Nabil Nahas is best known for his thickly encrusted starfish and ‘Fractal’ paintings, built up by layer upon layer of acrylic paint mixed with pumice and finished in vivid colours. Working across a variety of sizes these paintings are of different scales and moods. The smallest of these, with their roughness of texture and tightly packed irregular forms, are like windows into the underwater world of coral reefs, the surface resembling clusters of mussels or coral reef, the bright colours recalling the dappled light of tropical waters.