“Going Home” by Margret Nutley

“Going Home” by Margret Nutley

£68.00

Size: 40 x 50 cm / 15 x 20″

Framing: Black

Going Home - Margret Nutley -  Available various size prints - Museum-quality premium canvas giclée prints.

“Going Home” by Margret Nutley is a wonderfully tender landscape, full of movement, memory and quiet emotional pull. It has the feeling of a place not simply observed, but remembered — the kind of view that lives inside someone long after they have left it.

The composition is led by the striking tree in the foreground, its bare branches spreading across the sky like a network of thoughts, roots, roads or family lines. There is something beautifully human in the way the branches twist and reach; they seem almost to search the landscape, framing the journey home rather than merely decorating it. The tree gives the painting character and personality, standing as both witness and guide.

Beyond it, the rolling green fields have a gentle pastoral warmth. The soft hills, curving path and distant hedgerows suggest familiarity — a landscape walked before, known by heart. The title “Going Home” adds a deeply emotional layer: the path through the fields becomes more than a physical route; it becomes a return to belonging, safety and memory.

The lower section of the painting offers a lovely contrast. The rocks and water are painted with cooler blues, greys and whites, giving the scene a grounded, almost reflective quality. The water feels still but alive, catching fragments of sky and stone. This cool foreground strengthens the warmth of the land behind it, creating a visual journey from rugged terrain toward the softer promise of home.

What makes the picture especially appealing is its honesty. It does not try to over-polish the landscape. Instead, it allows the brushwork, line and texture to remain visible, giving the work a handmade intimacy. The branches, in particular, have a lyrical quality — delicate, expressive and full of rhythm.

Overall, Margret Nutley’s “Going Home” is a heartfelt and evocative painting. It captures not only countryside, but the emotional geography of return: the familiar bend in the path, the sheltering tree, the quiet pull of a place that waits for us. It is warm, personal and deeply reassuring.

  • Poly-cotton blend canvas with a matte/satin finish. Scratch, crack, and warp resistant.
  • Vibrant, long-lasting colors with water-based HP Latex inks and UV protection.
  • Solid wooden frame from renewable sources, 4 cm deep.

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About the Artists

Robert (Bob) Dennison is a professional artist and a long-standing educator who serves as the Head of Art at Dauntsey’s School, a co-educational independent boarding and day school in Wiltshire.

Professional Training: Bob trained and developed his style at the prestigious Bath Academy of Art. His teachers is essentially a staggering list of the mid-20th-century British modernist movement, a period when British painters and sculptors were redefining abstraction, landscape, and form after the Second World War.

Tony Nutley: A Photographer and Digital artist - Studied with his father, for the most part, self trained with a keen eye for detail and creating images that invite you to really look and reflect.

John Nutley: A Photographer, semi professional with a strong local legacy. 


About the Artists

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