R&D Project: Immersive Landscapes and Sustainable Practice
Welcome to the page dedicated to my Research and Development (R&D) project. Over the past decade, I have built an established painting career with a growing exhibition history. Much of that time has been shaped by the business of art — exhibitions, applications, promotion and income generation. While this has expanded visibility, it has often limited sustained studio enquiry.
This project creates protected time to step back from constant outward production and return to focused, investigative painting
Focus: Landscape & Climate
My practice explores landscape in the context of climate change. Rather than illustrating environmental crisis directly, I work through material process — surface, layering, erosion, fragmentation and shifts in colour and atmosphere.
I am interested in how painting can embody environmental instability through sensation rather than description.
The physical act of standing before the work — sensing tension, disruption or quiet transformation — becomes a way of encountering climate change emotionally and bodily.
During this R&D period, I will expand this material language through sustained experimentation with scale, compositional instability and immersive impact.
Mentorship & Critical Dialogue
Working from a rural location has enabled concentration but limited access to high-level critical dialogue.
I am currently participating in a mentorship programme with the Contemporary Art Academy. This project provides the time and space to engage fully with that opportunity — integrating critical feedback, refining research questions, and strengthening the contextual positioning of the work within contemporary art discourse.
The aim is not to over-intellectualise the practice, but to articulate its seriousness and ambition with greater clarity and confidence.
Test-Bed Exhibition
In November, I will present a small-scale test-bed exhibition of the emerging body of work.
This exhibition will:
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Test scale and spatial arrangement
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Explore immersive and perceptual impact
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Invite peer, curator and audience feedback
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Generate reflection to inform further development
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The exhibition functions as a live research tool — allowing the work to be evaluated in a public setting before moving toward larger exhibition contexts.
Project Timeline
