Collectively, the India paitings provide a superb account of the way Andrew Gifford approaches landscape painting and hw he succeeds in keeping an enduring tradition relevant, fresh and modern. Painting in a digitally-connected world, the exhibiton catalogue tries to bring together Gifford's own accounts and images of the people he met and who helped him, but no doubt there are hundreds more strands of photos and stories archived on phone memories across the sub-continent. Those accounts are out there, but in the meantime we have crammed into the catalogue as much as we can to get the flavour of the journey, with only a passing nod to a timeframe (April, May and December).
An extract from the introduction of the illustrative catalogue from Andrew Gifford's India exhibition in 2018
