Chloë Ashby

Meditations on the sea by ten British artists

Lily Le Brun explores our shifting relationship with the shoreline through works by Vanessa Bell, Paul Nash, Bridget Riley and other modernists

‘Crest’, by Bridget Riley, 1964. [The British Council Collection]

  • Looking to Sea: Britain Through the Eyes of its Artists

    Lily Le Brun

    Sceptre, pp. 320, £25

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