Portrait format water colour and pastel painting.

The composition contains four figures, the central figure in the foreground a female is dancing and in the movement of her garment is suggested a fish.

The figure on the left hand side in a red garment is the mother, the gesture of her hands suggest she is waiting for something, (the head of John the Baptist). The figure on the right with her arms crossed, is merely observing.

The figure seen through the doorway suggests someone walking away in remorse.  There is an interplay between the primary colours of red, yellow and blue hues.

There is a strong perspective created by the tiled pattern on the floor and ceiling leading to an invisible vanishing point.

In the renaissance period, different events were shown on one narrative painting.

Because this painting is about Salome dancing for the head of John the Baptist. It has a lot of movement and pattern in the composition.

From the Artist:

Inspired by The "dance of Salome" by "Benozzo Gozzoli" a 15th century painter. A lot of the people who inspired me came from that period.

I've taken three of the figures from his painting, put them in my own context and added another figure.

In this painting different timescales are happening at once.

The title Ichthys refers to the Christian symbol for fish.