Kerlin Gallery presents a solo exhibition by Paul Winstanley, comprising a new series of paintings titled Arcadia, a continuation of his recent series The Falls, plus the last of his critically acclaimed Veil series, a signature body of work initiated in 1999.

Titled Arcadia, suggesting ‘something ancient being revisited’, this new body of work looks towards early 19th-century paintings of idyllic mountainous landscapes – pictures that have largely lost their significance through the ‘gauze of history’. Seizing upon the more abstract elements of these works, Winstanley revisits the genre from a contemporary standpoint – first ‘degrading’ inkjet prints of the source images, stripping back detail using a process of wax resist, before recreating them as paintings. Through this process of reinvention, the landscapes become spatial encounters – removed from the specificity of place, they instead tune our attention towards atmosphere, presence, and spiritual charge, all while keeping the ‘shadow’ of the original image.