Scottish artist Hazel Battersby creates paintings that are dynamic and expressive and invite you to look closer and discover exciting layers, marks and flashes of colour. The paintings are inspired by landscape but remain essentially abstract. Inspiration often comes from visiting remote locations within the UK, observing, and experiencing the landscape. The act of walking, exploring, and observing the ever-changing environment is part of the journey and process. Through exploration of mark-making, drawing and collage, both abstract and descriptive properties develop, and as they extend into paintings this continues to shift and change. Back in the studio, a process of building up the physical layers of paint and media helps to encourage depth of mark-making, colour and shifts in composition. The work draws inspiration from the experience of landscape but develops through the physical process of painting.
Her work is rooted in landscape, inspired by visiting remote locations within the UK, but remains essentially abstract.