The Cricket Game lll, 2004 oil on canvas 40 x 80 inches / 101.6 x 203.2 cm   David Inshaw Paintings from 1965 to 2005 10 July – 28 August 2005 The exhibition presented a survey of paintings by British artist David Inshaw. Trained at the Royal Academy Schools in the mid 1960s, the artist quickly established a significant critical reputation as a painter of large, complex compositions of figures in landscapes densely detailed and rich in an atmosphere of romantic melancholy. Among the works in the exhibition were The Cricket Game III, 2004 - a painting of elegiac beauty with the cricket players fading into the evening light of the Dorset landscape. The great stimulus to David Inshaw's painting has always been people and places; the people for whom he feels strong affection and the places which he most closely associates them with. His paintings are spiritual celebrations of the British landscape that uphold the great tradition of visionary painting exemplified by JMW Turner, Samuel Palmer, Maddox Brown and Paul Nash.