Tag: painterly landscapes

Victoria Curling Eriksson creates atmospheric oil paintings that move between seascape, landscape, and emotional memory, transforming coastlines, skies, forests, and shifting light into deeply calming visual experiences. Living on the northwest coast of Skåne in Sweden, surrounded by sea and woodland nature reserves, she paints entirely from intuition rather than photographs or sketches, allowing colour, atmosphere, and feeling to guide each work as it slowly develops through layered oils. Her paintings often begin with only an emotion or palette in mind, gradually evolving over many thin layers into compositions filled with…

Isabel Aguado creates atmospheric landscape paintings that move between observation, memory, and abstraction, transforming hills, valleys, grasses, and distant terrain into emotional spaces filled with rhythm and movement. Growing up surrounded by countryside and mountains deeply shaped the way she experiences nature, teaching her to notice shifting light, changing colours, and the quiet structures hidden within the land itself. Working from her own photographs, she begins with real places before allowing gesture, loosened brushwork, and layered colour to gradually reshape the image into something more intuitive and emotionally charged. Earthy ochres,…

Jo Morris creates luminous dreamlike landscapes that blur the line between memory, atmosphere, and abstraction. Inspired by a lifetime spent moving through deserts, coastlines, mountains, and wide Australian skies, her paintings no longer document specific places but instead capture the emotional feeling of being within them. Working intuitively with water-based inks, watercolours, sprays, and pigments, she builds soft horizons and glowing layers where blues dissolve into purples, pinks into oranges, and landscapes drift gently between reality and imagination. Rather than painting directly from photographs, Jo works from memory, allowing emotion, light,…