"+ 5° C (repent before it's too late)", 70 H x 100 W cm, oil on canvas 2025 Despite first impressions, this painting is concerned with Climate Change. The painting was inspired when I saw marble bas-reliefs on the exterior facade of Orvieto Cathedral in Italy. The bas-reliefs depict biblical stories from the Old and New Testament. They date from the fourteenth and fifteenth century, and are the collective and anonymous work of at least three or four sculptors with the assistance of their workshops. I took photos of one section, - the Last Judgement, particularly concentrating on the Damned,- and used them as the basis for the painting. The most striking thing to me about the marbles is that they convey the TOTAL faith of their creators in inevitable reward or punishment for the actions each individual takes during their lives. In the painting I am contrasting that faith with how we as a collective and as individuals think about our destruction of the natural environment through man-made Climate Change. We KNOW that we are destroying our own habitat, and that of every other living creature, yet we do not really believe that we will suffer for our individual and collective actions. The plants and greenery in the painting are actually Nasturtiums which I grow in my garden every year. They are depicted as they appear after the first frost of the year hits them. Their stalks blend nicely with the snakes, I think.