An essay from the catalogue for Angelina May Davis: Coming Up For Air by Hannah Murgatroyd

An essay from the catalogue for Liorah Tchiprout: Frontier At The Country Of Night by John Phillips

Oxmarket Contemporary is delighted to present two exhibitions of landscape painting by Dylan Williams and Roger Isaac. Though radically different in their means of expression, the two painters tackle their subject with great intensity and affection.

Whilst the selection made for his show are all figurative, Cheeswright also makes abstract works. What is striking about the exhibition is the clear parallels between the two modes of work. Block colour, form and tone are intrinsic to the figurative works. On occasion abstract designs even feature as part of the figurative work. Similarly Cheeswright works both in a finely tuned draughtsmanship and a broader faux-naive manner. And yet when seen together as a group of works, it is clear the same artistic sensibilities are at play. Picasso said “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” There is no question that Cheeswright ‘can draw’, in the traditional sense, but his artistic vision takes these skills and sees how far he can simplify, distort or subvert his subject.

Driving up a narrow country lane to visit the home and studio of Agnes Treherne was like entering one of her paintings. On a clearing, crisp winter’s day, passing orchards leading up to a house with huge windows where the season was sure to enter the house as firmly as it did the surrounding garden, I knew for sure I had arrived at my destination.