Dexter Wynn · No. 98

Sundae Pop

Sundae Pop serves dessert as graphic spectacle. An ice-cream sundae rises in clean flat discs of candy colour — strawberry pink, vanilla cream, a drizzle of chocolate — each scoop ringed in confident black and crowned with a single glossy maraschino cherry. Dexter Wynn renders the confection with full comic-book clarity, every element simplified to its most legible, most tempting form, as though it were an illustration from a diner menu enlarged to the scale of a portrait. Like the best of the genre, the image is at once utterly superficial and quietly clever: an unembarrassed celebration of sugary excess that also gestures, gently, at a culture engineered for instant gratification, where pleasure is bright, immediate and endlessly replenished. There is genuine craft in the restraint — the way each flavour is reduced to a single confident shape, the way the cherry punctuates the whole like an exclamation mark. Nothing is laboured; everything is appetite. Sweet, vivid and impossible to dislike, it brings a jolt of pure, unapologetic fun to the wall, the visual equivalent of a childhood sugar rush. It is Pop in its most generous mood — happy to be delicious, and clever enough to know it.

An original oil painting on canvas by Dexter Wynn, painted to order — never a reproduction. Pop-art icons in flat primary colour, Ben-Day dots and bold black outlines — everyday objects and bright portraits with a comic-book punch.

Artist

Dexter Wynn

Medium

Oil on canvas

Finish

Unframed, ready to hang or frame

Made

To order, by hand