You Ripple, I Sway

Sonia Redfern structures this landscape over a vertically striped, high-contrast ground, disrupting the conventions of traditional scenic painting. The organic, painterly forms of leaning palm trees and saturated terrestrial greens are applied directly over the rigid geometry of the striped sky. This stark juxtaposition pushes a familiar tropical motif toward the surreal, echoing Redfern’s stated interest in the boundary between kitsch aesthetics and fine art. A solitary white celestial sphere punctuates the optical pattern above, situating her cosmic inquiries within the tangible, material reality of her chosen substrate.