Keith Cunningham’s landscape artworks, encompassing both drawings and oil paintings, offer a spare, compelling vision of the natural world, filtered through a highly personal and abstracted lens. Cunningham presents space as structure and memory, as something felt as much as seen. His drawings often begin with familiar elements, such as a horizon line, a stretch of ground, a tree or architectural fragment. Yet, they are quickly pared down, simplified and distilled. What remains are essential forms and relationships: masses, edges, lines of force. This reduction is not a rejection of nature, but a way of intensifying its presence.

In his oil paintings, the landscapes become denser and more tactile. Wide surfaces are layered with pigment, reworked and built again. Earth tones dominate — ochres, reds, browns — giving the works a grounded, almost geological quality. These paintings, in particular those inspired by his trip to Spain, suggest places shaped by time, marked by erosion, history and memory. Cunningham’s landscapes are quiet, often minimalistic but never empty. They evoke endurance, solitude and the traces of experience embedded in terrain. They reflect his wider concerns with abstraction, material and the expressive potential of reduction. These are not views to be admired from a distance, but spaces to be entered and felt.