Fresh Paint

Alfie Carpenter

Finding a landscape painter who enjoys communing with nature is not particularly rare. There is clearly something to be said for working en plein air, with all the extra observed details and greater sense of connection to a subject that comes with being out in the world.

Nevertheless, it is unusual to find an artist like Alfie Carpenter who not only packs up his paints to take out into the field, but also brings a bag filled with papers that he will use to add collage textures. Far from being a distraction, he feels these extra elements simply add a greater sense of urgency to the