This piece is entitled ‘I guess we’ll just float then…’ and it is on the theme of floods we witnessed around the world in 2023 (specifically Libya, the US, Pakistan, Congo…). The angels emerging from a halo of light are frantically flying towards the earth as messengers, urgently warning the planet of its disastrous fate, but it seems to be too late.

This painting aims to highlight the incapacity or unwillingness of political leaders & CEOs to think about the impactful decisions they make — so often overly focused on profit, and so infrequently concerned by other metrics of wellbeing, namely a healthy and safe planet in which human beings can prosper.

The image aims to mock them and the lie their big egos feed them daily: that they can continually get away with making big, senseless decisions despite the devastating environmental repercussions, which they, naturally, never face. And if they do one day, I guess they’ll just ‘float’ then…!

fuchsia (b. 1995, Paris) is a multimedia artist working primarily with painting. She completed an MA in song writing and production at Nottingham Trent University (2019) and a BA in liberal arts at the University of Bristol (2017). Working primarily with watercolour and oils, she explores concepts of good and evil through carefully selected colour palettes and spiritual iconography. fuchsia paints angels and underwater creatures in dream-like landscapes and fervently believes in the power of these celestial beings. In her eyes, angels represent the deepest state of our core as humans - love, vulnerability and innocence - all things we regrettably gradually let go of when entering adulthood. Her paintings are overflowing with symbols of beauty and chaos, and aim to highlight certain conflicting moral forces we face in today’s complex world, namely issues on climate change which seem to preoccupy the minds of her angels.