Bet you didn't know landscape art looked like this...

Forget all the landscape paintings and drawings that you have seen, for this Spring Curious Duke Gallery will alter your definition. CDG's niche of surreal and urban art re-imagines our perceptions of classical landscapes as oil painting takes on graffiti and clouds drip from above in Vanishing Point. Burnt steel and chromatic mixed media drawings will grow over Curious Duke Gallery this March.

Curious Duke's landscape artists challenge the very definition of a landscape artwork. Picking motifs, Sam Peacock's abstracted landscapes, that comment on tone and texture, are ablaze with Australia, the Spice Trade and the UK's fair isle. Currently working on his Fractured series, Peacock is informed by the process of hydraulic fracturing with his high pressure shoots of paint and plaster being blown onto reclaimed steel sheets as we venture under the landscape. These layers of materials, often complimented with demerara sugar and coffee are fire blasted into earthy tones and reds, as the horizon of colours meet copper wire and plastic strips that melt together. Alongside, sit Emily Hannon's nostalgic layers of poetry and photography of flora and fauna. These incandescent steel sheets and waxy layers on canvas will change your perspective of horizons as your begin to be drawn into motifs rather than lines of city planning.

Staying far from the chaos of the city, Samantha Gare reaches new heights as she scales mountains and tough terrain to bring us lines that buzz with wildlife. Recalling Japanese wood cuts, Gare's mountain tops and turbulent cliffs are cut into the page with precise lines of ink, charcoal and acrylic. Her new collection of drawings bask in the glow of starry skies and wind carved waves wrap around the page. Juxtapose this with the abstract landscapes of Emma Hutley’s countryside and Emmylou Heidi Yeomans’ clouds that drip from the sky in delicate paint immerse you into flight and fancy. Wilderness has never been so poetic indoors.

Get back to the city with CDG's Andrea Tyrimos' luminous oil paintings of gritty urban cityscapes. Depicting East London graffiti, Tyrimos relishes the lights of city living as they glow behind landmarks throwing a haze over the periphery. This lingers on in the photography of Chris King, as we walk through desolate Texan towns spotted with lights.

Which landscape will you fall into?

Exhibiting artists: Andrea Tyrimos, Chris King, Emma Hutley, Emily Hannon, Emmylou Heidi Yeomans, Samantha Gare, Sam Peacock and Toby Deveson.