This painting began with a fleeting moment from my travels - a single night spent in Madrid that lingered in my mind long after I’d left. I worked from a photograph taken during that stopover, drawn to the stillness and quiet electricity of the city after dark.

The tall buildings stretch upward through the canvas, deliberately exaggerated to create a sense of vertigo and wonder. I wanted the architecture to feel towering and cinematic - as if the city itself were reaching skyward, amplifying the feeling of being small inside a vast, unfamiliar place.

The tiger by the pool is a recurring presence in my work and a symbol that continues to surface in my dreams and paintings. Here, it stands as a quiet guardian of the scene: watchful, powerful, and unreal. It brings a dream-logic to an otherwise grounded moment, allowing memory and imagination to merge.

Night in Madrid is about transience and intensity and the fleeting beauty of passing through a place briefly, yet carrying it with you long after the night has faded.