In conjunction with the Autumn Arts Trail, Aleph Contemporary presents Landscape in Our Midst, an exhibition of recent works by Gloucestershire artist Deborah Cox.
Cox challenges the English tradition of the landscape as a purely idyllic vision, instead uncovering the unseen realities embedded in the land—histories of ownership and colonisation, the impacts of intensive farming, and the ecological crises unfolding in our midst.
Working between field, car, and studio, Cox uses acrylics, pastels, collage, and reworked prints from her archive to translate lived experience and aerial perspectives into layered compositions. Her canvases, often informed by Google Earth imagery, echo both the beauty and brutality of the contemporary countryside.
Drawing on influences from Turner’s skies to Diebenkorn’s abstractions, and in dialogue with current environmental writings such as Robert Macfarlane’s A River Alive, Cox reimagines the Wye Valley and beyond. The works oscillate between seen and unseen—between pastoral surface and urgent ecological truth.
The exhibition forms part of the Autumn Arts Trail open studio weekends (18–19 & 25–26 October 2025),
