This painting is titled Lanterns on the Deep.

It's quite large, 8 feet across and 5 feet high; big enough to fill your view when you're standing in front of it, and big enough to create a theatrical illusion of space.

In the painting, two figures are out on a little boat in a dark sea. A woman, standing, holds up a lantern which illuminates the water. A school of fish have emerged and are watching it. A man pauses for a moment sitting at the oars, glowing lanterns piled around him.
The painting is a work in contrasts, between lights and darks and between the cool greens of the sea and the warm yellows of the people in their little pools of light.

Ocean's work comes from the classical painting traditions of figure and narrative, but it's also from the potent visual mythology of children's books and pop culture. From these he's synthesized something new and rich and strange, full of narrative mystery and symbolic ambiguity.

You can hear the distant echoes of Windsor McKay, Brueghel, Maurice Sendak, and countless others.

Here's a detail of the figures; they're painted about half life-size. Like the people in the other paintings in this series, these figures are both real (solidly painted with light and mass) and symbolic; standing for a cluster of meanings.

And here's an image of the painting in the studio to give you a sense of its scale and presence as an object.