These paintings are of a kind of idyll that extends to underwater paradises of coral and sea creatures. The pictures are portrait in format since much of the play's imagery is of height and depth and movement between the two. In response to Shakespeare’s visionary artifice the landscapes are deliberately artificial. Nature is made strange with colour heightened and dramatic contrasts in light and dark. With black skies and white sands, day and night are combined in a series of paradoxical scenes. Amongst these settings, reminiscent of outsiders and solitaries in my other work, is the amorphous form of Caliban. I like turning the human into the enigmatic or non-human and Caliban is a ready-made representation of this as he looms as a silhouette against the sun and moon.
