About

Lotte Oldfield is a contemporary British landscape artist whose work continually focuses on where sky, sea and land meet and explores ideas of the sublime. Her atmospheric paintings are semi abstract but are closely linked to observation of the landscape and underpinned by a strong drawing practice. She thrives in the remoteness and solitude of living and working in rural communities and is lucky enough to have lived by the coast in Devon, Dorset and Cornwall and now resides next to the mountains on the Welsh borders, UK. She studied at Nottingham Trent University and Falmouth College of Arts where she obtained a BA (hons) and an MA respectively. After a career in graphic design and illustration she has now turned to painting full time.

My process

“In my work I am interested in capturing the beauty or essence of a landscape, feeling or moment. Often the paintings are an invitation to briefly pause and reflect in an increasingly busy and digitised world. I walk daily and sketch and draw regularly but my paintings are not directly taken from life. Back in the studio I make art intuitively that ‘is’ rather than is ‘of’, and by that I mean the paintings are an emotional response to how I feel about a place and not an attempt to directly replicate what I see. I am influenced by nature writing, the work of Turner and Constable and also that of the Abstract Expressionists such as Joan Mitchell.”

Photography credit on this page Matthew Davidson