‘Esher, Surrey in the year 3000’ (2007), oil on linen, 140 x 100 cm.  2007

Esher, an affluent town in Surrey, is my place of work and residence and I have painted a number of landscapes of local scenes. This painting imagines a bleak vision of the future. It assumes that global climate change has resulted in the end of humanity and nature. All that remains are clouds of brown dust swirling around the statue of grief, graveyard crosses and headsto...