‘Hypnogogia’ acrylic on board, 69x84cm. I wanted to do a rif on Fuseli’s Nightmare painting. In this version the protagonist is trapped in half sleep. Her demons aren’t nightmarish,they drift with her between deep dreams and consciousness. Perhaps this is a lucid dream. Gravityless and false. Deliberate inaccuracies in the painting are further proof that this is an imagined reality. The broken elephant is a recurring theme in my work. He’s supposed to be good luck, a guardian but in this case he’s ineffective,maybe even bad luck or a sign of uncertain fate.