Emergent Worlds

Imagined Terrains

Emergent Worlds gathers abstract landscape studies that seem to hover between geology, memory, and dream. The images suggest oceans, deserts, submerged worlds, glacial fields, river systems, and imagined planetary terrains without resolving into fixed locations.

Rather than documenting specific places, the collection explores the moment when texture begins to behave like landscape and abstraction starts to feel inhabited.

About the book

A collection of abstract environmental studies exploring imagined oceans, terrains, atmospheres, and hidden worlds through texture, light, and layered painterly processes.

Stream flowing through a forest with green and brown colors
Small fish swimming in a shallow water area with a textured brown and blue background
Dinosaurs walking along a river in a lush, green landscape
A glowing aerial view of luminous blue waters resembling a submerged reef at night.
Beach scene with a crescent moon and star in a purple sky over the ocean.
Abstract painting of a whale in blue ocean waves

Details

Format
8.5 x 8.5 Hardcover
Purchase
Available by request
Author
Art and text by Paula Phelan
Year
2026
Pages
22 pages