Forest End

Hitchens saw nature in painterly terms as a series of objects and spaces, which he translated into rapid and seemingly spontaneous brushstrokes. He described the relationship between his painting and nature as “the art of converting the three-dimensional natural appearance of nature – plus its overtones, into an ordered and ‘intentioned’ sequence on a two-dimensional canvas – so that all is ordered to a certain end, yet the result still appears ‘like nature’.”