Short Walks In An Ideal Mediterranean Forest (2022) is a painting and audio installation that portrays a reflective journey exploring personal and ecological loss.

Through collaborative therapeutic acts of walking, conversation, and painting, my partner, Juana Flores Vegas, and I share events that followed a time spent at the Joya Arte + Ecologia artist residency in Andalucia, Spain.

We reflect on the effects of drought and desertification, species extinction, land abandonment and modern agriculture, whilst coming to terms with Juana’s cancer diagnosis – connecting climate grief and personal bereavement through our shared sense of anticipated loss.

To listen select the orange play button above.

Oil on canvas, 360 x 120 x 4cm
Audio, 27 minutes 48 seconds

Painting, Sound, Edit: Hannah Scott and Juana Flores Vegas
Audio recorded on location at Joya Arte + ecologia / AiR in Spain and in Shaftesbury and London UK.
Thanks: Caroline Fawcett, Ruth Gilbert, Anna Stamper

Installed at: Reimagining Joya exhibition at Thames-side Studios Gallery, London, UK, 26 August – 11 September 2022; CaminArte 2024, Churriana, Malaga, Spain, 26 January – 22 March 2024

The project is supported by the A-N Time Space Money 2022 bursary.