Two Panthers

Big cats crowd the frame shoulder to shoulder, every one staring out at you. Pale lionesses with clean white faces sit among leopards drawn as fields of tiny black dots. Their bodies dissolve into fine vertical pen lines, so the crowd reads like a patterned cloth. Two black panthers break the rhythm: one at the centre left, covered in white specks, and a smaller one near the lower right.

Black, white and soft greys made purely from line and dot. The two dark panthers act as anchors, one high and one low, and the eye bounces between them. On a phone it reads as pattern; printed at 9 × 18 in, each face becomes its own portrait. It suits a calm living room or a monochrome gallery wall.