Scorched Earth Without Worth (2025)

“Scorched Earth Without Worth” by contemporary abstract artist Tim Willcox explores environmental change and habitat loss through layered texture and vivid colour. A mixed-media landscape highlighting the fragile balance of nature.

This painting reflects on the damage we’re doing to our green spaces - the thinning forests, the fields burnt to nothing, the places that once felt endless and alive now pushed to the edge. I wanted the colours to feel bright and inviting at first, because destruction rarely arrives looking dramatic. It creeps. It’s normalised. It starts with “just this once.”

The burnt orange band cutting through the landscape shows the cost of that slow neglect. Above it, there’s still growth and life, but underneath, the layers tell a different story - scorched soil, exhausted land, and the sense that something precious is slipping away.

This isn’t meant to be hopeless. It’s more of a gentle nudge to pay attention to what’s right in front of us - before we convince ourselves it will always be there.