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or the past 30 years Hertfordshire artists, James Willis and Carl Laubin have been painting their at the , in Hitchin, until January 29, brings the work of the two artists together, featuring Carl’s landscapes inspired by his lockdown walks in the surrounding countryside as well as imagined recreations of the architecture that Nicholas Hawksmoor designed for the Royal Hospital at Greenwich. James’s work includes atmospheric watercolours of local architecture from unusual perspective viewpoints and imaginative arrangements, known as capricci.

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