One of Britain's leading artists, Chris Drury focuses on nature and landscape and in this exhibition brings the outside in.
Specifically, he is interested in the connection between man and nature.
The Lewes-based artist says: "Basically, the exhibition is to do with man as nature rather than apart from nature."
Drury has travelled and walked extensively in Ladakh, Colorado, Lapland, New Mexico and Sri Lanka and it is places such as these that have inspired his continuing interest in the environment in art.
The imagery here is rooted in the memory and history of places Drury has visited or lived in. Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1948, he lived there until he was six.
Ceylon II (2000) reflects this background, consisting of an enlarged map that originates from 1945 and was owned by Drury's Uncle.
He says: "Being from the tropics, it was marked by mildew and my uncle had drawn in biro all the trips he had made over the years.
"The map thus came with both a colonial and a personal history and I have added two layers - memories of early childhood and adult memories from a walk I made through Sri Lanka in 1987."
In Five Magic Mushrooms, the windows at the top of the gallery space are adorned with enlarged prints of mushroom spores.
Like the lines that make up fingerprints and maps, these prints also evoke organic matter. On one wall, a six metre-high fingerprint made with red earth faces you.
Drury ponders on the connotations of fingerprints: "The pattern of the whorls follows the same laws of flow that create the tissue in the heart, the marks on tree bark, the pattern of winds and weather flow and the pattern of ocean currents."
It is such parallels that unite the works in the show. Links between personal journeys and the greater sphere of nature are observed here.
"All these works are made intuitively. I'm edging towards something. After the event, I look at the connections and wonder about them - that's the nature of being an artist, to wonder about things."
For further information, call 01424 787900. Drury will be giving a talk about his work on September 19. Call 01424 787949 to book.
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