Women In Water - Colorful Horizon (II), 2025

A hand-signed study for a painting on paper by James Francis Gill.

Pop Art pioneer James Francis Gill explores femininity through the shifting, fluid lens of water in this markedly intimate and expressive series. Transcending mere representation, this artwork is a personal and poetic exploration of emotion, identity and the universal human connection with nature.

In this piece, Gill transforms water – typically a flowing, form-dissolving element in his work – into a projection surface for the vibrant colours of the sky. As boundaries blur, sky becomes water, light becomes skin and perception becomes feeling.

As an artist who once temporarily withdrew from the public eye, Gill understands the search for new forms of inner truth. In ‘Colourful Horizon’, this is condensed into a painterly meditation on being one with the world, not as an escape, but as a deep understanding.

Find out more about the Women in Water collection here.