She Dreams of Strange and Wonderful Things

She Dreams of Strange and Wonderful Things is a large scale immersive oil painting that invites the viewer into the rich and mysterious landscape of the subconscious.  A sleeping woman lies peacefully in the foreground, her turquoise dress glowing softly against the warm, dreamlike atmosphere that surrounds her. From the curve of the deep crimson bed rises an extraordinary world of symbols, memories, fragments, and imagined beings, unfolding like the architecture of a dream.

The painting moves between tenderness, intimacy and wonder. It suggests an inner world both deeply personal and universally recognised. Tiny figures swing, climb, hide and wander across the surface as if acting out stories from the psyche. 

Despite it's complexity, the composition remains anchored by the serenity of the sleeping figure whose stillness contrasts beautifully with the vibrant psychic activity above her. The painting becomes a meditation on imagination itself: the strange beauty of dreams, the hidden life of the mind, and the extraordinary worlds that emerge when consciousness gives way to sleep.