Pallant House Gallery

Pallant House Gallery A Modern British and international art gallery set in a Queen Anne townhouse and modern extension.
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✨ SEASON LAUNCH: British Landscapes: A Sense of Place is now open 🌿Spanning more than two centuries of art, British Land...
30/05/2026

✨ SEASON LAUNCH: British Landscapes: A Sense of Place is now open 🌿

Spanning more than two centuries of art, British Landscapes: A Sense of Place brings together works by over 60 artists exploring how the landscapes of the British Isles have been seen, shaped and remembered. From the golden age of British watercolour to postwar abstraction, the exhibition traces a rich journey through landscape as a place of memory, identity and emotion.

Featuring works by Thomas Gainsborough, Paul Nash, Eric Ravilious, Barbara Hepworth, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Prunella Clough and many more, the exhibition moves from quiet rural lanes and chalk hills to industrial terrains and abstract coastlines, revealing the many ways artists have responded to the world around them.

“How our best artists captured the beauty of Britain” – The Telegraph

📍On view now until 1 November 2026

https://pallant.org.uk/whats-on/british-landscapes-a-sense-of-place/

🖼️: Mark Gertler (1891–1939), Near Swanage, 1916, Oil on board, Kearley Bequest, through Art Fund (1989)

William Crozier's The Edge of the Landscape, Essex (1959) has now joined the Gallery's collection, presented by the Esta...
29/05/2026

William Crozier's The Edge of the Landscape, Essex (1959) has now joined the Gallery's collection, presented by the Estate of William Crozier.

Painted following a period spent working in Pebmarsh, Essex, the work is based on the River Colne and forms part of a series of dark, desolate landscapes inspired by the emptiness of the Essex ‘wilderness’. Created during the Cold War era, these emotionally charged paintings reflect a wider atmosphere of unease while exploring ideas of authenticity, meaning and humanity’s relationship to place.

In The Edge of the Landscape, Essex, Crozier transforms landscape into something deeply psychological – a space shaped as much by feeling as by observation.

We are happy to be showing this work in British Landscapes: A Sense of Place, opening tomorrow.

🖼️: William Crozier (1930–2011), The Edge of the Landscape, Essex, 1959, Oil on board, Presented by the Estate of William Crozier (2026), © Estate of William Crozier

23/05/2026

Angela is one of the volunteers behind our Volunteers’ Art Exhibition, and one of the artists featured within it.

Bringing together a wide range of personal, thoughtful and unexpected works, the exhibition celebrates the creativity of our volunteer community. With no set brief or theme, each piece reflects something individual and meaningful.

🗓 4 April – 7 June 2026
🎨 All proceeds support volunteer initiatives

The White Vase (1930) by Christopher Wood has travelled to Kettle's Yard for their exhibition 'Handpicked: Painting Flow...
21/05/2026

The White Vase (1930) by Christopher Wood has travelled to Kettle's Yard for their exhibition 'Handpicked: Painting Flowers from 1900 to Today' (on until 6 September 2026), continuing its story beyond Pallant House Gallery as part of a shared conversation between collections.

Painted in the final year of Wood’s life, this work captures the clarity and confidence of his mature style. Bold contours and flattened planes of colour reveal the lasting influence of Van Gogh and Japanese ukiyo-e prints, while the simple still life subject reflects Wood’s enduring interest in the relationship between objects and space.

Recently conserved, the painting has undergone careful surface cleaning and varnish treatment, restoring the vibrancy of its colour and the immediacy of Wood’s touch, details that will now be seen afresh in a new setting.

Loans like this offer a chance to encounter familiar works differently, placing them in new contexts and dialogues. We’re delighted to collaborate with Kettle’s Yard in sharing this remarkable painting with wider audiences.

🖼️: Christopher Wood (1901–1930), The White Vase, 1930, Oil on canvas on board, Bequeathed by Ian Mylles with Art Fund support (2021)

📸: Install shots by Jo Underhill

20/05/2026

Step inside Haroun Hayward’s studio as he prepares for Path through Trees (30 May – 1 November 2026), his first solo institutional exhibition.

Inspired by the Sussex landscape, Hayward’s new paintings bring together rhythm, texture and layered influences, from postwar British painting and textile traditions to rave culture and everyday surroundings.

