Jonathan Trim's work explores the landscape and its importance in human experience. Tracks trails and boundaries that are left upon the landscape are reinterpreted providing a form upon which his ideas can evolve. The paintings begin as evocations of memories emotions or ideas related to the form of the landscape. The shapes colours and textures acquire an initial significance through their relationship with the marks and inscriptions left upon the land. As the painting develops the marking and layering become a personal language of symbols and signs. Before arriving at the final composition the medium begins to dominate the work with colours shapes and textures continuously reworked in an attempt at balancing the tensions created by these elements.

The patches and deposits of golds, earthy reds and pools of blue are tuned to increase the sensual force of the composition whilst creating areas upon which marks and symbols can be drawn or scratched onto the surface. The paintings are often sanded down, scraped and rubbed to produce partially revealed or obscured marks and shapes suggesting pathways boundaries and traces of human activity and occupation.