The latest addition is a show of war artist Stanley Spencer's murals in Somerset House ... rise from the ground at the end of the war, as heaven emerges from hell. Crucifixes used to mark graves ...

Stanley Spencer: Heaven in a Hell of War runs from 7 November to 26 January. Stanley Spencer Heaven in a Hell of War Somerset House Doctor describes 'total carnage' as 27 reported killed by ...

was Stanley Spencer’s response ... Set against the battlefield, Spencer recalled these menial tasks as miraculous: “Heaven in a hell of war”. The canvases are crowded but brilliantly ...

With canvases focusing on the tranquillity of rural life, along with highly sexualised nudes, and Bible scenes imagined in a sleepy English village, the works of Stanley Spencer mark him out as ...

Curator Dr Amy Lim succinctly sums up the artistic world of Stanley Spencer as “God, sex and Cookham”. He considered the village in which he grew up to be a “Holy Suburb of Heaven” and often used his ...

With its disorientating double perspective that makes it difficult to take in this verdant image all at once, Stanley ... vision of heaven.” There are no heroic vistas in Spencer’s paintings.

I knew this from the work of Sir Stanley Spencer, the 20th-century British ... in his view, “a village in Heaven”. Without his work, it’s a place that’s green and pleasant without ...

But Roger Wagner’s Everywhere is Heaven show complements and stands out brightly and powerfully alongside works by Spencer at the eponymous gallery. The combination enhances them both with ...

whose life and residents were immortalised in Stanley Spencer's biblical paintings. Spencer, who was born and lived here, described Cookham as 'a village in Heaven'. This walk is very popular at ...

including this self-portrait, and paintings by his friend and contemporary, Henry Lamb. Stanley Spencer: Heaven in a Hell of War runs from 7 November to 26 January.

Three wall murals including the Resurrection, here in a major back-lit reproduction, could not be moved for this unprecedented visit to London, an exhibition Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) had ...