In A Splendid Isolation part II, the impression a Californian road trip left on Chris Moon shifts somewhat: in the first show memories and experiences are translated in a bold palette that distort and often destroy the initial preconceptions of places one accumulates through films and magazines. In this sequel, each painting has a new invasive quality - be it through colour or composition - and focuses on a man-made city's fight for superiority over Nature and vice versa. Moon's obsession with containment, as all those who have followed his work since the beginning will note, still heavily radiates in this body of work.

Antagonistic yet appeasing, and at once destroying the peace and cradling the chaos, the works transmit an existential tug of war between the seduction of a city and a longing for the quiet calm of the Natural World.

Based in London, British painter Chris Moon is one of the contemporary painting scene’s strongest fine art talents. Self-taught, he has developed his own distinctive style through decades of exploration and obsessive investigations into his chosen medium of oil painting. His first two London solo exhibitions, Home (2011) and Reverie (2012) were both commercial and critical successes, both selling out, with paintings entering many sought after private collections worldwide. His last and third solo show A Splendid Isolation was held in March 2014 and also sold out, with A Splendid Isolation part II set to take place in London in November this year.

Before the shows, Moon spent 8 years painting works which he then destroyed because they “didn’t get to the bare soul of the painting.” His work defies straight categorisation as it subtlety navigates a wide range of historical styles, philosophies and tropes. Part abstract, part figurative, Moon’s work is anchored in a very contemporary desire to de-construct and celebrate the culturally neglected minutiae of the everyday. He tirelessly focuses on the idea of containment, “containing chaos and emotion on the canvas.” What finally emerges has a multi-layered depth like staring into an ocean - you can see only one surface, but you know that countless other stories lurk beneath.

Acclaimed film director Jack Bond, (who directed Dali in New York in 1965) is currently making a documentary about Chris Moon which will premiere in New York next year.

A Splendid Isolation part II will take place in November 2014 and a highly anticipated solo show in New York will take place in March 2015. For more details visit www.chrismoonart.com