Painting Landscape

'Painting Landscape' was a 30-minute illustrated presentation for a symposium held in conjunction with the group exhibition 'Arcadia for All? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now'. The symposium was held on 22nd June, 2023 in the seminar room of The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery at Leeds University.

The university website invited attendees to:

'Challenge your views on what landscape curation and painting can mean in this free one-day symposium.

Hear from artists and curators presenting and discussing the possibilities of curating art exhibitions on landscape and nature, with case studies from both national and local art galleries including Tate Liverpool, Leeds Art Gallery and The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery.

In the afternoon there will be a round table comprising painters represented in the exhibition who will be discussing their practice and the vibrancy and vitality of landscape painting today. These will include David Ainley, Kimathi Donkor, Geraint Evans, Mark Fairnington, Barbara Howey, Paula MacArthur, Clare Thatcher, Judith Tucker, Rebecca Partridge and Joanna Whittle.'

My lecture was an analysis of the role of landscape in my paintings, one of which ('Call Me Blessed, 2016) was on display in the exhibition.