Green and pleasant views, digital dreams and a White Stripe sculpts

Green and pleasant views, digital dreams and a White Stripe sculpts This week’s art highlights include a survey of British landscape painting from Gainsborough to Hepworth at Pallant House Gallery and Wendy McMurdo’s portraits exploring digital fantasy at Portrait, Edinburgh. Other notable exhibitions feature Lisa Ivory’s gothic paintings, Jack White’s debut at Newport Street Gallery, and Delaine Le Bas’s mystical artworks. The article also touches on Steven Shearer’s candid insights into his work, recent art world news, and a detailed look at Palma Vecchio’s “Portrait of a Poet”.

• Exhibitions include ‘British Landscapes: A Sense of Place’ (Gainsborough to Hepworth), Lisa Ivory’s gothic paintings, Jack White’s debut, Delaine Le Bas’s mystical artworks, and Wendy McMurdo’s digital fantasy portraits.
• Steven Shearer discusses his paintings, which combine art history with adolescent ennui.
• Recent art news includes the death of British abstract painter Tess Jaray, a new artwork from the Sycamore Gap tree, Phyllida Barlow’s disruption of a stately home, and artists funding a renewables plant.
• A fraudster selling fake ancient statues was caught, and photographer Lee Friedlander’s ability to transform junk into art is noted.
• The ‘Masterpiece of the week’ is Palma Vecchio’s ‘Portrait of a Poet’ (c. 1516), likely symbolizing the sitter’s poetic aspirations through laurel imagery.
• The National Gallery in London is exhibiting ‘Portrait of a Poet’.