The Fading Wild

In this is oil and ink collaboration, artists CB Sherlock and Joanna Hallstrom share wild places where comfort and nourishment are found and received. Their works ask us to remember our childlike and cohesive relationship with nature and acknowledge it’s intrinsic value in the context of our global environmental crises.

Joanna Hallstrom’s paintings place nature and adolescence in harmony, united by wonder and mutual affinity. Her animals are protective, standing like sentinels next to their their young friends. The space they share is unlikely outside of imagination. The fading background isolates the figures is a nod to an unsettled future.

CB Sherlocks’s musical depictions of trees, clouds, grasses, and land, flow in form and contrast. She wraps emotion into each pen and brush stroke. Her wayward depictions of the woodlands and sky are interwoven with letterforms that, on closer look, are the repeated words of the environmental activist, Greta Thunberg.