Tracing the fragments of such memories and the fleeting impressions of his surroundings, Einhorn blends these with other influences, ranging from niche punk or graffiti subcultures and poignant socio-political events, to lyrics from records that he listens to while he works, which end up on the canvas’s edges.

These references fuse into strange stories with obscure narratives and a mood of bizarrely joyful play. Turning the canvases as he goes, Einhorn combines painting and collage, layering oil, acrylic, spray paint and ink with materials like mesh, fabric and tar paper in an experimental practice. His surfaces are built up by mark making, removing, collaging, tearing out, pasting, and over painting, again and again. Sometimes he incorporates unexpected found objects — uncalculated moments that take the work in unanticipated directions.

Having previously created large-scale canvases, over the past three years, Einhorn has focused on medium and small-scale formats with his most recent paintings. These bring into existence dreamlike realms, merging swathes of vibrant colour and pattern with a host of playful characters: long, languorous sunbeams, all-knowing eyes, and wilting flowers preside over butterflies, snakes, and horses with human heads, a smiling ladybird and wild blue dogs sprinting into the distance. Einhorn ultimately seeks to materialise a sense of our fragile existence; of the mutable and constantly changeable nature of life, and the shaky ground that we wilfully walk upon, never quite knowing what happens next, or what we might dare to imagine. Einhorn received a Master’s degree from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, studying under the professorship of Tal R and Andreas Schulze.