​Kulbir Bhandal is a painter and a graduate of the Camberwell College of Art, where she studied Fine Art and Art History. Her abstract landscape paintings explore the complex, cultural and physical search for 'place' and belonging.

Kulbir’s career began in London, where she worked as an art educator and mentor. The transformative shift in her practice came with her move to the Jurassic Coast in Dorset, allowing her to return to painting with renewed focus and purpose. She now lives and works within an intentional community, a setting that further informs her exploration of human connection to environment and identity.

Working with acrylics on canvas, Kulbir’s approach to painting is one of distillation and dialogue. She translates the natural world, its colours, textures, and forms, into a refined visual language. Her compositions draw inspiration from a deliberate mixture of observed, imagined, and past spaces.

The central impetus for Bhandal’s work stems directly from her biographical journey: born in rural India, growing up in London, and now residing in rural England. This experience of traversing distinct cultural and physical landscapes has made the idea of finding place and cultural belonging an integral part of her paintings.

Kulbir often employs the ‘ideal' landscape as a symbolic stage set.  Within this setting, she explores themes, of cultural displacement and the feeling of being between worlds. A nostalgic longing for a sense of 'home' that may have never existed or dreamscapes that will never be. 

Through this exploration,  Kulbir Bhandal invites viewers into spaces that are personal yet universally relatable, asking where we locate ourselves amidst shifting memories, cultures, and landscapes.

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