Joseph Mallia

I climb and paint the mountains and crags. My paintings are portraits of places – not a moment or a generic landscape impression, but specific, from where I stand.

I’m a painter of wild landscapes. I love the solidity and wilderness of the mountains and crags where I’ve climbed, close-up and personal – straight to the point, tracing the climbing lines, discovering the edges. I’m excited by a buttress or a particular mountain shaped by ice, wind and water; the way they stand out, tough but impermanent, cracked and worn.