Tamar Payne’s mixed media collages, silk-screen prints, photography and paintings reframe contemporary landscape. The Alps have been the locale for the artist’s recent focus on climate change and the delicate balance of glacial landscapes. Her recent series of work 46 Desgrees North presents a playful exploration of colour, pattern, form and media, exploring the line between abstraction and figurative art.

Featuring the mountains, lakes and coastlines of Europe, work featured in this series celebrates areas of natural beauty at a time of environmental urgency. The flowers featured in Tamar’s work were all photographed in Monet’s garden in Giverny. The lily pond is also featured in the Madame Claude collage.

Tamar Payne draws inspiration from the traditions of Surrealist abstraction and European Romanticism. Taking the mountains and lakes of Europe as her predominant subject matter, she uses paint, photography, and silkscreen prints to shift perspective and manipulate depth of field, portraying her surroundings not in their natural form but with a technicolour, dreamlike vision.

Tamar Payne’s work acknowledges that we carry multiple landscapes around with us; memories of the landscapes of childhood, the places in which we have lived and the landscapes of travel, all of which enter our imagination and become dream spaces, places of escape and transcendence. These particular landscapes seem acutely precious now as glacial and coastal areas are threatened by climate change. Paradise Lust, WIA Gallery 3 Fisher Street, Lewes BN7 2DG to 13 May 2023.