How can life be? It can be a Norfolk Broad, teeming with life in the water, through the reedbeds and within the Carr Woodland. It can be a meadow left to wildflower itself, alive with insects, blossom and birds. It can be sunshine and shade, still or windblown, warm or cold. It can be calm, peaceful and safe. Does it feel safe at the moment? Does any of it feel safe? Do we feel danger inching towards us? Once again, do people feel the fear engendered by dangerous, self-serving leaders? Are we caught between the deadly ambitions of men desperate for more power? And do we all feel the heat of the war we wage upon our own planet? And what a planet we have: brimming with an enormous variety of life. Beautiful, dramatic, outstanding and unique. Infinitely entwined and connected. Yet we have changed it, and continue to do so. Those changes now burn through forests, raise ocean levels, flood homes and ruin crops. The chickens are coming home to roost. Everything, children, women, men, animals, trees, minerals, the earth and all it contains seemingly becomes a resource to be exploited, leading us, dragging us, to where we now are. In this exhibition, Roger Steel grapples with some of these issues: with perpetrators and victims, destruction and areas that appear, more or less, intact. How it is, how it can be, could be, and should be. Roger Steele received his art training in Canada, completing a three-year Fine Art Diploma followed by a two-year postgraduate scholarship. He remained in Western Canada for a further seven years, working in the art world and exhibiting his work. 14 years after leaving England at 19, Roger returned permanently. He has lived in Norwich for 31 years, longer than anywhere else, reflecting his deep affection for the city and county. Roger has always had a strong connection with the natural world. For the past decade, his work has explored how humans perceive nature and how societies are destroying the delicate balances that sustain life as we know it. In this exhibition, Roger seeks to express his fear and anger at the destruction caused by humanity, while also interspersing these works with images that reflect how life can be and, in his view, should be.