Tidal Galaxy

TIDAL GALAXY Acrylic on Canvas | 48" × 48" | 2019

The fire is real. The water is real. The figures are from another time entirely. The stars don't care about any of it.

Tidal Galaxy is a painting of a night that exists between worlds — a campfire burning with genuine warmth in the lower left, its orange and gold completely present and completely now, while beside it figures from what appears to be a Victorian or Edwardian sculptural reference gather at the water's edge in grey-scale, as if they arrived from a different century and found this beach and decided to stay. The water behind them is the deep, luminous blue of a night ocean alive with reflected starlight — scattered with dots of white, red and neon green that are simultaneously stars reflected in water and paint doing what paint does when it is completely free.

Above it all the sky is the universe at full capacity — deep black scattered with light in every colour, the particular infinity of a clear night far from any city where the stars are not points but presences.

The neon green bleeds into the water at the lower right with the casual, extraordinary beauty of something that has no interest in being explained. The campfire crackles. The figures confer. The galaxy turns.

Tidal Galaxy is a painting about the smallness of human gathering against the scale of everything else — and the warmth of it. How a fire on a beach at night is both completely insignificant and the most important thing in the universe to the people sitting around it.

📦 Shipping & Details

• 48" × 48" original acrylic on canvas
• Signed and dated 2019
• Please contact us to discuss shipping options
• Certificate of authenticity included

One original. No reproductions. The stars don't care. The fire does.