‘Wish You Were Here’ considers landscape as a site of temporary occupation and shared use. The land is not presented as pristine or remote, but as somewhere people gather, celebrate, and leave traces. Human presence is embedded in the landscape, neither separate from it nor fully in control of it.

Drawing loosely on bacchanal and Greek myth, the painting reflects on collective pleasure and moments where social order loosens. Here, that looseness carries tension. Leisure sits alongside excess, and enjoyment is inseparable from its residue.

The figures are shown in states of sprawl, fatigue, and bodily necessity. These gestures resist idealisation and position the body as porous and cyclical, bound to processes of intake and waste. The landscape absorbs not only presence but consequence.

The title ‘Wish You Were Here’ gestures toward invitation and aftermath at once. It speaks to a place once desirable, now altered, and asks what remains after the gathering has passed.