Midnight Jolly

"Midnight Jolly" is a haunting and thought-provoking painting that captures an abandoned boat, once used to ferry immigrants across the sea to the UK. The vessel sits eerily surrounded by tattered life jackets floating aimlessly on dark waters, like tombstones scattered reminding us of how many dont make the crossing.The painting challenges a common narrative—that these individuals arrive with luxuries and are living an easy life—by subtly reminding viewers that what might look like privilege is often just a lifeline. The old phones or small belongings people carry are not symbols of comfort but of a desperate connection to loved ones and a past life lost to conflict.

In "Midnight Jolly," the emptiness of the boat and the abandoned life jackets hopes for you to question these simplistic narratives and to see the humanity and the struggle behind each journey. It’s a piece that subtly but powerfully asks us all to reconsider the stories we’ve been told.