Landscapes/ volume 94

Landscape has long been one of the most enduring subjects in art, yet it remains anything but static. In Collect Art Magazine, Special Edition Volume 94, we turn our attention to landscape painting not as a fixed genre, but as a living, evolving field—one that continues to absorb personal memories, political tensions, environmental concerns, and emotional resonances. The artists featured in this edition approach landscape as both place and metaphor, terrain and testimony.

This special edition brings together international painters whose works span diverse geographies and sensibilities. From expansive horizons and intimate fragments of land to imagined terrains shaped by memory and feeling, the landscapes presented here reflect the many ways artists encounter and interpret the world around them. These are not simply depictions of scenery; they are spaces of encounter where inner and outer worlds intersect.

Across cultures and histories, landscape painting has been shaped by shifting relationships between humans and their environment. Today, this relationship feels especially urgent. Climate change, displacement, urban expansion, and ecological fragility inevitably inform how contemporary artists engage with land, sea, and sky. Within this volume, some works carry an explicit environmental consciousness, while others approach the land as a site of contemplation, solace, or personal mythology. Together, they reveal how landscape painting remains a vital lens through which artists reflect on change, resilience, and a sense of belonging.

The painters included in Volume 94 employ a wide range of approaches and techniques. Some work en plein air, responding directly to light, weather, and atmosphere; others construct landscapes from memory, imagination, or abstraction. Gestural brushwork, layered surfaces, and experimental use of colour coexist alongside more restrained, meditative practices. This diversity underscores the adaptability of landscape painting as a medium capable of holding both immediacy and reflection.

Accompanying the artworks are artist biographies and statements that offer insight into each painter’s relationship with landscape—how specific places, journeys, and lived experiences shape their visual language. For many, landscape is deeply personal, bound to childhood memories, migration, or a sense of rootedness and loss. For others, it functions as a conceptual framework through which broader ideas of time, perception, and human presence are explored.

The personalised interviews included in this edition further expand these perspectives, revealing the processes, questions, and uncertainties that underpin each practice. Through conversation, artists reflect on why landscape continues to matter, how their work has evolved, and what it means to paint place in an increasingly mediated and unstable world. These dialogues remind us that landscape painting is not about reproducing what is seen, but about translating experience into form.

At its core, this volume asks how landscapes shape us—and how, in turn, we shape our understanding of them through art. Whether depicting remote wilderness, cultivated fields, coastal edges, or imagined spaces, the works presented here invite viewers to pause and consider their own relationship to place. They encourage attentiveness, empathy, and a renewed awareness of the environments we inhabit, remember, or long for.

Collect Art Magazine, Special Edition Volume 94, celebrates landscape painting as a space of connection—between artist and land, viewer and image, past and present. In bringing together voices from across the world, this edition affirms landscape not as a backdrop, but as an active presence within contemporary painting: layered, complex, and deeply human.