FRAGILE PLACES

Recent work by Fred Ingrams

20 Nov – 7* Dec 2024

Landscapes of The Flow Country and the eroding coast of Norfolk; both fragile places

Private View: Thursday 21 Nov. 6-8pm. Email gallery to RSVP.

Artists Talk: Sat 30 Nov. 2pm. Just drop in.

Fragile Places is Fred Ingrams’ first exhibition in five years. He is showing recent paintings that capture the vulnerability of their locations, susceptible to change and in some cases complete disappearance, through both changing climate conditions and direct forms of human intervention. Beautifully chosen colour palettes and structured compositions balance the painterly elements with the contextual, making for a rich and varied viewing experience. 

‘After many years of painting the Fens I needed a change and decided to start painting The Flow Country. This unique landscape in Caithness and Sutherland in the far north couldn’t be more different. However the more time I’ve spent painting there I have got to know this landscape better and have realised that the Flow Country has many things in common with the Fens. Both are roughly the same size (1500 sq miles), both are made up of large areas of peat. Both are carbon captures and have unique wildlife. Both have been neglected and overlooked by artists and both are now under threat. The Flow Country however has just been made a Unesco World Heritage site so perhaps there is hope. Painting the Flow Country has forced me to paint landscape in a different way and this has been both exciting and challenging. This is my first exhibition in five years and the first time I have shown my Flow Country paintings.’   Fred Ingrams

Fred Ingrams was born in 1964. He studied at Camberwell and later expelled from St. Martins School of Art.
For ten years he painted above the Coach & Horses pub in Soho, whilst exhibiting in various central London galleries.
He has worked as a graphic designer and art director on many magazines including: Sunday Times, The Field, Tatler, Vogue and House & Garden.
In 1998 he moved to Norfolk where he divides his time painting in locally and the Flow Country.

Recently Fred has moved to the north east coast of Norfolk where he has started to paint this rapidly eroding coastal edge of Britain. This landscape is very obviously under threat and difficult decisions are having to be made on what to save and what to let go to the sea. Villages like Happisburgh and Hemsby are slowly being reclaimed by the sea.

Perhaps these paintings are of beautiful places that may one day no longer exist.

Download exhibition text by Lola Rushton HERE.

Read more & price list : Fred Ingrams

*Please note revised closing date, apologies for any inconvenience.