Ivon Hitchens: The Painter in the Woods

In 1940, Ivon Hitchens' house in Hampstead suffered bomb damage. Luckily, the artist had recently installed a gypsy caravan in some Sussex woodland, giving his young family and himself somewhere to escape to. The rest, as they say, is history. Over time, they added buildings to the land around the caravan and stayed living there. This exhibition at London's Garden Museum features a selection of the paintings Hitchens created at his new woodland home. Semi-abstract, the paintings are intended to be 'listened to' with the viewer's eyes. And why not? They look good enough to eat, if not to hear.