For the 2023 season, The Hannah Peschar Sculpture Garden has commissioned Jessica Doherty to paint a series of eyes onto one of the trees in the Bamboo Garden. The ongoing concept is inspired directly from nature, where the artist has accentuated the ‘burls’ of the trunk and transformed them into abstracted eyes.

Doherty’s is a visual Artist who focusses on creating atmospheric and ethereal paintings as a response to her love of the natural environment in all its' seasons.

From her childhood home in the UK (Surrey), where access to the dense forests of Holmbury and the rolling hills of the North Downs, helped create a strong passion for nature’s colours and forms through Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. As she continues to reside across the UK, the location subject matter of inspiration changes, but a common denominator of forests, mountains and hills remains. Painting rural landscapes is a way of connecting and showing her appreciation for our fragile natural world, but the visual recreation of locations are also sentimental places for her, where each image holds a unique story to accompany it. 

Over the past 6 years, her artwork has shown a strong influence from traditional landscape artists of the 18th and 19th Centuries, with whom she shares the view that light is the real subject of landscape and hopes to occupy the space between romantic English Realism and Impressionism. Through painting light, atmosphere, and perspective with accuracy, she endeavours to create a sensual and emotional illusion of place for the viewer.

Jessica Doherty continues to welcome a variety of commissions, and she is contactable through her website found here.