Julie Brook’s art is an engagement with landscape and resulting out of this, an art stream of her discovery of what it means to her. She has a multifaceted approach in which she captures elements of natural landscape; lightly ‘drawing’ symbols on to or introducing elements into the landscape; or extracting landscape as a material to utilize in her drawings on paper. Her photographs of her explorations of the made and unmade in landscape capture a moment in time, and the washing away or erosion of Brook’s paintings on a landscape, underscore the land’s permanence and power over human intervention. While the drawings on paper using sand and other found materials, including natural pigment, are likely to also be ephemeral, the beauty of these extractions as part of a landscape on paper, is magnified. Somehow the viewer apprehends the landscape’s dominion /

River Bank 5, Red Marienfluss Valley, NW Namibia /

Sea Foam Drawing:  Mingulay, Outer Hebrides – sea foam residue on paper /

Suspended Pigment Drawing 11, Series 3 – Otjize and Ruacana pigment, pastel on paper /

Suspended Pigment Drawing 3, Series 3 – Otjize pigment, pastel on paper /

Yellow Earth Drawing – Tarskavaig earth on paper /

Cone – pencil on paper /

Pigment Drawing 1, Red Circle: Mingulay 1, Outer Hebrides /

Pigment Drawing 1, Red Circle 2: Mingulay, Outer Hebrides /

Flue –  Zimbabwean earth and watercolour on paper /

Made, Unmade Exhibition – pigment drawings /

Black Line on Black – Contè on paper /

Ash Drawing – seaweed ash on paper /

River Bank 2: Kunamub River, N of Warmquelle, Namibia /

Desert Drawing 4, Yellow Series 1 – desert clay, pigment on paper /

Pigment Drawing 3, Series 1 – otjize pigment on paper /

Pigment Drawing 6: Coire Lagan, Skye – yellow ochre pigment /

River Drawing 2: Mingulay, Outer Hebrides – river sediment on paper /

Sea Drawing: Mingulay, Outer Hebrides – red iron pigment on paper /

Sand Drawing 9: Idehan Aluwam, Libya /

Inversion, Dusk: Clandonald Castle Gardens, Armadale, Isle of Skye – painted steel /

Inversion, Night: Clandonald Castle Gardens, Armadale, Isle of Skye