'Underfoot', a solo exhibition by Sara Dobbs

The Gerald Moore Gallery is delighted to present 'Underfoot', a solo exhibition featuring a new series of textile pieces and paintings by London-based American artist, Sara Dobbs, in the Paul Henderson Gallery. Informed by a background in agriculture, her practice explores the terrain as both a living system and a vessel of memory, history, and growth. Rather than a single physical surface, the land is dynamic, an intricate layering of soil, roots, insects and microbes, where what lies beneath sustains what is seen above.

The private view will be on Thursday 15th January from 6 to 8pm and the exhibition runs from 15th January to the 14th February 2026.

Rendered in saturated, non-naturalistic hues, the works depict American landscapes, mountains, trees, and bodies of water, refracted through layers of colour and perception. Each work captures not a single place, but the act of traversing a landscape: paths formed by repeated steps, traces that alter and inscribe the land.

At the centre of the exhibition, a large chiffon wall hanging extends these ideas, its translucent blocks of colour merging with the space, evoking the porous, layered nature of landscape itself. Together, the paintings and textiles consider how we move through, shape, and are shaped by the ground beneath our feet.