Under Europa's Ice

One of my "Alien Landscapes", this began as an exploration of colour, texture and shape but ultimately resolved itself into something that I could imagine as a slightly different (alien) liquid environment. Inspired by recent findings that Jupiter's moon, Europa, had a liquid sea of ammonia and water beneath its crust of ice, and that all the basic elements of life co-exist in this sea, I completed this painting to reflect the possibilities these findings engendered in my imagination.