Exhibition: John Timberlake: Berwick Sequence at The Granary Gallery

A new exhibition by acclaimed British artist John Timberlake will open at The Granary Gallery this March, bringing a deeply personal and reflective body of work inspired by Berwick-upon-Tweed’s landscape, coastline and deep geological history.

Berwick Sequence presents a series of seven paintings created following Timberlake’s return to the town in 2024, a place he first visited as a child in the 1970s. The memory of Berwick, its coastal setting and the shifting character of the River Tweed made a lasting impression on the artist, drawing him back decades later at a moment of personal reflection following the death of his father.

The resulting works respond to the fleeting changes of light and weather that define the Tweed estuary, alongside the slower geological transformations visible in the surrounding landscape. Together, the paintings explore landscape not simply as a place, but as an accumulation of time, memory and experience.

The exhibition presents seven untitled paintings alongside two large-scale preparatory drawings, offering insight into Timberlake’s process. The works have intentionally been left without titles or numbering, allowing visitors to experience the sequence in any order. Recurring visual motifs