A moor is not a mountain XIV Northern lights Just as the land holds

Just as the land holds traces of centuries of human activity and natural change

Threads of Light (Down the Valley) captures the moment the sun slips behind the hills and a soft hush settles over the landscape

and have inhabited

using oils and cold wax to create depth

and fleeting—holding onto the last traces of daylight just a moment longer

A moor is not a mountain XIV Northern lights Just as the land holdsIn this series of smaller paintings, Paula works with oils, cold wax, and embedded materials such as pigments and marble dust to create surfaces alive with texture and depth. Each piece emerges through an intuitive, exploratory process, where colour, mark making, and chance interplay freelypaint drips, solvent trails, and incidental textures become the starting point for the composition, guiding the work as much as the artists hand. These instinctive