Allan Grainger | Artist

Sussex based landscape artist whose work considers notions of place, culture and memory.

[Allan Grainger | Artist @allangrainger]

Downland Gloaming: ‘The gloaming for me is that time, that liminal space, when we leave the clarity of the day and enter the light of the imagination. These photographs are equivalents, moments experienced and subtle recordings in a fading landscape. #photography #artphotography

[Allan Grainger | Artist @allangrainger]

Downland Gloaming:
‘The gloaming for me is that time, that liminal space, when we leave the clarity of the day and enter the light of the imagination. These photographs are equivalents, moments experienced and subtle recordings in a fading landscape. #landscapephotography

[Allan Grainger | Artist @allangrainger]

borne from a photographic reality that is true to itself, not an adjunct to other media.

#photo #photograghy #landscapephotography #landscape #art

[Allan Grainger | Artist @allangrainger]

Chalk Paths, Ditchling, a picture 3x3 feet, is from a new project that will be an addition to my Downland Portfolio currently made up of works from Downland Gloaming and Downland Impressions.
The visual poetry of Eric Ravilious’s ‘Chalk Paths’ has been a source of inspiration

[Allan Grainger | Artist @allangrainger]

I have changed it through multiple perspectives, flattened parts of the picture to give a textural depiction and fashioned a scene that you will never find on the Downs. Although they may seem to have a familiarity, they are landscapes of the imagination

[Ravilious @Ravilious1942]

Corn Stooks and Farmsteads, Eric Ravilious, 1935. It depicts Hill Farm, Capel-y-ffin, #Wales. The original artwork was sold at @ChristiesInc in 2018 and is now in a private collection.

[Allan Grainger | Artist @allangrainger]

reality that is true to itself, not an adjunct to other media. #photography #landscapephotography #image #art

[Allan Grainger | Artist @allangrainger]

Chalk Paths, Ditchling, a picture 3x3 feet, is from a new project that will be an addition to my Downland Portfolio currently made up of works from Downland Gloaming and Downland Impressions.

The visual poetry of Eric Ravilious’s ‘Chalk Paths’ has been a source of inspiration

[Allan Grainger | Artist @allangrainger]

changed it through multiple perspectives, flattened parts of the picture to give a textural depiction and fashioned a scene that you will never find on the Downs. Although they may seem to have a familiarity, they are landscapes of the imagination borne from a photographic

[Allan Grainger | Artist @allangrainger]

they are landscapes of the imagination borne from a photographic reality that is true to itself, not an adjunct to other media.

[Allan Grainger | Artist @allangrainger]

Chalk Paths, Ditchling, a picture 3x3 feet, is from a new project that will be an addition to my Downland Portfolio currently made up of works from Downland Gloaming and Downland Impressions. The visual poetry of Eric Ravilious’s ‘Chalk Paths’ has been a source of inspiration...

[Allan Grainger | Artist @allangrainger]

just as time’s imprint on the landscape changes the landscape I have changed it through multiple perspectives, flattened parts of the picture to give a textural depiction and fashioned a scene that you will never find on the Downs. Although they may seem to have a familiarity,...

[Allan Grainger | Artist @allangrainger]

A new image for my project, The Ouse, part of my Downland Portfolio. The scene shows Mount Caburn, a train from Lewes to Newhaven, and a somewhat ghostly swan. Photographed near where Ravilious stayed at Furlongs as a guest of the artist Peggy Angus. #photo #nightphotography

[Allan Grainger | Artist @allangrainger]

A new image for my project, The Ouse, part of my Downland Portfolio. The scene shows Mount Caburn, a train from Lewes to Newhaven, and a somewhat ghostly swan. Photographed near where Ravilious stayed at Furlongs as a guest of the artist Peggy Angus. #photo #nightphotography