Contemporary Landscape Painting and Rewilding: Andrew Gifford and Donald Teskey in conversation with Kate Humble

Interest in rewilding has increased sharply in recent years across Europe: from journalists and policy makers to artists and architects. Rewilding is a progressive approach to conservation, it’s about letting nature take care of itself, enabling natural processes to shape land and sea, repair damaged ecosystems and restore degraded landscapes. Through rewilding, wildlife can return to its natural rhythm. This interest in rewinding has parallels with the renewed popularity of contemporary landscape painting. Instead of Claudian idylls of parkland, now the pressing environmental need is for rugged, messy, unkempt wilderness; untamed rivers, wild coasts, clumps of untidy brambles and hedgerows that promote wildlife. And what we find in the paintings of Gifford and Teskey are elemental landscapes. Gifford and Teskey are artists who immerse themselves in nature at its wildest, and have a great interest in the environment and rewilding.

Join us to discuss the parallels between painting and rewilding as artists Andrew Gifford and Donald Teskey discuss their artistic practice and engagement with the environment with Kate Humble, nature and wildlife presenter.

Proceeds will donated to Rewilding Britain: https://www.rewildingbritain.org.uk

Image: (detail) Andrew Gifford, Spring Light in the Hawthorne Copse, Waterhall, 2023. Oil on canvas, 153.5 x 201 cm. Copyright The Artist and John Martin Gallery.