Solo Exhibition at East Riddlesden Hall, a National Trust Property

I’m pleased to announce that I’ve been selected to hold my first solo exhibition at East Riddlesden Hall, a National Trust property near Keighley in Yorkshire.

Thresholds: Light, Memory and Place will run from 24 October 2026 until March 2027. The exhibition will bring together a new body of paintings developed in response to East Riddlesden Hall and its surrounding landscape.

East Riddlesden Hall is a place I’ve returned to over time. An architecturally significant historic house, it sits closely within its landscape yet feels set slightly apart. Both the house and its grounds have survived within an increasingly dense urban setting. Together, they form a rare fragment of preserved landscape, shaped by time, use and memory. That contrast is part of what draws me to it. The hall and its setting feel distinct from the world around them, making this one of the threshold places that most interest me.

My paintings begin with time spent in a place. Walking, returning, observing how it shifts with light, weather and season. Here, the work will focus on the quieter thresholds within the site, where architecture and landscape meet, and where interior and exterior begin to overlap.

Rather than documenting the hall directly, the paintings will explore its stillness, atmosphere and emotional character. The exhibition will consider how painting can draw out qualities of a place that are not immediately visible, and how light, history, memory and landscape shape the experience of East Riddlesden Hall.

The next few months will be given over to this work, and I’ll share aspects of the process as it develops.