DAISY DODD-NOBLE: THE LAND IS SPEAKING

MASSIMODECARLO is pleased to present The Land is Speaking, Daisy Dodd-Noble's first exhibition with the gallery in London.

June 25 – August 21, 2026

For eighteen months, Dodd-Noble returned to the same water meadow in a garden in Wiltshire - through one winter, one spring, one long summer, and back round again - and painted what she found there. The premise sounds methodical, a kind of fieldwork. What emerged from it was something closer to a courtship: the longer she looked, the more the meadow had to say.

This is the territory the exhibition moves through - not nature as scenery, but nature as someone you might come to know. The idea that the land is in communication with us has long been a recurring theme in English folklore, as well as in many cultures around the world. Across generations and geographies, the land has been understood as inhabited by omens, by guardian beings, by forces that warn, guide, and reveal. Modernity tends to file this under superstition, a charming misreading later corrected by science. Dodd-Noble's paintings make a gentler, more obstinate case: that the instinct wasn't a misreading at all, just a different kind of attention - one that pays off if you're willing to stay still long enough to receive it.