Cold Comfort centres on an oversized melting ice cream balanced upon a classical pedestal, transforming a familiar symbol of pleasure into something simultaneously celebratory and precarious. Below, recurring jellybean characters gather and move through the scene, creating the sense of a small community drawn towards a shared spectacle.

Bright colours, playful forms and confectionery imagery create an atmosphere of abundance and enjoyment. Yet the work is equally shaped by the slow process of melting and collapse. Dripping surfaces and shifting forms introduce a sense of impermanence, suggesting that the comfort being offered may be temporary.

The title points towards this tension. Rather than presenting comfort as something fixed or reliable, the work reflects on pleasures that are fleeting, fragile and difficult to hold onto. Beneath its playful surface, Cold Comfort explores the relationship between reward, desire and the inevitability of change.