Joe Grieve: The Other Side.

Opening in The Coach House, this exhibition situates Grieve’s practice within a broader dialogue of art, landscape, and human presence.

The Other Side brings together a body of oil paintings, several anchored in charcoal underdrawings that introduce a figurative compositional framework. At once lyrical and urgent, these works trace Grieve’s enduring relationship with the landscapes of the British Isles, reflecting on both their beauty and their vulnerability. Through layered surfaces and fractured perspectives, he renders the slow corruption and fragmentation of terrain across a lifetime of observation.

Grieve’s canvases reveal parallel worlds: the familiar surface of mountains, coasts, and skies, and an unseen substratum, a psychedelic network of energy and form buried beneath the earth. Grieve’s paintings oscillate—bridging peace and turbulence, representation and abstraction, foreground and horizon.

The artist’s process is one of rhythm and contradiction. Natural detail is pared back to heighten sensation and memory, while layering, shadow, and chromatic tension generate depth and atmosphere. Elsewhere, manmade structures intrude, dwarfed by vast, warped landscapes—an uneasy reminder of human intervention against the enduring magnitude of the natural world.

Grieve’s work pays little heed to borders or constructs; rather, it extends a painterly meditation on fragility, transcendence, and the possibility of escape. These landscapes—at once surreal, spiritual, and philosophical—unfold in ways that are both deeply personal and widely resonant.

With The Other Side, Grieve advances his painterly language, merging technical refinement with visionary imagination. The exhibition opens a space where the natural and the metaphysical converge, inviting us to step across thresholds and glimpse what lies beyond—the other side.