Silence and Twilight: John Caple
The exhibition begins on midsummer’s eve and the magical descent into a summer’s night. It was the time when divinations revealed what the darker months of winter might bring: visions seen through doorways and mirrors, with candles and fires to strengthen the sun on its journey. It is a bittersweet moment: both the height of summer and the start of summer’s ending. Taking his inspiration from the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Shelley’s epic poem, ‘Alastor’, John Caple has set his paintings in the landscapes and formal gardens of a midsummer garden, a place from which he explores both the melancholy and the ever-beckoning spirit of the wild and our precarious place in nature.
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John Caple, 1. The Poets's Journey, 2019
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John Caple, 14. The Hillside Must Not Know It, 2018
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John Caple, 23. Which Walk no more the Village Street, 2018
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John Caple, A Little Forest, 2018
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John Caple, 26. Evening, 2018
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John Caple, 28. Evening Quiet, 2018
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John Caple, 30. Midsummer Dusk Wish, 2018
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John Caple, 49. Where Silence Undisturbed, 2017
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John Caple, Here is Thy Fitting Temple I, 2017