Paris-born Jules de Balincourt is inextricably linked with California. He moved there in the Eighties with his family and has mined its storied landscape ever since. Executed in 2020, Solitary Cowboy invites us on a nocturnal journey to the wild west. His paintings — ‘a dreamy confluence between fantasy and reality’ — are a riot of saturated colour.

But trouble often lurks beneath his candy-coloured surfaces. Look closely and you’ll see barbed references to social, political and cultural issues, from structures of power to racism and homelessness. Feeling uneasy? Good. ‘That’s the reality of our world. It’s a fragile, unsettling place,’ he’s said.