Jason Hicklin | The River: Part Three: Riparius

28 March - 28 April 2024

The Thames, Higham Creek, 2024, etching on paper

Eames Fine Art Gallery

58 Bermondsey Street

London SE1 3UD

Jason Hicklin's exhibition, The River, Part One which covered The Thames' journey from Hammersmith to Waterloo took place at Eames Fine Art in October 2019.

The River, Part Two opened in March 2023 and covered the bustling and most built-up sections of the Thames: from Waterloo to the Greenwich Peninsula.

With this, the final exhibition from the series, we come to the dramatic conclusion of this historic walk: The River, Part Three. Jason's last stretch of the Thames starts in Woolwich, briefly looks back towards the City, and leads us through the large skies and vast expanses of the widening Thames as the views become more wild, unpopulated and unfamiliar and at last The Thames finds its inevitable destination as it merges with the North Sea.
Artworks
Jason Hicklin
The Thames, London from Gallions Reach (Diptych), 2024
Jason has wandered far beyond the dog-walkers, past still-active rifle ranges and long-abandoned forts, past small herds of cattle and a smattering of wild ponies wading through flank-deep puddles against the incongruous backdrop of towering electricity pylons, out into the marshes of the Hoo Peninsula, where Dickens’ Pip was accosted by an escaped convict in the opening pages of Great Expectations.

It is a flat land, dominated by the river’s expanse and the wide, unobstructed sky above it. We see this reflected across the body of work. Several of the prints feature Jason’s lowest horizon lines yet, showcasing his recently refined depiction of sunlight breaking through cloud. The water itself is often starker, just as it appears in real life when it gleams from bank to bank in the sun’s unimpeded light. It is altogether a different river, and with Riparius, we pass from the familiar to the unknown.
Artworks
Jason Hicklin
The Thames, Gravesend Reach, the Lower Hope (Diptych), 2024
'During the summer of 2023 I made a series of walks from Woolwich to The London Stone.

This eight metre granite obelisk sits thirty three and a half miles from London Bridge and marks the end of the City’s jurisdiction of the Thames... beyond the stone lies the North Sea. This show is the culmination of over thirty years of walking the Thames, from Hammersmith to Yantlet Creek.'

Jason Hicklin, 2024
Artworks
Jason Hicklin
The Thames, Yantlet Creek from Allhallows Marshes (Diptych), 2024
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  The Thames, Long Reach, Crayford Ness (Diptych), 2024
  
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  The Thames, West Point from Allhallows-on-Sea (Diptych), 2024
  
  £1,200.00
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Soft cover exhibition catalogue

Publisher: Eames Fine Art
Dimensions: 210 x 210 mm
Pages: 36

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Artworks
Jason Hicklin
The Thames, London Stone, Yantlet Creek (Hexaptych), 2024
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At a glance in the Gallery | Jason Hicklin - Riparius

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