John Wonnacott As the Kingdom mobilizes its

As the Kingdom mobilizes its vast resources behind the economic and social priorities of its Vision 2030 strategy and simultaneously seeks new terms of engagement with the international community

art is set to take centre stage and a barrage of planned events

shallows to mysterious depths – have brought forth paintings that communicate the sea's ebb and flow

maturing and mature

John Wonnacott As the Kingdom mobilizes itsIn this first major study of the work of the painter John Wonnacott (b. 1940), Charles Saumarez Smith has surveyed a body of work produced at a tangent to the orthodoxies of modernism. Exploring the artist's formative experiences at the Slade, which connected him with artists such as Frank Auerbach and Michael Andrews and the School of London more broadly, Saumarez Smith roots Wonnacott's approach in his commitment to the discipline of drawing, his