Radiance

The Licuala ramsayi. Australian fan palm, native to Far North Queensland. I've loved them since the moment I first stepped into the Daintree rainforest — that impossible green, the light coming down through fronds the size of a person, the whole forest holding its breath.

This is the first. There will be more. Radiance is where the series begins.

I built it across four panels because that's what the palm does — it doesn't sit inside a frame, it opens outward. The fronds break across the join. The gold starts at the centre and pushes out past every edge.

That's the magic of the fan palm — it doesn't have one right way to be. The four panels can be rearranged. Hang them as a full burst with the gold meeting at the centre. Pull them apart into pairs. Rotate the quadrants. The composition shifts with you. Every wall, every owner, finds their own version.

Real gold leaf at the core. Black canvas underneath. Textured paint laid in the strokes of the frond itself. The hammered-metal resin finish over the top — a technique I reach for when a piece asks for it.

A single panel, a pair, a set, or four pieces hung however the wall asks for them. The radiance doesn't stop being radiance when you rearrange it.

The things that have lived get to live again — and become something that lives in another person's soul.