EXHIBITION
11 May - 16 Jun 2024
Jock McFadyen: Made in Hackney 2
Made in Hackney 2 featured landscape paintings created in the artist’s London Fields studio.
Most paintings are made indoors, as were cave paintings 40,000 years ago. This suits McFadyen, whose canvases can reach 2 × 3 metres and are hardly portable. The works here are smaller, often domestic in scale. Like Canaletto, who relied on memory and notes rather than gondoliers holding still, McFadyen paints Britain: urban and pastoral views, empty beaches, fleeting scenes from a speeding train, or Scottish wilderness with city lights on the horizon.
On this island the sea is never far away, nor is the city.
Venue:
The Grey Gallery
4 Helmsley Place, London Fields, E8 3SB
