A hauntingly luminous portrait rendered in oil on linen mounted on aluminium, Richard Wathen's *Hebe* presents a solitary figure bathed in an ethereal, otherworldly light. The work draws on classical mythology — Hebe being the Greek goddess of youth — imbuing the composition with a timeless yet unsettling stillness. Wathen's meticulous technique and cool, restrained palette lend the surface a smooth, almost icon-like quality that blurs the boundary between the sacred and the contemporary.