Stephanie Fawbert is an artist whose landscape and figurative paintings reflect on human courage, survival and vulnerability within natural landscapes. Her paintings suggest an idyll but a place that is also about the unknown and that nature is not always benign or beautiful.
The figures in her paintings are immersed in nature, in their own solitude, but also vulnerable and exposed… The work is about that unpredictability of existence in the ‘natural world’ and a sense of anxiety and quiet dramas that can lie within these seemingly perfect lush environments.
Even though the pieces celebrate nature and our place in it, the paintings are not a nostalgic journey into times gone by, looking back to scenes of an idealised past, but an exploration of an interior world which reflects ideas of both connection and disconnection with nature, a grappling with time and mortality.
More recent body of work hints at more hopeful relationships, a reciprocity between humans and the world around them.