The Train of Lights

This painting marks an important moment in my career, becoming the cover artwork for Hawkwind's 2026 album Psychedelic Selection. It also captures one of the recurring ideas that runs through my work: how artificial light can transform an everyday journey into something memorable.

A train moves through the night, its illuminated carriages dissolving into reflection across the water. Colour stretches and shifts across the surface, disrupting the stillness of the landscape and turning a familiar scene into something momentary and fluid. The painting captures this brief transformation, where movement and light combine to create something that exists only for a moment before passing.

Train of Lights was selected as the album cover artwork for the band Hawkwind, extending the life of the painting beyond the canvas into a wider cultural context.

The original painting is held in the private collection of a member of Hawkwind.