Kulbir Bhandal paints abstract landscapes that explore the complex cultural and physical search for place and belonging. Working with acrylics on canvas, her approach is one of distillation and dialogue, translating the natural world’s colors, textures, and forms into a refined visual language. Her compositions blend a deliberate mixture of observed, imagined, and memory-mapped spaces. By employing the "ideal" landscape as a symbolic stage set, she examines themes of cultural displacement, the state of being between worlds, and a nostalgic longing for a sense of home.

This focus stems directly from her biographical journey of traversing vastly different environments—having been born in rural India, raised in London, and now residing in rural England. Kulbir graduated from Camberwell College of Art, studying Fine Art and Art History, and initially worked in London as an art educator and mentor. A transformative move to Dorset’s Jurassic Coast sparked a return to painting with renewed purpose. She now lives and works within an intentional community in Bridport, a setting that further inspires her exploration of identity.