In a country long shaped by the pastoral ideal, artist Rebecca Howard has spent two years asking what ecological restoration truly looks like — and found an answer that unsettles centuries of English aesthetic convention. Her nine large canvases, born from visits to rewilding sites across England, place beaver-gnawed trees, fungal deadwood, and brown beaver pools at the center of a visual argument: that recovery, not tidiness, is the deeper form of beauty. Opening at Knepp estate in West Sussex on September 12, the exhibition arrives at a moment when the cultural imagination may need to catch