Swansea’s paintings are characterised by their ambiguity. They are at once uncannily familiar yet lack a discernible narrative or identification. Instead, they create a sense of hazy recollection or an elusive dream. Swansea sees her work as flexible; the reading can alter depending on who is looking at it. The ephemerality of her work is further emphasised by the way in which she prepares her canvases and applies paint to their surfaces. For Frozen Creek 2, Swansea primed the canvas with a traditional white ground mixed with powdered marble and mica, achieving a luminescent base on which to apply her pure colours. These appear to flicker and fragment as though illuminated from within, giving the painting a shifting, almost cinematic quality.

The composition presents a muted winter landscape where snow and water merge in soft bands of grey, white and pale blue. Tree trunks and thin branches create vertical rhythms across the surface, while faint tonal contrasts suggest the presence of a frozen creek just below the picture plane. Like others in this series, Frozen Creek 2 hovers between figuration and abstraction, with no single focal point but rather a diffuse field of marks that imply time, memory and stillness. The snow-covered setting conceals as much as it reveals, transforming the landscape into a suspended moment that feels both immediate and remote.