Colleen Conti has loved landscape since early childhood growing-up in the woods and mountains of Georgia USA, the rivers and spires of Oxford, and then the rolling South Downs and coast of Sussex. She takes inspiration from both the broad expanse and the intimate close-up. Colleen taught Art for 34 years and led an Art Department for 24 of them. She retired in 2020 to paint full-time and to fulfil the dream of having a studio to work in. Having the time to develop her practice has enabled Colleen to explore different media, technique and approach, and her work has undergone considerable development in the last couple of years, moving between representational and abstract approaches. All Colleen’s work is closely related to landscape even when it is not immediately obvious, there is an absorption in the essential colours, shapes, textures and dimensions of a place.