




362 / 24 Evening Atlantic Edge. Óleo sobre lino, 99 × 90 cm (39 × 35¼ pulg.).
Richard Hoare presents Edge of Light | Journeys Across a Frontier at Messum’s (London). From 7 to 30 January 2026, Messum’s (David Messum Fine Art) brings together a selection of recent works by the British painter, conceived along the Atlantic edge. The gallery frames this territory as a threshold: a place where sea and horizon blur, and light seems to force its way through skies that are dense, unstable, and perpetually in flux.
In this series, Hoare works with a richly physical paint surface—built up in thick passages and shaped with brush and palette knife—tracking passing squalls, atmospheric shifts, and the brief flare of light that precedes dusk: deep water greens, slate blues, and metallic greys, cut through by bands of yellow illumination. The exhibition includes works such as Evening Atlantic Edge (oil on linen, 99 × 90 cm). An illustrated catalogue will be available.
The project also extends to the London Art Fair (Islington), where Messum’s presents the work at Stand 34, from 21 to 25 January.



We have previously discussed how a photograph — or an image — can rearticulate the public perception of reality. How it can encapsulate experience, much like a verb does, rendering it transferable, exposable, and legible in a specific way. Any story is a continuum, difficult to apprehend in its full extension and multidimensionality. In order to be understood and fixed as experience — and as argument — it must be reformulated through its most expressive qualities...

