Hello, I’m Tim LeRoy. I’m a visual artist specialising in landscapes.

I am a Teaching Fellow at Winchester School of Art, and I’m currently studying for my Master’s Degree in Fine Art at Falmouth University. DirtMeetsTheWater is where I keep my art and an archive of my writing.

Artist Statement

I am a documentary landscape artist exploring universal questions of identity and belonging, of time and transformation, and of how and why we can call a place home. My current body of work is an ongoing photographic exploration of 21st century pastoral, made with my phone, within the confines of a dozen square miles surrounding my house in the South Downs.

My work is also rooted in memoir and is an expression of my own evolution and development as an artist and a father, navigating isolation, loss and absence, but with a wry smile and a hopeful romanticism. Loneliness and the slow collapse of both democracy and the climate look beautiful from where I am standing, especially through my camera app in the low light before sundown.

We all encounter and react to most of the world through our phones, so this body of work has been digital, phone-made and exclusively online. The work is presented in the style of the endless scroll of a social media grid, or our iPhone photo galleries, so repetition and routine are squared up in the regular rhythms of the precious things we see and record again and again, day in day out, in all weathers and all seasons.

The landscape where I was obliged to make my home is constantly in flux, environmentally and agriculturally, so my work documents and responds to the strains and changes in the fields and hedgerows, and to the political and financial choices made far from this conservative parish.

Modern industrialised agriculture has become evermore precision engineered; yield-maximisation is facilitated by satellite-guided planting, and the tractors and harvesters have grown to out-sized monsters, all of which leave unnatural stripes and straight lines across hundreds of acres.

These growth lines are mirrors of the code that orders and organises our digital lives, and both are catastrophically unsustainable. Are they the scars of potentially fatal wounds? Hopefully there is healing in noting them and documenting them, and I am finding contentment and purpose by drawing them, painting them, photographing them, and making something new and real with them.

Tim LeRoy July 2026