Harmony Hambly-Smith     Crocosmia (Falling Stars),     2025     Foliage and Acrylic on Canvas     Signed, titled, and dated on Verso     182.88 cm x 121.92 cm   /  72 in x 48 in

Working in close dialogue with the landscape, the artist creates her distinctive nature mortes: paintings formed not only by her hand but through the collaboration of wind, rain and sunlight. Each work emerges from a process of both control and surrender, revealing an interconnected exchange between artist, material, and environment. Pigment mingles with the organic matter of the Surrey Hills, which serves as both her studio and her muse.

Through compositions that combine paint with gathered plant life, she invites the elements themselves to participate. Leaves, branches, and petals are arranged upon the canvas, entering into temporary relationships with one another. Over time, weather and light intervene, leaving spectral imprints as pigments react to the forces of nature. The resulting silhouettes, at once delicate and indelible, speak to entanglement and transformation, commemorating cycles of growth, decay, and renewal: preserving fleeting moments much like fossils or memento mori.

Her works encourage the viewer to return to nature, to experience their surroundings anew, and to reflect on the often unseen connections between human intention and natural process, contemplating the fragile beauty of the living world.