What to see this week
Women of the Arts & Crafts Movement is at Blackwell, Bowness, Cumbria, until January 1, 2018 (015394 46139; www. blackwell.org.uk) Overlooking Lake Windermere, the outstanding Arts-and-crafts house designed by M. H. Baillie Scott is open to the public daily and also holds temporary exhibitions. This one focuses on talented makers and designers whose work was often passed over, largely because they were women. On loan from private and leading public collections are works not only by the notable figures of May Morris, Margaret Macdonald (right: Embroidered Silk Lampshade Panel) and Mary Watts, but also less well-known artists such as Ann Macbeth, Georgie Gaskin, Jessie Marion King and Pheobe Anna Traquair.
Land, Sea, Life; A British Art Collection
is at Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria, until February 17, 2018 (01539 722464; www. abbothall.org.uk) Selected from the Ingram Collection of Modern British art are works by the likes of Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Graham Sutherland, Laura Knight, John Piper and Henri Gaudier-brzeska. The South Country is at Maudlin Hill House, Sopers Lane, Steyning, West Sussex, on October 28 and 29 (01903 813795) Sale of paintings and collages by David Humphreys, who studied fine art with Victor Pasmore, Richard Hamilton and Lawrence Gowing and has lived on the South Downs for 50 years.
Olivia Kemp: Where the Land Lies is at Browse & Darby, 19, Cork Street, London W1, until November 3 (020–7734 7984; www. browseanddarby.co.uk) The young artist’s deft pen-and-ink drawings interweave real life and the imaginary in an exploration of our relationship with Nature and the wilderness.
A Green and Pleasant Land: British Landscape and the Imagination: 1970s to Now is at Towner Art Gallery, College Road, Eastbourne, East Sussex, until January 21, 2018 (01323 434670; www.townereastbourne.org.uk) More than 100 works, mainly photographs, by 50 artists who have helped shape our understanding of the land.
In Print: British Landscapes is at Watts Contemporary, Down Lane Compton, Surrey, until January 7, 2018 (01483 810235; www. wattsgallery.org.uk) Selling exhibition at Watts Gallery Artists’ Village of works by 13 contemporary printmakers.
Fiona Millais ‘A Path Through the Landscape’ is at Bohun Gallery, 15, Reading Road, Henley-on-thames, Oxfordshire, until October 28 (01491 576228; www. bohungallery.co.uk) Paintings from memories, drawings and notes created on her walks along the coast and through farmland, woods and heath by the great-granddaughter of Sir J. E. Millais.