Talitha du Preez was born in a small town in South Africa where she lived for most of her life on a farm. With a national park on her doorstep and frequent visits to the park has cemented a deep love for nature and landscapes. In her teenage years she was drawn to landscape paintings and photos of nature, to further develop her art she opted for a diploma at Ruth Prowse School of Art in Cape Town. There she found inspiration through the colors of J.M.W Turner, the sublime of Caspar David Friedrich and strength of Baroque landscape painters. The final stretch of her Diploma Talitha found herself in lockdown and with no means of purchasing paint or canvases. She initiated experimentation with charcoal, a medium that she found unpleasant and messy to work with. However, through exploration Talitha discovered that charcoal helped her express her longing for the landscapes she grew up in. Charcoal became a medium that she once thought as unpleasant to one of the mediums that she keeps close to her heart. On completion of her diploma Talitha explores the connection she has with nature through charcoal and paint. Drawing focus on the feeling of nostalgia creating artworks that range from painting sublime landscapes with great vastness to charcoal drawings that create a sense of longing and sadness. Her work touches on one of the Romantic era’s themes on portraying the eternal life of nature accompanied with her silent contemplation of her own time that seems fleeting once alone with nature.