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John Holcomb’s new exhibition of paintings is inspired by the mould-breaking, proto-Pop, ‘Echoes’ series created during the 1920s by British artist Walter Sickert (1860-1942). Sickert took vintage black-and-white woodblock illustrations - and re-imagined them on a larger scale in colour and in paint. His colour choices were sometimes bold and often anti-naturalistic. These painted ‘echoes’ were - and remain - both daringly modern and subversively nostalgic.

The Kansas-based artist, John Holcomb, adopts the same strategy but transplants it to his native Midwest. His found images - of dusty …