Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: Where’s God Now? 18 July – 27 September 2015
The writer Evelyn Waugh once described Sylvia Gosse’s paintings as ‘horrid – all iron bedsteads and Sickert’. Certainly, Gosse’s shadowing of the elder artist is evident in her choice of subject matter, her painting style and her methods of working. She was, however, a talented artist in her own right. The critic of the Times commented: ‘It would be easy to label Miss Gosse pupil of Walter Sickert. But these works show that she is much more than that – one can see the influence of the origin but Mr Sickert has not swamped her; he has only communicated to her some of his own virtues.’
