An exhibition of artwork by Rachel Rogers and Paul Miller

4th to 16th November at Indigo Crow Gallery

Two Visions of Landscape

Perspectives brings together two artists whose work, while distinct in language and method, shares a deep reverence for the landscape and its power to move, inspire and transform. Through abstraction, texture, and colour, both artists invite us to see the natural world anew – not as something distant, but as a living presence that continues to shape how we see and feel.

Rachel Rogers

Rachel is an abstract painter whose inspiration is rooted in the landscape. Indeed, it could be argued that she is a landscape painter who chooses to use abstraction as her personal language.

Certainly, there are areas of the British countryside that are sacred to her: the Wolds and Fens of Lincolnshire, and further afield, the coastal waters of Norfolk, Wales, and Cornwall.

Rachel’s warmth and self-effacing manner masks a steely resolve to craft strong images of line, tone, and above all, colour.

Paul Miller

Perspectives – the name of this exhibition – in the thesaurus is an alternative name for landscapes. It also suggests different viewpoints, an apt brief description of what we have tried to achieve with this show.

Landscape, and an evocation of it, uplifts the spirit. It has rhythms, movement, pattern, texture and colour – a music and poetry of its own.

To reproduce those elements, it is essential to be out in the landscape; whether making marks whilst working plein air, or absorbing as much as one can while there, to develop a piece of work on returning to the studio.

I use mixed media – anything that scribbles, scrubs and scrapes – to produce colourful and thought-provoking images through a mixture of control and, sometimes, just by happy accident.

Together, Rachel Rogers and Paul Miller present a dialogue of vision and technique – two interpretations of the same enduring muse: the landscape. Perspectives is both a celebration of place and a testament to the many ways artists continue to see, feel, and translate the world around them.