Location: Guildford Institute

Event type: Talk

Hosted by: Monica Popham

Monica Popham is a Gibraltarian landscape artist based in London. Her work is inspired by the Mediterranean light of her upbringing in Gibraltar, exploring how sunlight interacts with architecture. Through vivid colour and bold compositions, she often transforms everyday shadows cast by palm trees, washing lines, or windows into subjects in their own right, capturing the warmth and stillness of sunlit spaces.

In 2024, Monica won Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year, which led to a major commission for the London Science Museum, where she created a piece reflecting Orkney’s pioneering renewable energy landscape. Since winning the competition, she has been working as a full-time artist, continuing to expand her practice and explore the emotional power of light in her paintings.