In James Isherwood’s recent landscapes, elements are rarely as expected. Skies are bright pink or yellow, the grass is not always green, and mountain ranges are kaleidoscopic. The artist has found a place where fantasy and reality merge to create a third zone, one led by imagination and memory. Atmosphere and place settle the surroundings. Quiet and parallel to the natural and manmade, the paintings connect places both visited and imagined.

The illogic of the seemingly concrete within the works confront assumptions based on perceptions of what is real. Mixing the intuitive and organic with an empirical approach, the paintings illuminate complex inner contemplation, questioning notions of place, stasis, reflection and our personal navigation of public and private.