This lecture examines the work of post 1914 – 18 war painters. The aftermath saw artists experiment with abstraction, including the Neo-Romantics such as John Piper and Graham Sutherland. They  made work that was melancholic and emotive to reflect a post-war reality. These years were a period of big change of the ‘art world’ as a consequence artists became commentators and celebrators.

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Painters were following independent lines, each doing their own thing, but somehow making fuller sense together than alone. That’s the joy of the group have been looking at: no single “correct” landscape, just different pressures applied to the same stubborn subject — land, time, memory, effort, weather, use. Each painter tunes a different string.