An exhibition of landscape works by Sussex artists curated by Rowena Easton, Artist and Art Director, ROSA Magazine.

“The show’s title comes from William Blake’s celebrated poem ‘Jerusalem’, which I use as a starting point to think about the landscape in art. In particular, the Sussex landscape, which inspired Blake’s ‘green and pleasant land’ (he was living in Felpham as he wrote those iconic verses).

“When the poet said: ‘Natural Objects always did and now do weaken, deaden, and obliterate Imagination in Me’, he was expressing that nature is much more than its materiality; how it is a route out of the earthly world, into imagination and the divine. While William Blake looked up at the same skies as artist Phil Tyler; while, beneath those feet, he felt the same earth that Ruby Taylor rubs between her fingers, he also sensed the infinite nature of man’s creativity. So, through this exhibition, I want also to explore our extraordinary imaginary, via the fantastical worlds conjured by The Baron Gilvan, plus my own foray into utopian aesthetics and the irrational. All of which, together with Jonathan Barnes’ fragmented innerscapes, and the transcendental that inspires Michaela Ridegway’s subconscious-tapping abstract drawings, make up ‘Our clouded hills’.” Rowena Easton

Our Clouded Hills was first shown at Gallery 207, Lewes.

The Baron Gilvan, Painting
Michaela Ridgway, Drawing
Rowena Easton, Painting
Jonathan Barnes, Painting
Ruby Taylor, Ceramics