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This work is a continuation of Brown's interest in our relationship to nature, the psychology of landscape and what it means to use it as a subject in the 21st Century.

In these paintings, Brown focuses exclusively on one small area of land in Epping Forest, East London. Hollow Pond, that the work takes its name from, refers to former gravel pits that were dug in the mid-19th century to create the surrounding roads in a rapidly expanding industrial London. In 1905, these pits were expanded into a single lake. This lake, lined by oak trees, has since evolved into a sanctuary for flora, …