The Dragons at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton have come out to play at the gardens! These dragons are a homage to Cheng Rong Nine Dragons Scroll; Hokusai’s book of everything and Chinoiserie art.

In March 2026 I completed this new series of prints. Dragons weave through the Royal Pavilion Garden in Brighton, slipping between jasmine and sweet william, gliding past gates and the Porte-Cochere, twisting through the India Gate, and squeezing under the North Gate. Above them, the sky becomes a patterned field of clouds, blossoming trees, and geometric shapes, where nature and ornament meet.

The Pavilion itself is John Nash’s 1815 Indo-Saracenic masterpiece, a romantic jumble of domes, towers, and minarets, painted to look like Bath stone. It forms the perfect stage for these playful dragons, blending architecture, garden, and sky in layered, flowing compositions.

Digital pigment prints, made from the original ink drawings, are available in A0–A4, in editions of 100, each signed and numbered

Also for sale at Brighton Royal Pavilion Shop

These prints are my homage to two of my favourite artists: Hokusai and Chen Rong. From Hokusai I borrow clouds, birds, flowering branches, and compositional approaches, building each image from separate ink drawings that come together like plates in a print. For the dragons, I looked to Chen Rong’s Nine Dragons handscroll, which I saw at the V&A in 2013—powerful, shifting forces of nature captured in clouds, water, and mountains.