Dominated by a large centrally positioned Red Admiral butterfly with wings outspread, the painting is framed by animated twisting green patterned bark. Looking up with an exaggerated eye is a briefly sketched human profile, the nose following the dusty wake of the butterfly’s flight that continues up through its body to consolidate into a perpendicular bold blue line. Behind a pale cosmos of mottled marks and patterned plants move in and out of focus.

Butterflies are a recurring motif in Trojanowski’s works and are often enveloped by marbled shadows of teal, cream and stone, inspired by the dramatic use of colour and light in the many Impressionist masterpieces he saw whilst living in the French capital. Loosely brushed, with confident, free-flowing use of pigment, linseed oil and turpentine, Glade balances spontaneity and lightness with physicality, scale and material intuition - as if his subjects are placed the verge of a shuddering ice cap, or paralysed by the grave beauty of a butterfly’s kiss.

Inspired in part by the legacy of the Young Poland movement, of which his great grandfather was a prominent member, Trojanowski fuses the warm and decorative energy of his Polish heritage with shades of surreal and expressionist gestures to create graphic and textured organic forms.