Sargent and the Sea

Time Out“Amounting to a perfect storm of tedium...” Three truly radical oceanside viewpoints, only anchored by a bobbing boat or two, were literally and figuratively thin on the ground but too few and far between to make this voyage worthwhile...

Guardian“It is hard to believe the painter ever stepped outside...” Sargent's sea is neither experimental nor abstract. It is not liquid and it has no volume or depth. It isn't numinous or mysterious or unfathomably beautiful. It isn't even expansive or wild...

The Independent“The elemental is simply not his bag...” His paintings of the sea, from first to last, are rather grey and leaden and slow-moving. He looks as if he is laboring over these waters, that they are forever trickling through his fingers. There is almost nothing which is light and fresh here...

The Telegraph“An eternal enigma...” Sargent and the Sea is one of those compact, but hugely rewarding shows that focus on a single theme and home in on a few years in a major painter’s long career...

this is london“The paintings cry out for daylight...” With so few marine paintings — far too few to justify the title of this insignificant and, at £10, absurdly expensive exhibition — there is much evidence of padding, particularly with notebook drawings, largely in pencil...

The Observer“The sense that everything is seen, but very little felt...” Sargent's sea is neither experimental nor abstract. It is not liquid and it has no volume or depth. It isn't numinous or mysterious or unfathomably beautiful. It isn't even expansive or wild...

The Scotsman“Not yet reviewed”

Art Review“Not yet reviewed”

The Times“Not yet reviewed”

Financial Times“Not yet reviewed”