In this episode I’m exploring how to build your own personal symbol language as an abstract landscape artist.

I’m not talking about obvious icons or literal symbols - but the intuitive marks and gestures that show up again and again in your work. Those quiet shapes that seem to belong to you, even if you’ve never named them.

I walk you through how to begin observing your own recurring marks and how to intentionally build on them - not to restrict your freedom, but to deepen your connection with your work.

This Week’s Creative Invitation

• Pull out 6–10 of your recent paintings or sketches and look for repeated gestures, marks, or shapes.
• Start a symbol journal where you record and experiment with the marks that feel like yours.
• Choose one of those marks and bring it into your next painting on purpose. See how it behaves when you let it lead the composition.
• If you’re inside my Abstract Horizons membership, I’d love for you to share an image of one of your pieces and tell us about a symbol or mark that keeps surfacing in your work. What might it represent for you?