In dreamy seaside and pastoral landscapes, British painter and drawer Nikki Wheeler evokes idyllic places and people magically preserved on canvas. Her gentle, impressionistic application provokes a windswept nostalgia, visions of places on the edge of time preserved by little more than collective memory. Wheeler's iconography juxtaposes modest markings of civilization with the sweeping enormity of the British coast's natural landscape. Her seaside visions, village scenes and fishing narratives are rendered in a sober – melancholic, even – palette dominated by blues and greens, with bursts of yellows, reds and oranges where the coast and countryside meet.

The self-taught painter nestles stout coastal architecture, town activities and naval structures between massive, billowing skies, frothing seas and shimmering grasses. Wheeler's work thereby evokes lives lived more in tune with nature, moving at the rhythm of the seasons, in time to the rolling waves of the bountiful sea. These visions function nearly as an escape from our modern crises, but ultimately reveal how much is at stake.