17 February to 1 March 2026
This exhibition brings together three artists united by a shared fascination with landscape, with three strikingly different interpretations. Each artist explores the land and its inhabitants as both place and presence. Shifting horizon lines reshape familiar views, emotional responses to terrain infuse the work with memory and atmosphere, and the quiet drama of fenlands, wetlands, and moorlands emerges in rich, evocative detail. Together, the works invite viewers to experience landscape not as a fixed scene, but as something felt, remembered, and continually transformed.
Margaret Bird
Margaret is a Lincolnshire “yellow belly”, an Indigo Crow and a member of the Lincolnshire Artists’ Society. She paints abstracted landscapes in oils mixed with cold wax which results in a more textured surface and can provide surprising results.
Margaret takes her inspiration from atmospheric skies, wild, rocky, moorland landscapes, or more recently, the wide open landscape of the fens. Her horizon lines are often indistinct, based on the idea that they are a shifting concept, never in the same place from one day to the next, or from one step to the next.
Helen Day
Helen completed a BA Hons in Textile Design in London at the Central St. Martins School of Art and Design and her early fascination with colour and pattern has since underpinned her artistic practice. Now nearing the end of her career as an art educator in the Secondary sector, she is returning to her passion of creating painted images of the landscape. She develops her paintings from initial sketches made in situ to help reflect her emotional connection to the landscape. Photographs aid her memory when
work is developed back in the studio. The FENLAND body of work seeks to capture the wild beauty of the Cambridgeshire wetlands. Helen’s art has been inspired by the whisper of the wind through the reeds, the wide open spaces, the historical features from the past and the subtle changes of colour in the landscape.
Member Saffron Walden Art Society
Member Haverhill Art Society
Catherine Nicholson
Catherine Nicholson grew up in Lincolnshire before moving away to study Fine Art Sculpture in Manchester and then Bronze Casting at the Royal College of Art in London. She has been painting and exhibiting for many years, alongside teaching Art, Design and Additional Support Needs in Secondary Schools in Scotland. She recently moved back to Lincolnshire to develop her Art. She loves using Watercolour, Acrylic, and Collage materials in many translucent layers to create and represent the British landscape. They often include the secret lives of plants and birds, capturing the exquisite detail and beauty of the natural world.
