A wide battlefield scene under a burning orange sky, armoured figures on the left rushing forward through shallow water while a mixed group of green-armoured, spear-wielding warriors and pink-skinned combatants clash near the centre of the frame. A grassy hillock or burial mound rises in the middle distance, small banners or grave markers planted along its ridge, giving the scene a sense of hard-won, contested territory rather than open field combat. The fighters in red plate armour on the left, one gesturing forward as if rallying others, stand apart from the more loosely armoured, tribal-looking warriors engaging near the mound, suggesting two very different factions or forces meeting in this clash. Smoke and dark birds drift across the burnt sky above, while jagged spears bristle up from the ranks below like a thicket, reinforcing the density and scale of the ongoing fight without needing to render every individual combatant in full detail. The title's blunt statement, the war continues, matches the composition's refusal to offer any sense of resolution or victory, just another stage in an ongoing, grinding conflict rendered in Bisley's characteristically thick, painterly brushwork. This kind of large-scale tribal warfare, forces distinguished by armour colour and style clashing across contested, marked terrain, sits comfortably within the broader Celtic and pseudo-historical conflict that runs through much of Pat Mills's Slaine mythos.
The war continues
