as a mask for spray paint so that the same frond appears twice — once as itself, once as its own ghost. Document and mark. Leaf and memory. Jamaica, twice.

Everything else followed from that decision.

The neon green arrives total and absolute — pure Caribbean daylight, the green of a Jamaican hillside seen from the water, of tropical light that makes every colour it touches more itself. Against it, the composition erupts in the language of the street — a hot pink circle blazing like a midday sun, a teal rectangle cutting across with complete compositional confidence, hot pink dots scattered like tropical rain or like bougainvillea glimpsed from a moving vehicle. The palm frond moves through it all twice — photograph and ghost, the same leaf living two simultaneous lives.

And through all of it — reaching.

Two extraordinary blue-purple nudibranchs extend toward each other across the composition with a gesture so human, so urgent, so full of intention that they look less like sea creatures and more like hands breaking through a neon portal from another world entirely. They do not drift here the way nudibranchs drift in the deeper, darker, more contemplative pieces of this series. They reach. The ocean reaching into the Caribbean. The deep sea reaching into the daylight.

The 7/8 inch panel — shallower than the deep aquarium panels of the Nudibranch series — gives this piece a flat, graphic, street art energy entirely its own. This is not a window into the ocean. This is the ocean coming to find you.

Created in a unique process combining original photographic collage, spray paint, hand-applied acrylic and a final layer of high-gloss resin — the surface sealing every element in permanent, luminous suspension.

Nudi Neon Green was conceived as a pair with Nudi Neon Yellow — both inspired by the light and landscape of Jamaica. They are available individually or together.

✦ Original, one-of-a-kind work ✦ Photo collage, spray paint, acrylic and resin on wood panel ✦ 12 × 12 inches | 7/8" deep ✦ 2023 ✦ Part of the Nudibranch series ✦ Conceived as a pair with Nudi Neon Yellow ✦ Free worldwide shipping