These are paintings from my current body of work investigating a pre-WWI wireless receiving station on near-to-me Morgan's Hill. The top of the hill has been a favourite of mine for some time but the older wireless station was new to me. It's radically different-looking at every season while the concrete aerial footings stoically stay the same.

To begin with, I draw outdoors in front of the landscape sitting in wet grass in waterproofs or in the summer dust, whether that's at home in Wiltshire, or on field trips to places like Dungeness or North Uist. This is for me to look closely enough at what's there to download the important parts to memory. I use notes for colour — a Galaxy chocolate-coloured field or taramasalata-coloured shingle. Back at the studio these working drawings are translated into larger drawings and colour paint sketches.

These beginnings then become semi-abstract paintings that are as much about the feeling of a location as they are a representation, and invite the viewer to look through the surface of the painting to the sense of the place itself.

Laura Barnard is an artist who studied Drawing & Painting at Edinburgh College Of Art and then became an illustrator for two decades. For the past three years she has painted semi-abstract landscapes, with