The left third of this large canvas is dominated by vertical bands of richly textured bark patterning, which contrasts with the diagonal thrust of a large butterfly emerging from the right. Below and behind this fragile creature is an effervescence of zesty yellow flowers with a barely seen figure in the centre, that has become caught up in the cosmos. A large red cellular entity completes the picture.

Adopting the tremble of a cold hand, Trojanowski captures his subjects as if one’s eyes were caught with frostbite. Recurring motifs of butterflies, frogs and harlequin figures are enveloped by splinters of ivory sunlight and marbled shadows of teal, cream and stone, taken as he was 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, enhanced by a piercing and contemporary technological pulse.