Dreams Moonbeams and Street Scenes

Oil on Canvas, 2019
80x80 cm (31.4x31.4 inch)
Unframed
Dreams, Moonbeams, and Street Scenes by Dex Hannon is an oil on canvas that visually channels the atmospheric energy of Captain Beefheart’s Blue Jeans and Moonbeams. This painting is a vibrant exploration of movement, light, and depth, achieved without reliance on traditional visual illusions.

The overlapping lines, sharp yet fluid, carve their way across the canvas, creating a kaleidoscopic abyss of colour. Light seems to ripple through the strokes, scattering in bursts of icy blues, greens, and flashes of fiery red. These contrasts evoke a tension—at once cool and electric, serene and restless.

“The light scatters flits noiselessly around your vision,” Hannon explains. “Fast, linear bursts slice through and collide with one another, cutting across the night like a melody. It’s the feeling of wandering the streets at night, the air alive with music, dreams, and expectation.”

This piece embodies a nocturnal energy, its crisscrossing strokes suggesting the vibrant chaos of urban life—light refracting off buildings, shadows moving through alleyways, and the pulsing rhythm of music carried on the breeze. The painting is more than a visual work; it’s an abstract symphony, a moment of sound and motion captured in colour.