The Lost Art of the Land

At the start of 2024 I decided I wanted to make a short film about how I explore and connect with landscape through art, and how others in the past and present also feel this connection. I also wanted it connect science and art as one, as I have found through my PhD research.

Thanks to support from the Geologists’ Association’s Curry Fund, the History of Geology Group and the John Muir Trust’s Des Rubens and Bill Wallace Grant I have made my first short film!

How do you connect with the land?
For generations, humans looked deeply at the landscape around them and explained what they saw with stories, art, and expression. Eventually this became a search for truth, science.
Today we are told that science and art separate, that you must choose between them.
Phoebe is a Geology PhD student and artist based in Aberdeen, Scotland. In July 2024, Phoebe took her watercolour sketchbook on an Artist’s Residency with Sail Britain to the Small Isles and the Isle of Skye on the West Coast of Scotland. Following in the footsteps of early geologists to document the rocks and landscape creatively while climbing, walking, and sailing around the islands. Together we discover that true connection and understanding with nature is much closer to us all than we think.
Funded by the History of Geology Group, the Geologists’ Association’s Curry Fund and the John Muir Trust’s Des Rubens and Bill Wallace Grant.

I am submittign the film to film festivals across the UK and hopefully further afield depending on the response!