Steve Brockett: To Carry and Be Carried

Steve Brockett’s exhibition extends its reach beyond the physical landscape into the complex terrain of our relations in the living world — it speaks about the bonds between human and animal, and the care, burden, intimacy, and strain that define those connections. Just as our emotional attachments shape how we inhabit the world, his paintings reveal how landscapes can inhabit us in return. In Carried and Be Carried, memory and intuition merge like interdependent lives, giving rise to an inner geography of empathy and tension. Through shifting layers of colour and abstraction, Steve traces not only the contours of Almería’s desert and rural Wales but also the psychological landscapes of attachment — those places where connection carries weight, and where care becomes both shelter and tether. His work invites viewers to sense this reciprocity: the way we carry the places and creatures we love, even as they, in turn, carry us.