These Artists Make You Walk Through Fields Without Leaving Home

There’s always a subtle shift inside us when we stand before a painting of a field, a forest, or a distant horizon.” That’s the quiet magic of landscape artists. Their work goes beyond simply showing trees, skies, or mountains it invites us to truly feel the scene. The warmth of sunlight on our skin, the calm of an open sky after a long day, the way a winding path through the woods can awaken memories and stir wonder these moments are brought to life on the canvas, lingering long after we look away.

Landscape paintings are never only about places. They are about us, our emotions, our stories, our longing for stillness in a busy world. A field can remind you of childhood summers. A stormy sky might echo moments of change or resilience. A winding river can feel like the rhythm of life itself. These artists transform what we see every day into something deeper, something that lingers long after we’ve walked away from the canvas.

At the Arts to Hearts Project, we love how landscape artists gently remind us to slow down and really see the world around us. In their work, nature isn’t just something pretty to look at, it becomes a mirror, reflecting our own feelings, memories, and moments of stillness. A painting of a sky, a field, or a mountain can suddenly feel like home, or like a story we’ve lived before. This week, we’re celebrating the painters who bring the outside world closer to our hearts, turning landscapes into stories of love, memory, and the simple joy of being alive.

Alexandra Oliver @alex_oliver_art

When Alexandra Oliver lifts her brush, she paints more than landscape; she paints how a place feels. Having completed her degree in Fine Art with History of Art at the University of Leeds, she underwent training at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy followed by an MA in Fine and Decorative Art & Design at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London. Alexandra blends classical techniques with an attentive eye for light, colour, and atmosphere. Her landscapes don’t simply show fields, skies, or distant horizons. They linger somewhere in the quiet spaces between memory and moment. Perhaps a sky at dusk feels at once vast and comforting; or a meadow suffused with golden light reminds you of somewhere you once walked. There’s a calmness in her compositions, a softness in the transitions between light and shadow, and always an invitation: to step in, to breathe, to remember.

Alexandra’s participation in recent exhibitions including Britten Pears Art – Summer Contemporary 2025 at Snape Maltings, From East to West at Gallery East, and her solo show Viridis at Artspace in Woodbridge, Suffolk have shown how she moves between scenes, mood, and perspective without ever losing that human touch. Her work asks: what does it mean to belong in a place that stretches to the horizon? And how does light change what we remember about a setting? For her, landscape is not just terrain, it’s possibility. Every canvas becomes a space where shapes of trees, expanses of air, distant hills, or softened skies become doors to emotion. Through her art, Alexandra Oliver becomes one of those landscape artists who remind us that even the most familiar view can carry surprise, solace, and a whisper of wonder.

Mikko Tyllinen @mishelangello

Mikko Tyllinen, also known online as Mishelangello, is a self-taught Finnish artist whose work reminds us that landscape is as much feeling as it is sight. Based in Helsinki, he moves fluidly between traditional and digital art, always seeking to capture not just what the world looks like but what it means. His landscapes often feel dreamlike, mysterious. He builds them through layers of colour, light, and symbolism all dancing together. Some pieces feel familiar, like early morning fog over fields or misty forest paths; others pull you into more abstract spaces, where the horizon blurs and colour leads. For Mikko, every brush stroke or pixel is a chance to open a small door into emotion, memory, and the indescribable magic of nature. 

What makes him one of the landscape artists who linger in the heart is this: he isn’t just reproducing what he sees but interpreting what he feels. Whether through digital oil painting that mimics traditional textures or watercolour scenes that glow with soft edges, he gives nature a voice. And that voice speaks of hope, of mystery, of the soul’s connection to earth, sky, and the world between. Mikko’s work has touched people far beyond Finland, too. He’s exhibited in countries across Europe, France, Italy, Spain, England and worked in many different mediums. His art has been collected privately, shared digitally, and celebrated for its emotional resonance and symbolic depth.  For Mikko Tyllinen, landscape is never just background. It’s presence, memory, invitation. His paintings ask us not only to look but to feel the wind, light, and possibility in each horizon. To remember that the places we pass by might hold more than meets the eye.

Jodi Miller @jodimillerfineart

When Jodi Miller paints landscapes, she isn’t just showing us wide horizons she’s painting what hope feels like. Based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, her work is instantly recognizable: sprawling skies, energetic brushstrokes, textures that let you sense wind, light, and distance. Jodi Miller With acrylics and large brushes, she builds her canvases in layers of colour, of light, of metaphor. The sky in her paintings isn’t just a part of nature; it becomes something bigger. It’s endless potential, growth, renewal. It feels like promise, like a stretch of possibility beyond what we see. Jodi’s travels and love for impressionist masters show up in her style not as imitation, but as inspiration. She takes what she’s seen in her journeys, what she’s felt in quiet moments, and blends that with her own voice.

