Laura Gascoigne

Lyrical and dreamlike: A World of Private Mystery – British Neo-Romantics, at the Fry Art Gallery, reviewed

This gem of a gallery has devoted half its enfilade to a pastoral mode of painting that sprang up on this island in the shadow of the second world war

‘Reaper in a Welsh Landscape’, 1945, by John Craxton. Credit: The Ingram Collection of Modern British Art
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  • A World of Private Mystery: British Neo-Romantics

    Fry Art Gallery, until 29 October

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