Gesso Art
Visit12 Fort Road, Margate
OpenTue–Sun · 10–18
Closed 30 August 2026

Low Light

Main Gallery

Low Light, Jonah Lisle

Dates

–

Space

Main Gallery

Artist

Jonah Lisle

Admission

Free

Thirty years of the same stretch of Cornish coast, in paintings made outdoors and finished indoors.

Low Light brought together forty paintings by Jonah Lisle, from early studies made at Porthmeor in the 1990s to canvases finished this spring. The sea changes; the view does not.

Installation views

Installation view of Low Light: dark-framed Cornish sea paintings around a daylit room
A visitor looks at a row of small stormy seascapes by Jonah Lisle
Framed coastal paintings of cliffs and grey sea hung along one wall

Around the exhibition

Talks, tours and workshops

A Japanese woodblock print of Mount Fuji above water and clouds
A Japanese woodblock print of Mount Fuji above a blue bay with sailing boats and pine trees
An ukiyo-e woodblock portrait of a woman in a patterned kimono
An ukiyo-e woodblock portrait of a woman in a black and red kimono with swirling water patterns
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