JOAN HUDSON

I am really pleased to be back at Studio 3. I’ve been connected to the gallery since its foundation, and it is lovely to return with a new body of work.

This time, I’m showing a series of abstract landscapes inspired by walks along the Somerset and Cornish coast. These paintings began with intense observation — noticing colour, texture, and rhythm while out on the beaches — and later took shape in the studio through a mix of materials and media. Each piece is a way of revisiting those moments and letting them unfold in a different form.

Having worked mostly in a representational style in the past, I’ve started to explore abstraction as a kind of conversation with myself — drawing on years of looking closely at the world and allowing that experience to shift and stretch me. It’s been a refreshing change, and I’m enjoying the process.