I am an abstract artist based in Holmfirth. My practice is rooted in an emotive response to local landscapes and a deep sense of place. Through painting and mixed media, I draw on memories of journeys, shifting terrain, and moments of standing within expansive natural environments—both alone and with my young daughter.

These landscapes become a way to explore the tension between the external world and the internal connections formed through presence and movement.

Since graduating from Leeds College of Art in 2007, my work has evolved through varied creative processes, international design experience, and extensive teaching across art education. I now lecture in further and higher education while maintaining an active studio practice in West Yorkshire. After completing an MA in Textile Practices at the University of Huddersfield in 2021, my focus has centred on how making intersects with the environments I walk through.

Using line, repetition, gesture, and layered surfaces, I interpret these walks and still moments through a personal visual language of colour and mark. Working intuitively, I build up paint and materials to evoke movement, energy, and the rhythms of place. The process creates a dialogue between structure and spontaneity, revealing traces of exploration, erasure, and rediscovery—echoing the shifting experience of being in the landscape.

Each piece becomes both a memory and an invitation for viewers to consider their own sense of space and place. Based in West Yorkshire, I have exhibited across the north of the UK. My current work can be seen on Instagram @alexandraglew01.