The latest exhibition at Words & Pictures Gallery is by the spectacularly good Sam Boughton. With a background in illustration this series of painted works are deeply seated within the tradition of landscape painting and retain something of the illustrated signs a references familiar within Boughtons visual vocabulary. The exhibition is open now and until May 22nd - i urge you to come and visit in person.

Sam Boughton recent paintings at Words & PicturesGallery, 8th - 22nd May. A very specific, focused and refined palette and markmaking vocablary that explore a semi-abstract Devon landscape. Within the visual language are a series of marks and gestures that identify as boat, tree, rock, wave etc but they are the barest of suggestions - enough. The best type of poetry that doesn't force itself upon you with blunt instruments borrowed from representational painting and illustrat