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The Wilderness Art Collective is a group of creatives, artists, explorers and environmentalists whose work discusses the natural world.

18/05/2026

The secrets out 🔊

Our group exhibition ‘Under the Same Sky’ is moving to PaintSpaces Gallery in London, with two new Wilderness Collective Artist members!

If you missed the show at Sandra Higgins Art in Bath, you have another chance to see it, plus you can talk to our artists directly on Meet the Artists Day.

📍 PaintSpaces Gallery, 167 Broadhurst
Gardens, London, NW6 3AU
📆 Open 6th - 7th & 13th - 14th June 2026, and by appointment
🕰️ 11am - 4pm
🧑‍🎨 Meet the Artists | Saturday 6th June | 11am - 4pm I No booking required

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Artwork credits - Anthony Garratt ‘Wolf Moon’

31/03/2026

If you’re near to Kent, our member is hosting a Two Day Colour Making Course at her studio🌿🎨

June 25 - 26 | 10am - 3pm (lunch & refreshments included)

Join Polly Bennett in Rolvenden, Kent for an immersive two days exploring natural pigment making. You’ll create your own palette using materials from the landscape - from ochres and lakes to bone and verdigris.

Learn how to make watercolours, inks, pastels, and your own painting tools, while connecting to the history and process of colour.

You’ll leave with: • Handmade paints, pigments, pastels & inks • Colour charts & notes • Your own tools • The confidence to keep making

Perfect for artists, nature-lovers, or anyone curious 🌱
 No experience needed.

✨ Limited spaces - learn more and book via Polly’s bio.

28/03/2026

Today is your last chance to see our show ‘Under the Same Sky’ - on view at Sandra Higgins Art, Bath, before it travels to PaintSpaces Gallery in London, opening on June 6th.

This group exhibition explores the sky as a shared, unifying presence, a space of light, atmosphere, and connection that stretches across place and experience. Expanding on earlier themes of land and water, the show brings together a rich mix of painting, drawing, and mixed media works rooted in the natural world.
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Don’t miss it.

26/03/2026

On show at Under the Same Sky .art

Dehydration (I)
Dried mud on paper
30 x 41cm (framed)

Dehydration (I) explores the transformation of earth drying in the intense heat of the sun. All the elements play a part, the earth itself, the coastal wind, the sun’s heat, and the water mixed into the earth.

The metamorphosis and uses of earth pigment is an ongoing focus in Polly’s work.

24/03/2026

On show at Under the Same Sky .art

Speculative Landscape 002 ‘Quartz’
Acrylic and oil on canvas
51 x 40.5 cm

Speculative; Adjective
1. engaged in, expressing, or based on conjecture rather than knowledge.
2. (of an investment) involving a high risk of loss.

They are also reminiscent of places; both imagined and maybe remembered from another painting, a film or writing. Some are sci-fi, some cinematic, some more realistic and some barely need enhancing at all, a readymade landscape that just needed to be framed.

23/03/2026

On show at Under the Same Sky .art

NYC Skyline
Etching on Somerset Paper 51 x 86 x 3 cm (framed)

NYC Skyline, an etching made following a trip across the Atlantic, considers the interaction between sky, urban space and river. The sky’s expanse contrasts with the tightly-packed, high-density buildings. This reminds the viewer that the multitude of human experience plays out continuously under the same, ever changing, sky.

22/03/2026

On show at Under the Same Sky .art

Becoming Rock: Farleton Knott, Cumbria.
Black and white photographs (printed on foamex)
40 × 40 × 0.3 cm
Limited edition photographic printwilson

My photographic images were made after a pre-invasive breast cancer diagnosis that led to multiple surgeries, including mastectomy and reconstruction. I placed myself within rocky landscapes, especially Farleton Knott’s limestone - echoing the breast “calcifications” that raised concern and prompted me to say, “I am becoming rock.” Over months of visits, sky and stone reflected my evolving body and emotions.

21/03/2026

On show at Under the Same Sky .art

Concerto 902 (detail)
Graphite
64 x 42 x 5 cm (framed)

While the insects are quiet I find myself watching the birds, returning to a moment when Starlings rose from the surrounding fields, a whisper, a breath, until the air was filled with movement. Through graphite’s special qualities - lines and dust, contact and erasure, and the slow accumulation of tone, the forms slowly emerge only to disappear.

18/03/2026

On show at Under the Same Sky .art

51 Woven Waves (detail)
55 x 47.5 x 3.5 cm (framed)
Organic cotton greige gauze fabric on raw canvas

Under the same sky, tides, bodies, and memories move in quiet correspondence. Wan Lin Chang’s practice traces these unseen currents through painting and textiles. In Woven Waves and related works, deconstructed fabric charts love and loss, while woven threads measure the emotional distance between earth and the moon, linking horizon to longing and gravity.

17/03/2026

On show at Under the Same Sky .art

Layered Drawing (detail)
Ink on organdie
42.5 x 32.5 cm

This series of layered drawings made on hanging layers of cotton organdie express the rhythms of the breeze, currents and counter-currents observed in places ranging from rivers in France to a reservoir in the Bulgarian Balkans. Her interest lies in the way water gives visual form to the seen and unseen forces in nature, forming a connection between earth and sky.

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https://www.wildernessart.org/

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