seasons

Seasons invites you to experience a year in nature. Winding sinuously around the gallery, the installation takes the visitor on an experiential voyage through the year: opening with spring, before looping almost full circle through summer, autumn, and winter. The work is both an end and a beginning, a reflection on the passage of time and a call to action.

‘I have always wanted to observe the seasons daily, taking in every element, looking at the sky and my surroundings and absorbing the change of season through plant life. Living in Britain, we are fortunate to have four distinct seasons: I would like the viewer to have a solitary moment to immerse themselves in these, and in the rhythm of the earth.’
- Rebecca Louise Law

Central to Rebecca Louise Law’s practice is the value of the natural world. Seasons includes around 250,000 flowers, which have been carefully preserved and reborn as artistic materials. Some of the flowers date back to 2004: their beauty and colour given life in death. Woven through the installation is material foraged from Compton Verney, 120 acres of grounds, including oak branches, pinecones and daffodils.

nature diaries

In November 2019 Rebecca began to keep daily records of nature. This involved writing, drawing, and preserving aspects of the natural world in notebooks, and recording the sights and sounds of nature in a daily Instagram diary (@rebeccalouiselawdiary), from which she created a film.

pAINTINGS & Weaves

Seasons was commissioned before the onset of the global pandemic, but recent events have made the project more resonant. Lockdowns throughout 2020 and 2021 grounded Rebecca at her home in Snowdonia, giving her ‘the gift of time’. Her poignant nature diaries, paintings and colourful natural weaves were created during an unprecedented period in global history. Law describes the process of observing and recording nature daily as nurturing and healing - a sentiment shared by many who found solace in the delights of nature unfolding on their doorsteps.