Miniature Worlds at the Laing Art Gallery
October 23 2025
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Laing Art Gallery have just opened their latest temporary exhibition entitled Miniature Worlds: Little Landscapes from Thomas Bewick to Beatrix Potter.
According to the gallery's website:
Miniature Worlds: Little Landscapes from Thomas Bewick to Beatrix Potter explores the intricate beauty of small-scale landscapes across three centuries of British art. The exhibition has a particular focus on vignette format illustrations and the changing relationship between text, illustration, and publishing.
Highlights of the exhibition include seven highly detailed watercolours by JMW Turner, whose 250th birthday is being celebrated this year, a dramatic and diminutive drawing by John Martin, and nine intricate watercolours by Beatrix Potter. The exhibition includes over 130 objects, 90 of which are loans from other UK collections.
The show will run until 28th February 2026.
