Zeus — The Thunder Cycle

Plate I, The Storm Descends: Zeus, arms outstretched and pointing, rises out of a towering storm cloud while two trees of lightning pour down onto a sea of bronze helmets.
I / VThe Storm Descends, 2025 · oil on linen

The Thunder Cycle

12 September 2026 –
28 February 2027

Five paintings of the god who gathers the clouds.

Enter the gallery

He looks down.
You look up.

Aegis Hall is a single gallery given to a single god. For six months it shows The Thunder Cycle: five canvases, each taller than the person standing in front of it, hung in the dark so that the only light seems to come from the lightning.

Every plate is built the same way — the god at the top, the sky around him, the mortals at the foot — and the hall is built for that: you walk below them.

Read the story of Zeus
Plate II, Eyes of Lightning: close-up of Zeus's face looking down, ice-blue eyes with lightning running from them, stars in his beard.
II / VEyes of Lightning, 2025 · oil and silver leaf on linen

The descent

Plates III to V follow the god down — from the temple steps, through the cloud deck, to the dark above the army.

  1. Plate III, Above the Acropolis: Zeus in bronze armour flies above the Parthenon steps with an eagle over his head. IIIAbove the AcropolisOil on linen · 165 × 295 cm
  2. Plate IV, The Sceptre of Light: a colossal crowned Zeus above a deck of cloud, his staff a beam of light striking a temple city. IVThe Sceptre of LightOil on linen · 165 × 295 cm
  3. Plate V, The Raised Bolt: Zeus as a black silhouette raising a blazing bolt above temples and an army of spears. VThe Raised BoltOil and gold leaf on linen · 165 × 295 cm

All five plates, with notes