Amy Shuckburgh creates expressive landscapes in soft pastel on canvas. Drawing inspiration from rural, coastal and urban environments, her pictures capture the movement, atmosphere and emotional resonance of place, through vibrant colour, simplified forms and energetic mark-making. Amy uses Unison Colour soft pastels on specially primed large-scale canvases, working in sharp, jagged lines, dashes and scribbles, and resisting blending or smudging, to leave surfaces rippling and vibrating with energy.
Her landscapes feel both remembered and imagined, evoking fragments of memory, and multiple experiences unfolding simultaneously. Amy’s work can currently be seen in ‘Where We Meet’, a solo presentation at MADE in the Pewsey Vale Gallery on until Saturday 4th July in Wiltshire, as well as in an exhibition titled ‘In The Blink Of An Eye’, a one-woman show at Avebury Manor near Marlborough, and also in a group show titled ‘Dreaming In Colour’ with Laura Long Contemporary in Castle Cary, Somerset.
Artist Amy Shuckburgh presents Where We Meet at MADE in the Pewsey Vale from 25 June to 4 July 2026. The London-based painter draws much of her inspiration from rural and urban landscapes, with two further exhibitions taking place in Wiltshire and Somerset this summer. Bringing together around a dozen large-scale works, the exhibition features expressive interpretations of well-trodden paths across London and beyond, rendered through restless pastel marks and vivid colour combinations.
Amy is a London-based artist who works in soft pastels, oil paint and collage, creating expressive paintings full of life. Her work spans rural and urban landscapes, still life and figurative subjects, with a strong focus on colour, gesture and atmosphere. Across all areas of her practice, she aims to create images that feel alive, intimate and deeply connected to the world around her. She draws inspiration from the West Country, as well as other places such as Wales and France, which she translates into energetic, painterly images that flirt with abstraction. She is equally drawn to the quiet beauty of everyday objects, which she explores through still life compositions that celebrate colour, form and texture.
Where We Meet is a new exhibition of soft pastel landscapes that explore familiarity, movement and human presence through colour and gesture. Working with bold palettes and energetic mark-making, Amy creates scenes that feel at once personal and universally recognisable. Though the paintings are rooted in observed places, they resist fixed geography. Streets, pathways, parks and communal spaces emerge not as specific locations, but as environments shaped by memory, atmosphere and encounter. The works invite viewers to recognise something of their own experiences within them — the feeling of passing through, returning to, or briefly sharing a space with others.
The canvases rarely contain discernible figures, yet they remain animated by human activity. Amy’s brusque pastel marks and vivid colours suggest the lingering frequency of passers-by just out of sight. Up close, the surfaces appear fractured and chaotic, and from a distance, the jagged, unblended lines begin to settle into coherence. Rendered in layers of energetic pastel, the works balance immediacy with ambiguity, inviting viewers to pause within spaces that feel simultaneously fleeting and familiar.
“My external landscapes are preoccupied with how my environment affects my mood. Inspired by expressionism and Fauvism, I augment colours, abstract and simplify shapes, and use dynamic brushstrokes to convey the emotion felt in a place. I frequently use poetry as a catalyst for my compositions and in the titles of my work.”
Amy Shuckburgh
The exhibition’s title speaks both to the encounters implied within the landscapes and to the paintings themselves as meeting points between artist and viewer. These transitional and communal spaces become sites of projection and recognition, where individual memories intersect with shared experience.
Prices range from £550 – £1,695
The exhibition will remain online for a few weeks at https://www.madeinthepewseyvale.com/wherewemeet
