Robyn Litchfield

Robyn Litchfield is a New Zealand-born, London-based contemporary artist known for atmospheric landscape painting, forest art and expressive oil paintings on linen and panel. Her contemporary landscape artworks explore memory, migration, cultural identity, colonial history and the emotional experience of belonging between places.

Litchfield’s paintings draw on archival photographs, early postcards, family documents and contemporary images of New Zealand’s ancient forests, waterways and landscapes. Her paintings of Kahikatea swamp forests and primeval woodland combine dense vegetation, dark water, luminous foliage and uncertain horizons, creating landscapes that feel beautiful, mysterious and psychologically disorientating.

Working with transparent oil paint, expressive brushwork, scraping, layering, erasure and stencilling, Robyn Litchfield creates richly textured contemporary paintings that move between figuration and abstraction. Her process recalls the luminous emulsion of early glass-plate photography, while mysterious red forms act as symbols of loss, longing, biodiversity and cultural otherness.

Robyn Litchfield studied fine art at the City Literary Institute and London Metropolitan University before graduating with distinction from the MFA programme at City and Guilds of London Art School. Her exhibitions include Let Time Be Still, London Art Fair and Harvest Moon, while her public commissions include a permanent 16-metre mural for Meta’s London office at King’s Cross. Litchfield’s environmental art connects personal history, ecological fragility and the enduring power of wilderness.