Hollow Pool was made in 1999, the year Woods completed her MA at Goldsmiths College, London, and stands as an exceptionally early and important work from the body of practice that would establish her as one of the most significant British painters of her generation. Working in enamel on aluminium and MDF, she paints a nocturnal woodland: bare winter trees lit from below against a near-total black ground, their white trunks and branches tracing a dense, interlocking network that fills the picture plane. A single orange disc sits low on the left edge, the only warm note in an otherwise cold and pressured field. Originally trained as a sculptor, Woods brings to painting an acute sense of structure and surface; the enamel on aluminium gives the work a lacquered depth and weight that oil on canvas cannot replicate. The landscape here is not pastoral but nocturnal and psychological, closer to Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland than to any tradition of English picturesque. Acquired at the very outset of her career, this is a rare early example of what would become one of the defining modes of her practice. New works by the artist are to be presented at The Armory Show, New York, in September 2026.