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Coral, pink and green forms drift across a bright cobalt ground, iridescent and scattered like shells or sea creatures, dotted with red and yellow. The large canvas reads as an underwater or shoreline field, shimmering with the nacreous colour the title names. El-Kadhi Brown (b. 1996, London) paints in oil, here in her brightest register, the blue pushed to full saturation and broken by flecks of warm pigment. The British-Iraqi painter, RCA-trained, lets domestic and natural imagery loosen into pattern and sensation. The exclamation of the title suits the mood — a buoyant, glittering surface given over to the pleasure of colour and the play of light on water.