Crossing the Open Place Sam Hacking

23 Nov-28 Nov 2017

Overview

Sam Hacking’s paintings are on appearance - rich evocations of Englishness and familiarity. The scenes depicted feel commonplace, almost ‘pretty’, but there’s an air of quiet menace running through the work. There is much we can’t see, with odd perspectives, or inaccessibility into the painting, paths leading round the corner, fences running into nothing, or skies that are completely unreal, eating their way into the landscape.