In Cennini’s Libro dell’Arte, the Tuscan painter’s handbook for aspiring 15th century artists, you will find the story of ‘a yellow colour called ochre’.
In swaggering views of stately homes and resurrectional portraits of crumbling church ruins, the art of John Piper draws power from its sense of place.
In paintings like 'Reflections', Brendan Neiland reveals the dance of light that plays out daily on the glass towers and cars that dominate our landscape.
With its rich conflation of mythological resonances, Joe Tilson’s cryptic wooden 'Caerdroia' labyrinth offers the viewer little by way of illumination.