City’s art gallery showing first expo of British artist for 20 years.
Milton Keynes’s art gallery is showing the first major UK exhibition in more than 20 years dedicated to one of Britain’s most significant figurative artists.
The landmark MK Gallery exhibition, ‘An Arc from the Eye’, brings together more than 70 of artist Euan Uglow’s paintings and drawings from public and private collections, ranging from his iconic large scale nudes, to studio-based still lifes and landscape works from his summers in Europe.
The artist’s works are shown alongside others by masters who have influenced him, including Paul Cezanne and Alberto Giacometti and tutors William Coldstream, Victor Pasmore and Claude Rogers.
Uglow is best known for his meticulous paintings from life. Some of his paintings took months or even years to complete and his repeated, careful measurements and a wholly devised set-up resulted in a limited body of work, making this exhibition a rare occasion.
The display, which runs until May, showcases landscapes from Uglow’s weeks spent in France, Italy and Morocco alongside a large selection of his revered nudes and still life paintings.
Euan Uglow: An Arc from the Eye is at MK Gallery, Midsummer Boulevard, until Sunday 31st May.
