Painting

Simone Bizzell-Browning’s painting practice is a lyrical exploration of transformation, mythology, and the deep textures of the natural world. Her paintings weave together elements of dream, memory, and landscape, creating scenes that hover between the real and the imagined. Working with layered colour, texture, and form, she constructs visual narratives that feel both familiar and otherworldly — spaces where sea meets sky, where birds and plants seem to speak, and where the boundaries between living things begin to blur.

Simone’s use of colour is distinctive: rich blues and greens evoke watery depths and twilight forests, while flashes of orange, gold, and rust pulse with warmth and hidden energy. These contrasts suggest cycles of transformation — decay and renewal, shadow and illumination. Her compositions often feature recurring motifs which serve as a symbol of connection between the human and more-than-human world.

Texture plays a central role in her work. Through layering paint, glazes, and sometimes collage-like elements, she builds surfaces that seem to hold traces of time and memory. The resulting images are both painterly and tactile — maps of imagination as much as depictions of place.

Rooted in the landscape and folklore of West Wales, her paintings invite viewers into contemplative spaces where myth and nature converge. They are meditations on transformation and belonging, on the thresholds between seen and unseen worlds.