Countryside 

Countryside Monotype on Paper by Alicia van Thiel

Countryside, monotype on paper, is exhibiting at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2025 London, UK

Inspired by the island landscape I call home, shaped by the wind, light, weather, and time.  Countryside is not about capturing a single view, but responding to the quiet, ever-shifting rhythm of the land.  What draws me to monotype is its ability to mirror the landscape's own fleeting nature. Created by painting directly onto a plate and transferring the image to paper in a single press, each monotype is completely unique, much like the landscape itself. Layers of texture and gestural marks mimic the interplay of wind through grass, light across fields, and shadow on soil. I am not rendering a scene but translating an atmosphere. A moment suspended between observation and emotion.