In A Splendid Isolation part II, the impression a Californian road trip left on Chris Moon shifts somewhat: in the first show memories and experiences are translated in a bold palette that distort and often destroy the initial preconceptions of places one accumulates through films and magazines. In this sequel, each painting has a new invasive quality - be it through colour or composition - and focuses on a man-made city's fight for superiority over Nature and vice versa. Moon's obsession with containment, as all those who have followed his work since the beginning will note, still heavily radiates in this body of work. Antagonistic yet appeasing, and at once destroying the peace and cradling the chaos, the works transmit an existential tug of war between the seduction of a city and a longing for the quiet calm of the Natural World.