Vicki Shortt Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

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I am a landscape artist based in rural Lincolnshire, creating contemporary digital collages from my original paintings. I explore memory, identity and place through layered textures and bold colour, reimagining familiar landscapes. My work blends traditional and digital processes, inviting new perspectives on meaningful locations.

I am a landscape artist based in Lincolnshire, creating contemporary collage works that reimagine everyday places through a distinctive blend of traditional and digital processes. My practice centres on landscapes and landmarks that hold personal meaning – places shaped by memory, identity and lived experience – transforming them into bold, layered compositions that feel both familiar and newly discovered.

I originally studied art in the early 1990s and went on to work for several years as a self-employed creative before stepping away to follow a different career path. Nearly two decades later, I returned to my artistic practice with a renewed perspective and a strong drive to experiment. This period of rediscovery continues to shape my approach, bringing curiosity, openness and a sense of evolution to my work. My process begins with my original paintings, which I scan and rework digitally. By layering fragments of mark-making, texture and colour, I build rich, complex compositions that move fluidly between physical and digital realms. This allows me to retain the tactile qualities of paint while embracing the flexibility of digital tools. Through deconstruction and reassembly, I isolate and emphasise details, often introducing unexpected colour palettes that challenge traditional representations of landscape while maintaining a sense of the familiar.

At the heart of my work is an exploration of how landscapes are experienced and remembered. I am particularly interested in the ways places accumulate meaning – through personal connection, shared histories and the passage of time. In my compositions I aim to evoke both nostalgia and curiosity, encouraging viewers to reconnect with locations that hold significance in their own lives, or to see familiar environments from a fresh perspective.

Experimentation plays a central role in my practice. I continually push the boundaries of the software I use, exploring new ways to manipulate and reinterpret my source material. This ongoing process of discovery allows my work to evolve alongside my changing relationship with the landscapes I observe.

Living in a rural setting provides constant inspiration. The expansive, flat landscapes and vast skies of Lincolnshire, alongside the intricate details of tangled undergrowth, windswept trees and grasses, form a visual language that runs throughout my work. By transforming these elements into contemporary collaged forms, I create pieces that are rooted in place yet open to interpretation, inviting viewers to engage with landscape in a more personal and meaningful way.