Nudi Neon Green Icy

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

Brace yourself.

There is no easing into Nudi Neon Green Icy. There is no gentle introduction, no gradual build, no polite knock at the door. There is only that green — immediate, total, absolute — a background so electrically, so aggressively, so gloriously alive that it doesn't so much set the scene as become the scene. This is not a colour. It is a statement. It is the universe turning up the volume to maximum and leaving it there.

And then, once your eyes have adjusted to the frequency, the inhabitants of this neon world begin to reveal themselves.

Golden citrine crystals catch the green light and throw it back as amber and honey. A teal-capped mushroom rises from the upper left with the quiet dignity of something that has seen stranger things than this and remains entirely unbothered. A dramatic black and green spotted nudibranch moves through the upper centre with the unhurried confidence of a creature that knows exactly how extraordinary it looks. Yellow coral polyps cluster in precise formations like a tiny city. Peridot crystals pile at the lower right, their facets refracting the neon into a thousand smaller greens. Sea sponges glow in apple green and olive. Ancient rock textures in gold and ochre anchor the composition with geological weight.

And then — at the bottom centre — the moment that stops everything.

A tiny white nudibranch. Smooth, pale, luminous against the chaos of colour surrounding it. Two small black eyes looking directly, unambiguously, delightfully at you. Of all the extraordinary creatures assembled in this painting, this one — the smallest, the quietest, the least decorated — is the one that makes you laugh and then immediately fall in love. It has the quality of the unexpected detail in a great painting — the dog in the corner of the Velázquez, the mouse in the Flemish still life — the thing that was always there, waiting for you to find it.

Did you see me? it asks. I was here the whole time.

This is what the Nudibranch series does at its best — it assembles the extraordinary and then hides the most extraordinary thing of all in plain sight. It rewards attention. It rewards the second look and the third. It reminds you that the natural world has been doing this for millions of years — placing wonders in plain sight and waiting patiently for someone to slow down enough to notice.

Created in a unique process combining photographic collage, hand-applied acrylic paint — including that ferociously beautiful neon green background applied with full commitment and zero apology — and a final layer of high-gloss resin that seals every creature and crystal in permanent, luminous suspension.

✦ 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 ✦ $1,500

Maximum green. One tiny white nudibranch. Everything.