Visual Strolls
seasonal residency
Visual Strolls is a residency space for artists who share an affinity for landscapes and wilderness, inner and outer. Foresta is changing with every season as the real forest does. In cyclical circularity it celebrates changing seasons of nature and of our lives. As snow melts away, as days grow longer, as leaves change colour, as they fly with the wind, as stillness settles in, as warmth returns, as birds cross continents — at the turn of each seasonal moment we invite a different artist to bring a new time of the year to Foresta by creating a portrait of time that later becomes part of the permanent Museum of Seasons.
Spring 2020 Artist in Residence
Nicolas Burrows
Nicolas is a London-based multi-talented artist working across disciplines, as an illustrator, author of books, and musician (who can be found under the name Fell). He is working primarily with collage compositions, colour experimentations, and inventions of objects that make life more fun as well as invite reflexivity and collaboration. Discover a selection Nicolas’ abstract, playful, intuitive work in the gallery below.
Spring 2020 Portrait
“I have never lived in the forest, but I have spent a lot of time seeking out the company of trees. From the North-West of England, to the Norwegian Fjords and the West coast of Canada I have walked and thought and sung and written and drawn. I love the arboreal writing of John Stewart Collis, Roger Deakin and Ronald Johnson. I can well understand the sentiment behind Collis’s quote from his book ‘The Woods’: “I lay there enjoying myself, harming no man, selling nothing, competing not at all, thinking no evil, smiled on by the sun, bent over by the trees, and softly folded in the arms of the earth.”
Cover image by Nicolas Burrows