Skyfall (Diptych)

Phaethon, son of Helios, seeks proof of his divine parentage and is granted a single day to drive the sun chariot. Unable to control the fiery horses, he veers too close to earth, scorching lands, then too far, plunging the world toward cold. To prevent destruction, Zeus strikes him down with a thunderbolt. Phaethon falls from the sky into the river Eridanus, a tragic emblem of ambition undone by mortal limits. James Bond always seems to get out of those tight spots though, a spy of mythical great proportions, impossible, yet truly lovable.

He takes the sun, but cannot hold its course.
The sky fractures under a mortal hand.
He falls—fire spent, ambition undone.

Oil on canvas, 2024
18” x 18” (2)
Price: £495

© Robert Walker 2026
@theartistrobert