Beyond-scapes

Exuberant cityscapes, seascapes and landscapes from places as different and far apart as New York, Palma and Berlin.

They are the work of the Middlesbrough-born artist John Henshaw, who has moved to South Devon from Wiltshire to continue a painting career he has woven in and out of a working life in film making, animation, illustration and university lecturing. The threads combine in large and small paintings in oils, acrylics, inks and watercolour, based on a lifelong journal of sketchbook improvisations – all illuminating a continuous, more personal narrative.

Among John Henshaw’s private collectors is the poet and translator George Szirtes who has written about his ‘quite un-British terrain of rich, bold, flat colour, high pattern, and a trust in fiercely instinctive drawing in response to landscape, events and written text.

'Intensity of feeling is everywhere evident as if the power of it were on the point of breaking up the images to which the drawings or paintings refer.’

Opening View: Friday 18 August, 6 - 8 pm

For more information visit http://www.harbourhouse.org.uk/g17-johnhenshaw.shtml