Green Mantle selected for the inaugural Landscape Open at Salisbury Museum

Above: Green Mantle, 2025, watercolour on paper, 23 x 30.5 cm, £1,200 (framed)

Very pleased to discover my watercolour Green Mantle has been selected for the inaugural Landscape Open Exhibition at The Salisbury Museum from 18th October 2025 - 25th January 2026. Thanks so much to the judges: Alex Langlands, Adrian Green, Akash Bhatt, Louise Balaam and Sam Smiles.

Green Mantle is part of an ongoing series of watercolours observing the urban forest leading up to Shooters Hill, London as it alters throughout the year. I was fascinated by the interaction between trees and buildings which seemed to create a jostling, fragmented rhythm, with both plant and human-made forces appearing simultaneously powerful and vulnerable. I also wanted the range of colour to emerge in response to the observations made of the hill as it altered over time. It felt as though I were mentally travelling through the space as I worked, using each fragment of tree or building as a stepping stone to reach its neighbouring form. This intensity of observation also meant that the horizon emerged not as a vague line in the distance, but as a dense boundary and area of exchange between city and sky.

Full details about the exhibition can be seen here.

I hope you will drop in if you are in the area!