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Stampede II

Sgraffito, coloured mortar and fresco on plywood panel

119 x 119cm (47 x 47in)

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Three horses emerge through sweeping bands of colour and textured relief; their forms built from rhythmic curves, layered mineral tones, and the physicality of the surface itself. Stampede does not represent motion, it constructs it.

Rich siennas, charcoal blacks, muted greens, and luminous earth reds shift continuously with ambient light, while the sculptural relief of the surface absorbs and releases illumination across the work's undulating planes. The horses are simultaneously grounded and atmospheric — physical presence and memory, apparition and force, suspended within a dynamic chromatic field that holds them without containing them.

Stampede transforms the traditional equine subject into something both architectural and elemental. The energy of the image and the weight of the material pull in opposite directions — and that tension, between movement and permanence, between the figural and the abstract, is where the work lives.

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