Jerwood Collection Loans to A Gap in the Clouds at The Heong Gallery

Jerwood Collection is pleased to announce the loan of five significant works to the exhibition A Gap in the Clouds, at The Heong Gallery opening on 31 October 2025.

Curated by Elisa Schaar (Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford) and Adina Drinceanu (Eco Ricerca Arte), the exhibition explores the profound relationship between inner and outer landscapes, drawing vital connections between mental health, lived experience, and the environments we inhabit.

Through a wide range of media—from figurative to abstract, physical to digital—the exhibition considers how artists have long used landscapes as metaphors for emotional and psychological states. Landscapes, whether real or imagined, urban or natural, become powerful tools for artists to express isolation, resilience, anxiety, or hope.

 

On loan from Jerwood Collection:

• Paul Nash (1889-1946), Spring Landscape, 1914 and The Corner, 1919 – two poignant works that capture the psychological fallout of war, at once serene and haunting.

• David Jones (1895-1974), July Change, 1929 – a poetic meditation on emotional and environmental transformation.

• Peter Lanyon (1918-1964), Sharp Grass, 1964 – a vivid abstraction exploring the tension between softness and sharpness in both land and psyche.

• Rachel Howard (b.1969), You Can Save Me, 2015 – a contemporary reflection on the vastness and vulnerability of the self in maritime space.

 

These works form part of a broader exhibition that explores how artists from diverse cultures and backgrounds reckon with the changing terrain of emotional life—often shaped as much by external environments as internal states.

For more information please visit A Gap in the Clouds | Downing College Cambridge

September 23, 2025