Contemporary Arts Trust

From Italy and for the first time in the UK, Paola’s paper clay mastery creates fresh and featherlight forms reflecting her rural working environment in Northern Italy.

The gallery’s first ever exhibition of old master European portrait drawings explores the creative encounter that takes place between artists and sitters.

Drawing from Pallant House Gallery’s permanent collection, this exhibition explores the work of a group of artists during and after the Second World War, including Paul Nash and John Piper.

At Home in Antiquity explores Lawrence Alma-Tadema’s fascination with the representation of domestic life in antiquity and how this interest related to his own domestic circumstances expressed through the two remarkable studio-houses that he created in St John’s Wood together with his wife Laura and daughters

Bringing together more than 80 paintings by an almost forgotten generation of artists, this exhibition explores the realist tradition in British art between the two World Wars. It focuses on scrupulously detailed realist painting, part of a world-wide trend at the time.

Ever since his first visit to India in 1964 Howard Hodgkin was enraptured and he continued to make trips almost annually for the next 50 years in order to explore and paint. Hodgkin was considered one of Britain’s greatest living painters (he passed away in March 2017), using intense, pigmented colour and confident brushwork to create works loaded with powerful and evocative emotion.

Known for photographing tableaux of small town America, Crewdson’s work is both dramatic and cinematic. While his images often capture what appear as disturbing or surreal real-life events, they are in fact elaborately staged and lit using motion picture film equipment and techniques.

Wyndham Lewis: Life, Art, War at Imperial War Museum North, Manchester

The first UK show in nearly 100 years devoted to watercolours by the Anglo-American artist, John Singer Sargent (1856-1925).

Alphonse Mucha: In Quest of Beauty is a major touring exhibition from the Mucha Foundation which explores the work of the artist around the theme of beauty – the core principle underlying his artistic philosophy.