Exploring innovation, craft, and creativity. The new painting, with be the follow-up to ‘Night Wishes’ which was produced between 2021 and 2022. A continuation of the idea to fully articulate an iconic mother nature image that represents humanity and the natural world under assault in 2025. Mother nature creatively rendered as a personified female, possibly adrift on a raft, on a rising ocean. Mother nature as a classically painted female represented by combining human features as well as animal and organic characteristics and textures. I intend to paint a contemporary social and environmental commentary pertaining to our planet in the year of 2025. I will develop a unique character and place her on a raft perhaps with a variety of exotic animals as a ironic statement that ‘nature needs a life raft’ and ‘mother nature on the run in 2025’ A kind of Modern Day Noahs Arc or a recontextualization of the19th century painting ‘Raft of the Medusa’ Gericault used as inspiration of a tragic event. Romanticism, an artistic and literary movement within the 19th century, will be one stylistic inspiration for a painting reinterpreted through a contemporary lens. I will utilize an expressive style of oil painting with a more classical approach to building an image through layers and classical painting techniques. It will be conceptually and aesthetically driven, combining a number of contrasting elements, to illustrate polarity and division.