/ Since 1999, Sean Scully’s Landline paintings have led a transition from what John Caldwell called ‘the asceticism of his earlier black paintings’ towards the ’emotion, space, colour and physicality’ [i] of a more expressive style that has traced the world’s contours. As Scully says, ‘I change, of course, and hopefully expand’. In the Landline series, Scully seeks to paint his ‘sense of the elemental coming-together of land and sea, sky and land … the way the blocks of the world hug each other and brush up against each other.’ [ii] The series works as a guide for how to look at or feel the natural world