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Francis Hamel - Landscapes 2004-2006

Francis Hamel's next exhibition presents several distinct projects undertaken over the last two years. The most ambitious, a delicate series showing a stretch of the River Cherwell painted at different seasons, was to inspire a set of fantasies based on the Great Flood. Another group, based on woodlands, develop the single tree studies for which Hamel has become widely known and introduce paintings of exquisite birch forests and magnificent wellingtonia avenues. Finally, his travels to Italy and Anglesea over the last two years have yielded delicate studies and imposing landscapes with his characteristic concerns for colour harmonies and tone. Whilst Francis Hamel's pastoral vision of the landscape continues in the footsteps of artists like Samuel Palmer and Paul Nash, he is an artist who succeeds in reinvigorating one of the cornerstones of English painting.