‘“Radiant Form”: Ruskin and Shells’
Blue Gallery, Brantwood, 30 July-29 September 2024

From childhood, Ruskin was a keen collector of shells, intrigued by their patterns, shapes and colours. ‘But to paint shells in quite true perspective – and with their exact pearly lustre or grain, is beyond all skill but the highest’ he wrote. This fifth exhibition in the series ‘John Ruskin in the Age of Science’ explores the technical and philosophical challenges presented by Ruskin's shell studies from The Ruskin Whitehouse Collection, Lancaster University, the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, alongside his shell collection at Brantwood, where his original shell cabinets remain in the drawing room.

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