Opening at Pallant House Gallery alongside British Landscapes: A Sense of Place, the exhibition offers a contemporary response to ideas of landscape, memory and place.

🏛️ Happy International Museums Day.Museums are places where stories, objects and people come together to learn and conne...
18/05/2026

🏛️ Happy International Museums Day.

Museums are places where stories, objects and people come together to learn and connect, helping to build understanding across different experiences.

One of the pleasures of spending time in a gallery is noticing how differently people respond to the same work of art. One person might be drawn to its colour and light, another to its subject or history, another to something entirely personal. These readings don’t always align, and often they don’t need to.

This year’s theme, Museums Uniting a Divided World, speaks to that complexity. Museums do not remove difference, but hold it carefully, creating conditions where varied perspectives can sit alongside one another with openness and respect.

In doing so, they become places of connection – allowing multiple perspectives to be seen and heard.

16/05/2026

🖼️ Two weeks to go...

British Landscapes: A Sense of Place explores how artists from the 18th to the 20th century have responded to the landscapes of the British Isles.

Bringing together works by more than 60 artists, the exhibition reveals landscape not simply as scenery, but as a powerful expression of memory, identity and emotion.

From quiet lanes and chalk hills to industrial sites and abstract coastlines, these works reflect places shaped by labour, conflict and imagination, inviting us to consider how landscape continues to inform a shared sense of belonging.

Opening 30 May at Pallant House Gallery.

What does it mean to capture a sense of place?Published to accompany British Landscapes: A Sense of Place (30 May – 1 No...
15/05/2026

What does it mean to capture a sense of place?

Published to accompany British Landscapes: A Sense of Place (30 May – 1 November 2026), this new catalogue traces how artists across the 19th and 20th century responded to the shifting character of the British landscape.

From the influence of Post-Impressionism on early modern painters, to the quiet intensity of interwar rural scenes, and the fractured, abstracted visions that followed, the book explores how landscape became a way of processing identity, memory and upheaval.

Featuring artists including Paul Nash, Eric Ravilious, John Piper and Keith Vaughan, and written by , it offers a deeper way into the exhibition and is illustrated throughout.

Now available to pre-order via

£30 | Published by

🎨 A collection shaped by curiosity, instinct and a lifelong engagement with art…We’re delighted to share a significant n...
14/05/2026

🎨 A collection shaped by curiosity, instinct and a lifelong engagement with art…

We’re delighted to share a significant new addition to Pallant House Gallery’s ‘collection of collections’: a major bequest from the estate of Dennis Andrews, made possible with support from , alongside works generously gifted during his lifetime.

Created together with his partner Christopher (Kit) Whelen, this collection reflects a deeply personal way of living with art, guided by memory, mood and experience. From early illustrated books to works by Edward Bawden, Ivon Hitchens, Eric Ravilious, Keith Vaughan and David Hockney, the collection they left to the Gallery has grown – through a combination of lifetime gifts and a final bequest – into a remarkable group of over 70 artworks and rare books.

Dennis and Kit never set out to build a collection. Instead, they ‘side-stepped into art’ by acquiring works that spoke to them. As Dennis once reflected: 'Always look long and hard before you buy, unless of course impulse defeats you as it sometimes should…'

Their extraordinary collection will now be shared with the public, continuing a legacy of generosity, and a belief in art as something to be lived with, and passed on.

A selection of the works is featured in our current Print Room exhibition, open until the 9 August 2026.

🖼️: Edward Bawden (1903–1989), Ives Farm, Essex, 1956, Linocut in colours on paper, Dennis Andrews and Christopher Whelen Collection, bequeathed with Art Fund support, (2025), © The Estate of Edward Bawden

🖼️: Elizabeth Blackadder (1931–2021), Figure Beside a Pool, 1965, Gouache and pastel on card, Dennis Andrews and Christopher Whelen Collection, bequeathed with Art Fund support, (2025), © Bridgeman Art Library

🖼️: Eric Ravilious (1903–1942), Submarine Dream from the Submarine Series, 1940-41, Lithograph on paper, The Dennis Andrews and Christopher Whelen Gift (2008)

🖼️: John Minton (1917–1957), Figures at Dock, c.1948, Ink and pencil on paper, Dennis Andrews and Christopher Whelen Collection, bequeathed with Art Fund support, (2025)

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