Leise Wilson’s love of skies and open spaces is reflected in her large, sweeping watercolors showing cliff faces, ranging fields and sprawling coastlines.

Growing up in London, Leise was drawn to the Great Outdoors, whatever the weather. Regular visits to her family in Kent prompted a passion for the mysterious light of the coast and an eye for fleeting shades and colours.

Now that skill is on show on the Kent coastline that helped develop it, with an exhibition by Leise at the Updown Gallery at Satis House in Ramsgate.

Independent art writer and critic Simon Foxall says of her work: “Wilson’s obsession with light is elemental to the point of abstraction. 365 Days is a single work comprised of a painting of the sky through a single windowpane every day for a year.

“The resulting work is a painting installation that explores the unpredictable natural rhythms of light that influence us each day, while going so often unnoticed. Her unpeopled landscapes are free from human noise and distraction.”

He adds: “There is an unearthly stillness and quiet, more silent than our own experience of the landscape could be; so quiet, she says, that one could hear the snow fall.”

The exhibition runs until Sunday, April 19.

Visit www.updowngallery.co.uk or call 01843 588181.