Gale's landscape paintings are not about location or scenery, but are more concerned with small relatively insignificant events that happen within the landscape; a bird is startled in a wood, a walker is distracted by a flurry of avian activity in the distance, a meeting on a mountain track or a figure wanders into a silent circus compound.Brief incidents that are suspended in time, or as Seamus Heaney observed,"They hold in a single, steady, local focus the reality and anxiety of the times."
Martin Gale : Happenstance
Past exhibition