Somerset artist Grace Green translated the terrain of the Scottish Highlands into a series of paintings and drawings shown at the Princess Theatre in Burnham-on-Sea in April 2022.
Titled Where Water Meets Land, the exhibition brought together 16 works developed from Green’s encounters with rugged landscapes, native plants and changing natural textures during a three-month journey through Scotland.
Drawing as an immediate response to place
Green, a graduate of Falmouth University in Fine Art, used works on paper to record the visual structure of the land. Pencil allowed her to respond quickly to patterns, surfaces and contrasts encountered while travelling, turning observation into a direct and portable artistic practice.
The title of the exhibition reflected her interest in transitional spaces. Coastlines, river edges and other points where water meets land offered a way to study how natural forms overlap and reshape one another. Her attention moved between the scale of the wider landscape and smaller details of flora, texture and terrain.
An environmental sensibility
Green described nature and the environment as central concerns in her work. Rather than reproducing Scottish scenery literally, she interpreted its patchwork of surfaces and used drawing to register the experience of being physically present in the landscape.
The exhibition therefore operated as both travel record and environmental study. Its paintings and drawings preserved impressions gathered on the road while remaining attentive to the distinctive character of place.
Where Water Meets Land was presented at the Princess Theatre in Burnham-on-Sea until 28 April 2022. The display connected Green’s Somerset background with landscapes encountered farther north, showing how sustained observation could turn a journey through Scotland into a coherent body of work.