Hayley Anne Montague is a contemporary painter whose work moves between botanical abstraction and gestural landscape painting. Rooted in the British environment, her practice explores the expressive rhythm of nature through layered mark-making, texture, and movement.

Working intuitively, she translates the feeling of the wild — the shift of weather, the structure of foliage, the quiet persistence of growth — into works that bridge emotion and place. Her paintings capture the tension between stillness and motion, inviting the viewer to experience the living landscape through colour, rhythm, and depth.

Montague’s work sits comfortably within contemporary abstraction while retaining an elemental link to nature. Each piece carries the atmosphere of the outdoors inward, transforming interior spaces with the same energy and presence found in the wild.

Guided by a belief that art should feel as alive as the spaces it inhabits, Montague creates wild botanical paintings for dark and atmospheric interiors — works that complement rich palettes, layered textures, and homes that embrace depth and contrast.

Each piece begins outdoors. Sketches, photographs, and fragments of colour collected on walks through the British countryside form the groundwork for new paintings. Back in the studio, those impressions are layered with intuition — paint meeting canvas in gestures that feel both deliberate and spontaneous.

Texture is central. Pigment, wood, and surface are chosen for their character, not perfection. Many works are designed alongside interior concepts — where painted furniture, wall panels, and art form part of a single, atmospheric composition.