Soaring Flight: Peter Lanyon’s Gliding Paintings - In Context

In his search for a new, immersive way of experiencing land, sea and air, the Cornish landscape painter Peter Lanyon took up gliding in the late 1950s. He sought to capture his multi-sensory perceptions in a number of extraordinary, near-abstract paintings, which are brought together for the first time in The Courtauld Gallery's Soaring Flight: Peter Lanyon's Gliding Paintings.

Join in exploring Lanyon's modernity as well as his roots in an older British tradition of landscape painting.