The Artist Room presents a monumental pastoral landscape by William Brickel.
A lumbering brown and grey tree trunk sways sideways while reverberations of yellowy-grey light appear to splay from its roots in shock waves. Above, a canopy of shadowy foliage swoops down like army netting, partially concealing a distant view of rolling hills. Closer to us, graphic strands of dark green grass swirl up in neat arrangements beside more bunched tufts that shoot out in little groups. This landscape feels both ominous and liberated, a meeting of the pastoral and the psychological. – Sean Burns, Frieze