September 25 – October 30 2024
From JMW Turner and John Constable, to Chinese Masterpieces, Japanese Prints, Hokusai’s Mount Fuji, and Cézanne’s Mont Saint Victoire, artists have strived to capture landscape in all its beauty and nature for centuries. Landscape vistas can be recreated in private gardens and parkland estates, as with Chinese gardens of the 8thC, Capability Brown in the 18thC, and even rooftop gardens of the 20thC. There are many ways of bringing landscapes into one’s personal environment, from paintings and prints, to textiles, wallpapers, furnishings and potted plants, we can create an “outdoors” indoors, and feel that we have a connection to nature in some form. With the growing awareness of the need for mental health support in all areas of society, it is becoming a recognised fact that gardens, plants, landscapes and natural environments are a necessary aid to promote our mental and physical health. We will explore the meaning of Landscape in Art, and how we, the viewer, respond to certain combinations of natural elements, and how we use those elements in our daily lives to promote harmony and tranquility in our homes and environments.