Catman is a portrait of a young man who has completed his journey to self-mastery. Loosely based on the mythical demigod Hercules, the painting represents a merging of two of his conquests: pythons and lions. One at the start of his life and the other in adulthood.

Confident and gentle, this masculine figure speaks about the journey young men go through when they begin to express and explore their power and strength. This experience invites them to discover they can channel this force and emotions alchemising it into courage. Catman symbolises the consolidation and the harmonising of power with heart.

Two angels look on with headless snakes in their grip. Catman has snake tattoos on his muscular arms and one from an ancient vase depicting Hercules fighting the Nemean Lion. A playful pet cat is coiled around his neck. Perhaps in making friends with both creatures they have merged for him.

The snake symbolizes the beginning of life, the awakening of life force. The lion equates to courage; not the absence of fear but the willingness to ‘be’ in your truth in the face of it.