Reminiscent of Rothko’s vast contemplative fields, Barnaby Furnas’s Flood (Red Sea) draws upon the associations of Abstract Expressionism. Spanning over 7 meters, Flood (Red Sea) construes the transcendental as sheer power. Obliterating the serene blue ‘sky’ with frenzied swipes of red, Furnas presents a landscape as an encompassing plane of colour and texture that literally engulfs the viewer in spectacle. Incorporating biblical reference in the title, Furnas layers his abstraction as allegory, merging painting’s formal and narrative traditions in a tableau of apocalyptic beauty.