Living Water – Talking Trees explores the landscape as a living presence, ancient, enduring and quietly speaking. Rivers carry stories through generations, while trees gather in communities, their branches reaching towards one another as though in conversation, bearing witness to the passage of time.

Drawing upon the Baroque principle of bel composto, (The Beautiful Whole) these paintings unite light, water, trees and atmosphere into immersive, sacred environments. The landscape becomes an ancient theatre, its trees the actors, its rivers the unfolding narrative and light the ever-changing stagecraft. Together they perform an enduring script, a silent chorus that rises from the landscape itself.

The exhibition invites us to look beyond scenery and consider what the landscape sees and remembers, what it heralds and what it might reveal. A language older than ours, a song that continues while we call it home and long after we have gone.

I am drawn to the quiet embrace of the landscape, trees, the earth beneath them and the enveloping depths of a myriad of greens, where I find a profound sense of stillness, belonging and renewal. These places offer a refuge from the noise of the world, grounding me in something both ancient and enduring. Through painting and drawing, I return to these places again and again, allowing the rhythms of light, foliage and water to unfold underneath my brush or pencil to embrace me once more. The act of making becomes an extension of being there, a way of dwelling within the landscape long after I have left it, where I never have to leave.

Catalogue coming soon