Flux #202511
At this critical moment in our environmental history, it has become increasingly difficult to celebrate the landscape without acknowledging our deeply flawed relationship with it. Flux # 202511 emerges from this tension as a re-imagined landscape, one that resists fixed representation or narrative. Rather than depicting a place, the work situates the viewer within a space that remains just out of reach: fluid, immersive, and quietly consuming.
The vertical field of colour operates as a liquid expanse, shifting between richness and void, atmosphere and absence. It suggests memory rather than location, evoking a landscape that is sensed rather than seen. This smooth, continuous gradient is disrupted by a raw, fractured edge – an exposed strata that speaks to erosion, extraction, and fragility. The juxtaposition of refined surface and rough materiality reflects the uneasy relationship between human-made precision and the organic unpredictability of nature.
Through reduction and abstraction, the work distils the essence of landscape rather than describing it, holding opposing forces – permanence and impermanence, control and chaos – in quiet suspension. Flux # 202511 invites a slow, contemplative encounter, offering space and time to reflect on a landscape no longer present, one that persists only as trace, memory, and loss.
Paul Snell
2026
Mixed media on print face-mounted 3mm matte plexiglas, backed with extruded polystyrene, concrete, acrylic, enamel and pigments

