“Wallace Stevens, the American poet makes a clear link between poetry and painting when he says: ‘……… poetry and painting operate at the juncture between imagination and reality, and that:  there is a universal poetry, of which literary poetry and painting are manifestations.’”

Contemporary British painter Lucie Winterson is widely admired for her ongoing series of lyrically atmospheric landscape paintings created from photographs, paint and sand. In these meditative paintings, one encounters the enigmatic language of humankind’s relationship with the natural world, expressed as a complex yet poetic imaginative space. 

Winterson’s process begins with a giclée photograph. She covers her photograph of a natural scene with sand and applies paint with large brushes and mops, tilting the canvas to allow the paint to create its own patterning. The artist describes this captivating technique in language as poetic as her painting: “I watch and partially control the blooming of colour, sedimentations of sand and tide lines that dry at the edge of pools.”

Overall, Winterson’s work has an enigmatic quality, the effects of light and shadow reveal an atmospheric terrain infused with a sense of longing. In these paintings, we find ourselves engaged in questions about the profound connection humankind has with the earth: as a source for life and a place of metaphorical imagination, a landscape of mythos, emotion and beauty. 

 

Rosa JH Berland

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BIOGRAPHY

LUCIE WINTERSON: “Navigating nature/human relations in the ecological crisis through art practice”, at the University of the Arts, London.  She has a special focus on immersive encounters and poetic engagement with the natural world as described: “to imagine a space of mutuality where the human and more than human world entangle and express themselves in a myriad of ways including the poetic” 

Winterson’s oeuvre can be considered in the context of the tradition of landscape painting but remains positioned as a uniquely contemporary expression of the natural world.  She lives and works in London and Devon and also works in photography, installation, site specific and video modalities.

Solo Shows

 

2017‘Into the Amazon’  Solo Show,  Eastway Studios, London 

2015Residency Show, The Cabin at Bucks Mills, Devon.

2011‘Modern Nature’ Guildhall Chambers, Bristol,

2010           Solo Show, Hammerson’s Artist Initiative, London

1991Solo Show, Knapp Gallery, London,

1990Solo Show, Higherwater Gallery, London

1989Solo Show, Christie’s College, London

Selected Group Shows, Residencies and Conferences

 

2022 ‘Glimpsing the Indefinable’ Aleph Contemporary,London. 3 person

2019          ‘Mercator: Projections and Distortions in discovery.’  

PhD Research Exhibition, Triangle Space, Chelsea UAL, London

2019          ‘Thames Narratives’ Menier Gallery, London,  4 person 

2017‘In the Open’ exhibition with Land2 and ASLE-UK(I) Conference, 

Sheffield Institute of Arts

2015/16‘Small is Beautiful’ Flowers Gallery, London  

2015/16TRELEX Residency Amazon,  Peruvian Rainforest, Peru  

2015Appledore Arts & National Trust: The Cabin at Bucks Mills, Devon.  

2014        “Land and its intimate parts”. Paper: “John Clare in Land, Poetics in 

Painting” The Mothership, Dorset

2014“John Clare in Space”, Paper: “Doubling Light, John Clare and the 

layering of vision in my painting.”  Oxford Brookes University

2013‘Small is Beautiful’ Flowers Gallery, London.

2012’Paper Nautilus’ Paper Nautilus Press, West Hampstead

2011‘i know a place’, Flowers East  London, 6 person show

2009‘Small is Beautiful’ Flowers East, London

2008‘00 Nature’, Contemporary Arts Projects Hoxton, London

’For the Time Being’ Town Mill Gallery, Lyme Regis, 3 person

2007‘Small is Beautiful’ Flowers East, London

2006'30 x 30’ Vertigo Gallery, London 

2005          Arsinvita Gallery, Munich,  Led Land Art Project.  Bavarian Alps

2004‘Land & Light’ Wingfield Arts, Suffolk

1998‘Small is Beautiful’ Flowers East, London

1994Polish Cultural Institute, London

1991/92British Council Scholarship and Residency, Krakow School of Art

1990The Monastery Residency, Prilep, North Macedonia

1990‘Ways of Telling’ Oriel Mostyn. Llandudno, Wales

1989Christopher Hull Gallery, London

Teaching

2020-current“Ideas through Watercolour”, online continuous

1998- current“Inspired by Land and Landscape” and “Creative 

Watercolour” Mary Ward Adult Education, London. 

1998-2004“Modern Watercolour”,  “Land Art”, UK, Belgium,Germany.

1998-2002Life Drawing, RADA, London

Education

2018-University of the Arts London, CCW practice based PhD.

1991/2 European MA, Winchester Art School in Barcelona MA Fine Art

1980-83 Central St Martins, London    BA Fine Art