“her surface remains controlled, the result of a slower, more meditative approach to painting. The craft, at first an apocalyptic disruption and then a kind of archaeological dig to isolate its survivors, now becomes an intimate act of stitching or healing. Across her berry surface Horberry makes tiny synaptic flashes – with line and mark; with paint and support – forming an interconnectedness across the painting. That fabric of nexus is, as her title suggests, born from her love of her Scottish Highland homeland and by her desire to immerse herself (and her viewer) in that place. Colour, whilst strange and discordant, pays homage to the heather of her homeland so that which would seem to disturb the truth or hegemony of the earth does, in fact, celebrate it. Landscape here betrays space and even place but, importantly, the direct connection it has with the artist: a space born of rupture but held together by the most considered, exquisite craft, transporting the terroir of place into a mosaic of memories.'“

Scene XI: a world of dew, A Conversation in Paint with Abbie Horberry and Aaron Kudi

Matt Carey-Williams, Sandy Lane, Wiltshire, May 2025