Looking around us

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These three painters use their familiar surroundings as the starting point for their work. The subjects are roads and vehicles: journeys in familiar surroundings, but sometimes further afield; public spaces and the people who inhabit them. This stems from a long tradition in European art from the Dutch domestic interiors of the seventeenth century to the Impressionists who chronicled life in the streets of Paris. Nearer to our own time those who looked no further than their kitchen sink made this humble object the name of an entire genre