Becki Zaffino United Kingdom
My practice explores landscape as a contemporary and evolving discipline, rooted in the traditions of academic art yet driven by personal experience and emotional investigation. I approach the landscape not simply as a subject to be represented, but as a living space of memory, movement, and transformation
My practice explores the relationship between landscape, memory, and the embodied experience of place. Rooted in the traditions of fine art painting and technical drawing, my work investigates the tactile dialogue between artist, medium, and environment Landscape, for me, is an active, dynamic presence rather than a static backdrop. Through painting and drawing, I explore the rhythms and transience of the natural world — tidal processes, wind through grasses, the gradual erosion and renewal of surfaces. These gestures record moments of immersion, echoing the sensory experience of being within a landscape rather than observing it from afar. Materially, I am drawn to mediums whose unpredictability resists total control, introducing a living quality to each piece. Colours evolve, surfaces change, and the work continues to transform over time. Each composition becomes both an observation and a meditation, a study of how memory, emotion, and material process intertwine. Ultimately, my practice seeks to reveal the quiet beauty in flux, decay, and renewal, the subtle dialogue between nature and self.
