Sarah Cunningham’s Wild Forests and the Colors That Refused to Behave
Sarah Cunningham’s art didn’t just depict nature—it tangled with it. Raised on the edge of English woodlands, Cunningham grew up seeing forests not as static backgrounds, but as living, unruly systems. Her paintings burst with color and energy, blurring the lines between tree, animal, and human—a direct challenge to the tidy categories science likes to impose.
Instead of neat landscapes, Cunningham’s canvases explode with sweeping gestures and bold, unpredictable hues. Her forests become almost abstract, as if the details have been swept away by a storm of blue, green, and red. She once described her process as building a sense of place, only to tear it down and start again—mirroring the wild, cyclical rhythms of nature itself.
Cunningham’s work reminds us that the natural world resists easy definitions, and sometimes, the most honest art is the one that lets chaos in.
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