Pippa Blake's paintings are imbued with soulfulness, and the moments captured in them feel unstable or unfixed, as though the viewer is witnessing the scene from a peripheral viewpoint. The paintings describe uncanny scenes that are at once familiar but so fleeting that they remain just out of reach. The poignancy that comes from this detached perspective evokes feelings that give the work its power and potency. Pippa Blake makes atmospheric paintings about moving through the landscape; the fleeting glimpses this reveals and the emotional journeys it triggers. These paintings are snatches of scenery glimpsed on video calls between Blake and her daughter in New Zealand while unable to travel and visit during the lockdowns of 2020/21. All titles are names of tributaries in New Zealand.