Sea Sky Land

Drawing her inspiration from her surroundings,

Vicki Swift’s work is reflective of

the relationship between nature and the self.

Rather than reproducing landscape

in a classically representational way,

she captures the essence and the feeling

of being within the landscape.

From the coast to the hills,

 Vicki uses a sophisticated

 process of deconstruction in her works.

Her restrained palette and the layering of textures

 makes her paintings vibrate in a tactile way

…offering the viewer

an impressionistic interpretation of landscape.

One of her methodologies involves using shells

 as a means of ‘printing’ paint directly onto the canvas

 which creates patterns transporting us

 on to the sandy beaches and

into the landscape she lives in.