Chasing Sublime Light

An exhibition of paintings and drawings by David Tress
12th September > 17th october, 2009

Chasing Sublime light is an exhibition of paintings and drawings by David Tress which explores his experience of travelling in the powerful mountainous landscapes of northern Britain.

The work in the exhibition is a direct and vigorous response to these landscapes as they appear now, but the roots of the project are in the journeys made over two hundred years ago by artists who pioneered the discovery of the rugged landscapes of the north. These artists included J M W Turner, Thomas Girtin and Paul Sandby, and they were travelling in search of landscapes that would revolutionise painting in the Romantic period: landscapes of the Sublime. Tress’s paintings are much more than simple records of the places he visited, they are unashamedly personal responses; painted and repainted they are explorations of his emotional and painterly responses to Chasing Sublime Light.