Anthologia II: Katie Trick | A Short Story of Falling by Alice Oswald

For the second instalment of our year-long Anthologia series, we invite Welsh painter Katie Trick to respond to Alice Oswald’s luminous poem A Short Story of Falling.

Oswald’s words trace the cyclical journey of water — falling as rain, flowing through rivers, vanishing into air — a meditation on renewal, persistence, and the quiet transformations that sustain life. Trick’s paintings mirror this sense of flux. “Using the landscape as a means to explore painting, or painting as a means to explore a landscape,” she works intuitively, allowing forms to emerge from the process. Lines take on the cadence of rainfall, colours pool and drift like light across water, and a place — both familiar and elusive — gradually reveals itself.

In Trick’s work, as in Oswald’s poem, nothing is static. The landscape is ever-changing, a shifting chorus of patterns, stories, and fleeting moments held briefly in view before they dissolve again. Her canvases invite us to sit, look, and listen — to feel the intimacy of a place that is always moving, always remaking itself.

All works are available for sale online throughout the exhibition.