Miranda Carter - artist

Miranda Carter at home

Water is the first place we belong.

Before it becomes river, rain, or sea, water carries us and is carried within us. We return to it repeatedly: to drink, to escape, to begin again. These paintings explore humanity’s enduring pull toward water, presenting landscape as an embodied and immersive experience.

 We need water not just as a resource, but as a source of wonder and reflection.

My recent work resonates with Rebecca Solnit’s essay 'The Blue of the Distance’. Where land blends into water and horizons disappear. Solnit describes blue as the colour of longing: the place we can see but cannot yet reach. In these paintings, veils of mist, shifting light, and dissolving forms create imagined terrains that exist between perception, memory, and emotion.

These works consider water as a place to become lost in thought, suspended in a reflective and dreamlike state. Where birdsong and the wildlife of the riverbank slowly reveals itself.

Like being by the water’s edge, I hope that my paintings invite viewers to drift into spaces of contemplation and immersion.