A haunting and visceral watercolour, Jim Shaw's work from his Monster series depicts grotesque, hybrid creatures rendered with a deceptively loose and fluid hand. Shaw draws on the visual language of vintage comic books, pulp fiction, and B-movie horror to conjure figures that feel both familiar and deeply unsettling. The transparency of the watercolour medium lends the imagery an eerie luminosity, amplifying the tension between the work's playful pop culture references and its darker psychological undertones.