British Landscapes opened on 4 April 2015 in Jablonka Maruani Mercier Gallery in Knokke, with English artists George Shaw, Paul Morrison and Nina Murdoch, who have gained wide international recognition.
Shaw was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2011. He is known for his highly detailed naturalistic approach, making works in the old fashioned genre of representational landscape painting. He was The National Gallery's ninth Rootstein Hopkins Associate Artist.
Morrison is known for his bold, graphic, site-specific wall paintings and films. His paintings are scanned into a computer and then edited before being projected onto canvas. His work features dramatic changes in scale, with outsized plant life juxtaposed with a distant landscape.
Murdoch uses a technique fashioned in the early renaissance, painting on gesso using a mix of egg and pigment to make her own tempera paints. Her luminous urban landscapes transport us emotionally by capturing the light and essence of urban landscape like no other. She has won several awards including the Threadneedle Prize, the most prestigious award in England in 2008.