Join us for our PV on Saturday 28th October 6-8pm

Dark Was The Night, the title of this exhibition, is taken from a Blues song written by Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night (Cold Was The Ground). These words imply certainty, facts that can’t be denied. Night brings darkness and yet the night remains full of colour despite - or perhaps because of - the dark, and we are forced to examine the night closely for differences in the blue pigments that make up this complex landscape form.

The majority of these paintings were made in West Sussex. Their subjects are the view from the artist’s garden (increasingly encroached on by new houses); and of Northern Ireland, where he visited often before moving permanently this year.