One Tree, One Year

Image: Lisa Losada, Magpie Study #2 (detail), 2024, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 cm. Image courtesy the artist. 

One Tree, One Year

Lisa Losada 
12 August  – 8 November 2024

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Looking deeply and closely at individual trees and plants is both a meditative practice, and an opportunity to value the often small and overlooked. My work engages with the emotional responses we have to physical places, the slippage between observation and experience, and how we can become embedded in landscape through familiarity, observation and care.  

My current practice involves a series of works of the roadsides and gardens, of the Piccadilly Valley, and an exploration of nature as both nurturing and wild. I am especially interested in how we ground ourselves and shape ourselves around our environment as a form of external autobiography.  

The work asks the viewer to slow down and engage with the same kind of detailed observation… a slow revealing of the complexity of each branch and leaf.  

Studies have shown that natural environments can have benefits for human health. For people who are not able to walk into the forest, I hope my work offers the same opportunity for calmness and contemplation.  

‘In all things of nature, there is something of the marvellous.’ ~Aristotle  

This exhibition was part of SALA Festival