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The focus of Michael Cullimore’s art is moments of transformation, birth, decay and death. His work contains echoes of the British romantic visionary tradition of William Blake, Samuel Palmer, David Jones and Paul Nash. In this painting there is also something of the Australian artist Sidney Nolan’s handling of paint. In the liquid, bituminous dark of the painting a giant prehistoric jawbone hovers over a desolate land – a tiny and at first unnoticed human form gives scale and terrifying power. The dripping, dentate bones assume a landscape outline themselves, like chalk outcrops in the middle of a storm-laden night. After National Service, Cullimore studied art at Swindon College and Goldsmith’s College and worked as a foundry labourer, before moving to North Wales.