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Painting displays

Explore a vibrant collection of paintings, from historic masterpieces to bold contemporary works, with our Seeing Green and Play of Light: A Display of Darkness and Illumination exhibitions. Each piece offers a unique glimpse into artistic expression.

Featured in the Seeing Green exhibition, Having A Look 1972, by Jim Russell

Seeing Green

This display of paintings invites viewers to consider the colour green. Associations differ around the globe and through history, but in modern Britain green tends to be linked to nature and environmental issues.

A painting featured in the Play of light exhibition, showing a view of Hampstead, London (1882), by John Atkinson Grimshaw.

Play of Light: A Display of Darkness and Illumination

This small display shows how using the play of light against darkness, to add drama and mood to art, was applied by British artists of the late Georgian and Victorian eras.