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From Gainsborough to Hitchens: Why the Artists Before Us Matter
It's a beautiful, clever exhibition, with a really clear, succinct mapping of how contemporary landscape painting developed, from the early 1920s right through to the painters of the 1990s. If you paint, or simply love landscape, go and see these works in the flesh.
British Landscapes: A Sense of Place is at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, until 1 November 2026.
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Me and Trevor at the Regency Townhouse “Inside the Box” exhibition [photo by Alex Stanhope]
October Coastal Journal
A quick round up of September, from my October edition of Coastal Journal
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Late Summer: East Head, West Wittering (2026)
Go Big: Painting the Coast on a Grand Scale
There was a time when a massive canvas intimidated me. All that white space, all that surface to hold together. Now I look at a big canvas and think: I cannot wait. After thirty years of experimenting with paint, I finally feel ready to bring everything I know to a scale that matches the landscapes I love.
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Curious and Curiouser: Inside The Box
This week I'm taking part in something unlike anything I've done before. A genuine step out of my comfort zone, but one well worth doing, I feel.
Inside the Box opens at the Regency Town House in Brighton on 3 September, and the premise is exactly what it sounds like.
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Ink, White Spirit and Glue: the Start of my Visual Language
Artist Shazia Mahmood revisits a rare 2000 chromatography painting, exploring process-based technique and the MFA training that shaped her visual language.
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