Set in a luminously vibrating ground of grey and yellow where skin and place fuse, a large sunset orange eye captures a small butterfly in its gaze. Its ghostly wings are painted in short strokes making it appear to beat against the bark.

Trojanowski has consistently returned to the forest as a site of exploration and metaphor - whether Tunstall Forest near Suffolk or Hoge Kempen outside Genk, Belgium where he now lives. Here he focusses our attention to the minutiae of the natural world to open our own eyes to its richness, wonders and enchantments, while using precise colour to elicit the chill atmosphere of dark wintertime. The butterfly is one of his recurring motifs.

Loosely brushed with a confident expressionistic use of thin pigments, linseed oil and turpentine, Trojanowski balances spontaneity and lightness to engender a delicately powerful physicality and play of light.