Image: Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
Closing on 1 November 2026, ‘British Landscapes: A Sense of Place’ brings together more than 100 works examining how artists from the 18th to the 20th century represented Britain’s landscapes.
The exhibition spans Romanticism, Modernism and postwar abstraction. Painters, printmakers and sculptors have depicted places shaped by labour, conflict and imagination.
Spencer Gore’s ‘The Garden Path, Garth House’ is dated c. 1910. Ivon Hitchens’s ‘Curved Barn’ is dated 1922 and is an oil on canvas.
The exhibition traces a lineage from Thomas Gainsborough and the golden age of British watercolour to postwar works by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Barbara Hepworth, Paul Nash and Eric Ravilious.
A new illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition, with writing by Director Simon Martin and contributions from contemporary artist Haroun Hayward. It invites visitors to reflect on how Britain’s landscapes have been lived in, remembered and reimagined, and how they continue to shape a collective sense of belonging and resilience.
