Since the beginning of time, humans have drawn Nature, into clay, on cave walls, on pots, inside tombs, on bark, stone, papyrus and eventually on canvas, paper, wood etc. The land is part of us, around us and among us. Our response to place has wrought paintings that are figurative, spiritual, impressionistic, formal, abstract.

Environment is another word for landscape… where we interact with, respond to, preserve or record impressions of our experience of place, and our visceral connection to its beauty and wildness and wonder.

The desire to record and bring landscape into inhabited built spaces, to bring Nature indoors, began in ancient indigenous, Aramaic, Hebrew, Egyptian, Grecian and Roman times, as if one could transfer the essence of being in landscape and keep this inspiration with us permanently. The Romantic Era brought us such aesthetic concepts as the Pastoral, the Picturesque and the Sublime. 

Much later, the Impressionists, Surrealists, Modernists and Post Modernists re-imagined landscape in ways which were both disturbing and unsettling, yet fascinating and strangely beautiful and beguiling.