A Fitzroy House Event

Julian Bell: Strange South Downs

Julian Bell talks about Harold Mockford, the great senior artist of this region of England.

The oil paintings of Mockford, who was born in Eastbourne in 1932, deliver a unique poetic vision of downland landscape that has long held the admiration of his fellow Sussex artists. Bell will try to put this work in context, relating it to other art of the locality and to the history Mockford has lived through.

Julian Bell is a painter and art writer who has long been based in Lewes. His books include ‘What is Painting?’ and ‘Vincent van Gogh’, and he often contributes to the London Review of Books and New York Review of Books.

Plain, an exhibition of new paintings by Bell, will open at the Star Gallery, Lewes on 1 October – find out more

Venue: Fitzroy House, Lewes

Details and tickets: from Fitzroy House website

Julian Bell in his studio. Image at Fitzroy House website