Her landscapes are both familiar (you know that sky, that stretch of land) and filled with something new, something alive. She’s been recognized widely exhibited across North America, collected in Australia, and praised for how she weaves identity into landscape. Her work doesn’t simply depict; it reaches out. It asks who we are when we stand beneath a big sky, how we grow when we allow the horizon to stretch us. To Jodi Miller, landscapes are about wonder. Every sky, every brushstroke she paints is an invitation to pause, to look up, and to remember that even the everyday land around us carries beauty, meaning, and the possibility of renewal.

Anna Corbishley @annacorbishleyart

Anna Corbishley paints coastlines the way some people remember dreams: bright, shifting, and full of mood. Based in Bristol, England, her art draws you into the wild beauty of Cornwall and the untamed edges of the Southwest, where ocean meets sky and the horizon feels endless. Her inspiration comes not only from what she sees, but from how the coast makes her feel: the stillness, the space to breathe, and the quiet reminder that the sea has its own rhythm, one that carries you if you let it. Working mostly in oils, Anna builds her canvases with both softness and texture. The sea doesn’t just rest in her paintings it pulses. The skies don’t just hover, they move. Her cool blue palettes whisper peace, while sudden edges of grey or darker tones capture the drama of waves breaking or clouds sweeping in. Every brushstroke seems to carry the same patience as the tide, sometimes steady, sometimes restless, always alive. She often describes her work as carrying calm and mindfulness, emotions rooted in those long hours of simply being in wide, open spaces.

What makes Anna’s art so moving is the way it connects. You don’t just see the coast in her work, you feel it. The salt air, the changing sky, the hush of waves it’s all there, reminding you of moments you may have lived by yourself. Looking at her work, you don’t just see the coastline you feel the atmosphere wrapping around you. Her paintings have that rare ability to slow your rhythm, to quiet the noise of everyday life, and to let you settle into a gentler pace. Her seascapes aren’t glossy postcards of perfect beaches. They are love letters to the sea’s moods, to its unpredictability, to the way light and water can move through us as much as around us. They remind us that nature doesn’t have to be extraordinary to be profound. A stretch of coastline you’ve walked a hundred times can, in Anna’s hands, become something quietly magical, a mirror of your own memories, emotions, and need for stillness. Through her exhibitions and community connections, Anna shares this vision with others, inviting them to experience the coast in its truest form: not as a backdrop, but as a living presence. Her paintings remind us that the sea has endless ways of speaking to us sometimes in whispers, sometimes in waves and that listening to it is a way of listening back to ourselves.

Natasha Angelique @natasha.angelique.reid

Natasha Angelique Reid’s creative practice lives at the meeting point of landscape, art, and design. As founder of Matter.Space.Soul, she explores how spaces, whether gardens, public places, or artistic interventions can shape the way we feel and connect. Her work often moves beyond the boundaries of traditional architecture to touch something more intimate: our relationship with nature and each other. Trained as an architect at Cambridge University and later earning her postgraduate diploma with distinction, Natasha brings a sharp eye for form and structure. But it’s her sensitivity to atmosphere, texture, and landscape that gives her projects their soul. 

A meadow reimagined as a gathering space, a path framed by light and shadow, or a quiet corner designed for reflection her work invites people to slow down and feel the world around them more deeply. Her practice has been recognized not just for its beauty, but for its focus on wellbeing and inclusivity. Natasha serves as a “Healthy Places & Inclusive Design” advisor for London boroughs and is active as a Fellow with the Center for Conscious Design and an Associate with the Quality of Life Foundation. Features in Wallpaper*, Elle Decoration, and other publications highlight her role as both designer and artist, rethinking how landscapes can be lived. For Natasha, landscape is never only terrain it is memory, belonging, and possibility. Through her art and design, even familiar places are transformed into spaces of connection, care, and quiet wonder.

Landscapes aren’t only about trees, skies, or fields. They’re about us the way a view can tug at a memory, soften a heavy day, or remind us of something we didn’t know we were missing. These artists show us that a painting of a sky can feel like hope, a coastline can feel calm, and a wide horizon can feel like freedom.

At the Arts to Hearts Project, we love how landscapes slow us down. They make us breathe a little deeper, look a little closer, and remember that beauty often lives in the simplest places. A painting can suddenly take us back to summers as a child, a walk with someone we love, or just the comfort of being still for a moment.

That’s the gift these artists give us  not just pictures of places, but reminders of what it feels like to be alive, to notice, and to carry those quiet joys into our everyday lives.