On a dive in Mauritius I was extremely lucky to observe this remarkable creature, the Common Sea Horse or Hippocampus Kuda, a Greek word meaning “horse monster”.

The sea horse is an amusing amalgam of incommensurable parts—a horse’s head, dragon’s scales, the free-roving eyes and changeable colours of a chameleon, tail of a monkey, a kangaroo’s pouch, the armour of an insect, and the wings of a hummingbird—yet the fact remains that it is simply a fish. A rare and beautiful fish, that inspired me to create this design of a Sea Horse ascending from a cluster of pearls.