These are shifting landscapes where water and land work with and against each other- building and erasing shape, colour and texture” She goes on to talk of her process. “Shaping a space, shaping a surface from the moment that sparks a reaction through to the resolved piece, it is the in-between states that interest me- the physical making of the work, the layering of paint and paper, colour and texture which make a shape, an edge, a surface, a plane of light, an unexpected tension. The ebb and flow of work.”

Rosemarie Langtry’s work is rooted in her rural upbringing “…Digging, weeding, turning, saving, collecting, my hands on contact and connection with land and nature.” She uses very similar language when describing her process: “I love textures, layers, digging, burying and the process of using my hands. Inspired and influenced by found rusty items with a history, works made by nature, cardboard the landscape and materials around me.”

Jock Nichol’s work is a sensory response to place. Repeatedly returning to the same location over long periods of time, painting, sketching and observing the seasonal changes, as well as that which remains constant, in an attempt to understand the character of the bog. These are not paintings of a particular moment, but the culmination of many months’ study and reflection.