Joe Webster

Joe’s ‘landscape-graffiti’ paintings explore the relationship between human activity and nature.

Joe revels in working plein-air, composing love songs for nature in colour and light. But in the 21st century there is a paradox. To Joe, bucolic landscapes feel clichéd, or naive. The bliss and purpose he gains from his relationship with nature sits beside the grief of solastalgia whilst witnessing its degradation. He layers urban and wild motifs to bridge and interpret this contradiction, presenting viewpoints of today’s ‘broken-beauty’.