This painting explores what it feels like to find yourself inside a landscape that has been taken over, divided, valued, and transformed by human desire.

I have been exploring the relationship between land and space, and the complicated question of who gets to occupy, own, use, or profit from a place. Land is often treated as something available to be parcelled, sold, developed, and extracted from. Yet beneath those systems is a living landscape with its own history, presence, and limits.

Gold bars move through the water, transforming the stream into a conduit for wealth. They reference resource extraction, commerce, and the movement of value away from the places where it originates. The saturated colours create a landscape that feels seductive and alive, while also carrying a sense of unease and instability.

I am interested in how these forces affect our psychological relationship with place. What happens when somewhere we experience as home becomes a commodity or resource? How does our sense of belonging shift when the landscape around us is continually being redefined?

The painting becomes a heightened landscape where beauty, extraction, ownership, and belonging collide.