Natural Phenomena | Melanie Field Solo Exhibition | 29 April 2026
In this new series, Melanie Field moves deeper into the intuitive, bodily, and elemental practice that defines her work. These latest paintings emerge through a process that is less directed than surrendered to - a form of deep listening and receiving.
Many of the works undergo several lives, processing and shifting through multiple iterations before arriving at their natural and organic conclusion. Rather than imposing an outcome, Field follows what the painting asks of her, letting intuition, instinct, and gesture, shape the unfolding process and work.
Across this evolving body of work, the canvases span a wide emotional and tonal spectrum. Some arise from deep, ore-red/burgundy grounds; earthy, shadowed, and full of subterranean pressure - while others open into pale, transparent, veiled pieces. Together they form a continuum, a conversation between what lies hidden and what emerges, between contraction and expansion, darkness and illumination. These shifts are not oppositions but tensions in the same living field.
The paintings hold their own atmospheres: places that feel both grounded and ethereal, familiar yet otherworldly. Through layered gestures, veils of colour, and the slow accumulation and subtraction of paint, Field creates realms that breathe, vibrate, and shift; subtle phenomena that invite the viewer into a deeper kind of seeing. They are not landscapes in any literal sense, but territories of sensation, memory and experience, shaped by intuitive forces that lead each painting through its gradual, natural evolution.
This body of work extends Field’s ongoing exploration of nature, intuition, duality, and the delicate balance between surrender and emergence. The resulting paintings form a constellation of quiet revelations - works that have lived many lives before arriving here, offering openings into states of presence, perception, and awakening.