Pick of the week

From September 11 to November 15, Waddington Custot, 11, Cork Street, W1, will celebrate Patrick Caulfield’s work in a solo show concentrating on his fascination with light and shade. Caulfield (1936–2005) developed a recognisable style of strongly coloured flat planes and hard-edged black outlines. His subjects were domestic forms (right), such as glasses, doors, window panes and lampshades, which may seem austere at first, but are handled with wit and elegance. In an interview, he said: ‘I’m not actually painting from observation of light, I’m making up an idea of how light could appear to be.’

The sections of the exhibition will be in spaces painted in colours taken from Caulfield’s palate, so they reflect aspects of his work and become extensions of it. As well as paintings and prints, there will be rarely exhibited drawings.

Tobit Roche spent a year working at Charleston, East Sussex, with Duncan Grant, who drummed into him the rule that discipline is essential in any artistic endeavour. Mr Roche has been painting since his Canadian childhood, where he was impressed by the Group of Seven, and then spent his teenage years in India, where he was even more impressed by the Himalayas (left), which gave him feelings of ‘freedom and adventure’. His education included spells at Camberwell and the American International School in New Delhi, where he absorbed Pollock, Rothko and American Abstract Expressionism. Now, he lives and works in London and Hastings, but frequently revisits India. His soft-focus paintings may be based on observed landscapes and objects, but they are imbued with spiritual qualities.

His show at Indar Pasricha, 44, Moreton Street, SW1, from September 18 to October 19, will also include a group of his new ‘Lingam’ paintings, which are a bridge between tantric and abstract art.