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A survey of sculpture and painting by artists championed at Roche Court.

Exhibited in the Gallery and Orangery, ‘Essence’ ultimately represents relationships; between landscape and art; artist and artwork, and the longstanding connection between artist and gallery.

Dictated by form, space and light, the exhibition echoes the movement of the landscape surrounding the gallery, where undulating hills are mirrored in the sweeping plains of Barbara Hepworth’s Aegean. Equally, the works reflect one another; the marked, tactile surface of Edmund de Waal’s their bright traces seems a companion to …