Turner and the Elements showing now at Turner Contemporary, Margate

Ninety-five works by Britain’s best-loved painter, JMW Turner, many from Tate’s collection, will go on show in the major exhibition Turner and the Elements at Turner Contemporary in Margate until 13 May 2012. The exhibition, including a number of works featuring Margate and the north Kent coast, illustrates how his painting technique and the influence of the latest scientific and technological developments of...

Edward Burra ends 19 February at Pallant House Gallery

The Edward Burra exhibition at the wonderful Pallant House Gallery ends 19 February. So get down to Chichester you art lovers and enjoy the beautiful and eccentric work of a great British artist. Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, West Sussex,  presents the first major show for over 25 years of the work of Edward Burra (1905 – 1976), one of the most individual and celebrated British artists of the twentieth...

Dreams of Here: New work by Julian Bell, Tom Hammick and Andrzej Jackowski at the Brighton Museum & Art Gallery from 18 February

A beautiful exhibition of new work by three contemporary painters and printmakers who are all nationally recognised but at the same time have strong connections to Sussex. Bell, Hammick and Jackowski each paint and draw figurative images, yet their contributions are markedly distinct. Brought together, the work of these painters follows the course of a journey from a land of literal description, through the layered...

Guercino: A Passion for Drawing – The Collections of Sir Denis Mahon and the Ashmolean Museum

An adventurous and brilliant draughtsman, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, known as Guercino (1591–1666) was one of the 17th century’s greatest artists. He drew constantly, with a passion that revealed itself in the vigour and intensity of his preparatory studies. He explored, in drawings, different possibilities for literary and religious subjects, landscapes, and scenes of everyday life – which stand alone as...

Nicolas Poussin’s first series of the Seven Sacraments at the Dulwich Picture Gallery

Dulwich Picture Gallery is thrilled to announce another major coup with the opportunity to show the fi ve remaining paintings from Nicholas Poussin’s (1594 – 1665) fi rst series of the Seven Sacraments, painted between 1637 and 1642. This special installation has been organised to coincide with the Gallery’s summer exhibition Twombly & Poussin: Arcadian Painters and presents an ideal opportunity to...

Barry Kirk ‘Frying Tomatoes’ Prints from 1956 – 1965 at the Emma Mason Gallery

Born in Kent in 1933, Barry Kirk studied at Canterbury School of Art and The Royal College of Art where he was taught by Julian Trevelyan. Kirk went on to teach at Guildford School of Art and then Canterbury School of Art, where he later became principal of the College. Kirk began to explore printmaking at the Royal College of Art and continued making prints from the mid 1950s through to the late 1960s. Kirk’s...

Gibson / Martelli (igloo) – VISITOR at Towner Eastbourne

VISITOR is an investigation into experience of place, figure and landscape. Real and invented panoramas depict the beauty and strangeness of the natural world. The gallery visitor is invited into two new installation works – environments inspired by the snow-driven mountains of the Canadian Rockies. Developed during research by the artists at The Banff Arts Centre in Canada, VISITOR brings the awe-invoking and...

David Dawson: Working with Lucian Freud a Pallant House Exhibition

Pallant House Gallery  presents ‘David Dawson: Working with Lucian Freud’ , a new exhibition which offers an extraordinary insight into the notoriously private world of the late great painter Lucian Freud  (1922-2011) through the eyes of his model and studio assistant David Dawson (b.1960).  The exhibition will feature key paintings by Lucian Freud, placing them alongside Dawson’s remarkably intimate...

Pallant House Gallery exhibits Enid Marx: The Eve-Breuning Gift

Pallant House Gallery  presents a new exhibition of the designer, illustrator and printmaker Enid Marx (1902-1998), in the De’Longhi Print Room. A contemporary of Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden and Peggy Angus, Marx’s prolific artistic output included textiles, postage stamps, London Transport posters and book jackets. This exhibition showcases the collection of her prints presented to the Gallery in 2006, shown...

An etcher in the wake of Whistler: Robert Goff by Melanie Brown

The subtly muted papery light emitting from Robert Goff’s most recent exhibition ‘An etcher in the wake of Whistler’ might not immediately draw one into visiting this room in the Brighton Museum. But  to overlook this small and well formed exhibition would be a shame, for Goff’s paintings, sketches and etchings deserve closer inspection. His work demonstrates an almost OCD level of craftsmanship. This is...