Other Landscapes brings together paintings, drawings and prints by Corinna Spencer and Dougal Kirkland, two artists whose work explores the uncanny presence of landscape.
Corinna Spencer’s paintings and drawings evoke strange terrains where bodies seem to emerge from, dissolve into, or become entangled with the land itself. Organic forms, sinkholes and cavernous spaces suggest environments where the boundaries between body and landscape blur.
Dougal Kirskland’s works focuses on expanses of water, bog and remote terrain that conceal as much as they reveal. His contemplative images suggest landscapes charged with hidden histories, unseen forces and ancestral connections.
Together, the exhibition proposes landscape not as backdrop, but as an active, mysterious presence — darkly beautiful, ever present and quietly transformative.
Private View: Thursday 2 April, 6–8pm
All very welcome, please join us to meet the artists and celebrate the opening of this intriging exhibition.
About Corinna Spencer
Corinna Spencer is a painter whose work explores intersections between landscape, the body and the subconscious. She studied Fine Art Painting at Coventry University (MA, 2006–2008) after completing a BA in Fine Art Painting (1993–1996).
Her paintings occupy a liminal space between figuration and abstraction, with dreamlike terrains forming organic shapes and ambiguous bodies. She has had solo exhibitions at Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery, That Art Gallery in Bristol, and Exeter Phoenix, and has participated in group shows across the UK and internationally, including Turner Contemporary, Newlyn Art Gallery, Mostyn, and the Barbican Arts Trust.
Spencer has received several awards, including the South West Regional Prize at the ING Discerning Eye (2019) and the Solo Show Award at the Nottingham Castle Open (2014). Her work is held in private collections in the UK and internationally, and her artist books are in the Victoria and Albert Museum collection.
About Dougal Kirkland
Dougal Kirkland is a British artist whose drawings and paintings investigate landscape as a site of quiet mystery and psychological depth.
He studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, graduating in 2017, and later completed the postgraduate scholarship programme at the Royal Drawing School in 2022, where he was awarded the ACS Drawing Prize.
Kirkland’s work often centres on water, horizon lines and remote environments that appear suspended between observation and imagination. His landscapes are charged, suggesting places where time slows and hidden narratives gather beneath the surface.
His drawings are held in the Royal Collection as well as in private collections internationally.