Lyon has crafted a distinct style, creating his own visual lexicon of mark making and motifs, from dots, dashes, triangles, and crosses to more referential repetitions of clouds, birds, and tree shapes. The paintings, although drawn from Lyon’s locale of Sussex, England, are imagined landscapes. Expanding on Paul Nash’s concept of ‘genius loci’ – the spirit of place, Lyon thinks about how we as visitors activate the landscape and how the landscape activates us. Walking, looking, and recalling this ‘activation’ are key to the process of making each painting.