CASEY ALLUM: Coming Home – the Langdale Collection, September 9th to October 1st 2023

We were thrilled to hold this exhibition by Casey Allum. Casey is a self-taught portrait artist and illustrator with a phenomenal eye for animals in particular. Although Casey now lives in Scotland, she was born and grew up in Langdale and this new collection will reflect and be inspired by her childhood there. The exhibition introduced the world to her greyscale oil paintings, created solely for this exhibition to mark not only Casey’s admiration for the Cumbrian wildlife but also the simple draw one feels for ‘coming home’.

Carrying over the palette from her usual and well-known graphite pieces, Casey’s oils depicted these beautiful creatures in a completely new light, telling the story of a deep routed love of animals; a childhood of saving mice from farm cats, running from accidentally disturbed badgers, chatting with tamed Herdwicks with likings for penny-sweets (especially the fizzy ones), hacking out on the farms shires and endless encounters with all manner of local creatures