Un-natural history

I have just completed another set of reportage inspired small landscapes, a theme I started developing through the ‘newsblitz’ series which I painted during lockdown. This was a time when images and news stories of our dramatically changing landscape became continually remarkable and so the story continues to unfold.

As the earth soaks up the impact of climate change, our failure to properly address our situation and its effect on communities world wide is something I am recording as ‘un-natural’ histories, positioned as an antithesis to the idea of ‘natural history’. I play within the landscape genre to bring these moments to the fore, as a different kind of travelogue, I hope you will find these images compelling, memorable and true. They will come together as a collection in a venue to be confirmed soon.

Susie