Blissett’s sustained interest in landscape sits alongside a background in Geography. He graduated from Durham University with a BA in the subject in 2017, before completing an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in London in 2020. Today, his practice considers how our relationship with landscape changes over time, as well as the role painting plays in shaping the way we understand it.

The artist’s own landscapes remain deliberately removed from straightforward representation. “My paintings are rooted in places I have spent time, but they are not literal depictions of those locations,” he tells The Wick. “Instead, I create imagined landscapes that draw on and extend those experiences, allowing memory, observation and imagination to come together.”

The choice to move away from the literal gives Blissett room to reconsider a long history of landscape painting through a contemporary lens. While the places on canvas may be invented, their starting point remains connected to the artist’s own experience of nature. His inspirations include writer Robert Macfarlane and painters Claude Lorrain and J.M.W. Turner, all figures whose work, in different ways, has considered how landscape is encountered and understood.

Earlier this year, Blissett presented ‘Orders of Magnitude’, a solo exhibition with Pilar Corrias. He counts the exhibition among the tangible milestones of his career so far, though his own understanding of achievement stretches back to the decision to commit seriously to painting.

“I think my greatest achievement has been committing to painting as a life and career,” he says. “I would have continued to paint whatever I had done, but to put my work out there was a significant move.”

His Champion is Pilar Corrias, art dealer and founder of the eponymous contemporary art gallery in Mayfair, which held its first solo exhibition with Blissett earlier this year.

The gallery’s support of ambitious projects also extends beyond its Mayfair spaces. Tschabalala Self’s forthcoming Fourth Plinth commission, ‘Lady in Blue’, will be unveiled in Trafalgar Square on 10 September, ahead of London Sculpture Week, which runs from 19 – 27 September 2026 across the city.

For Corrias, Blissett’s work brings a distinctive contemporary perspective to the long history of landscape painting:

“Sholto brings a vital perspective on humanity’s inter-connected relationship to landscape and its place within collective thought. Sholto’s work offers a fresh lens on the history of landscape painting and is one of the most exciting new voices to challenge how we perceive the world around us.

The gallery held its first solo exhibition with Sholto earlier this year, which was a particularly exciting moment. Sholto’s work received a brilliant reception from museums and collectors alike, totally selling out. In October, I will be showing Sholto’s work at Frieze London 2026 as part of a group presentation with Rachel Rose and Georg Wilson. This focused presentation of new work explores the influence of early modern British landscape painting across the three artists’ practices.”