Ruth Bateman is an emerging contemporary artist working in North Devon and Cornwall whose practice pursues and questions the concept of the sublime and sense of place. Landscape and connectivity play an important role in her work as much as her concerns around climate awareness and environmental preservation. Bateman explores the landscape with her body: rock climbing, mountaineering, and cycling. This bodily experience of landscape is reflected in the kinetic way she creates her painting. Allowing herself to be entirely instinctive with paint; the mark-making and choices of colour are initially intuitive and spontaneous, being tamed and refined as the painting evolves.