December 2014 saw the staging of the inaugural Tunbridge Wells Art Trail organised by Artists Unveiled. Spread across the entire town, the trail features 30 Artists and 17 unique spaces.

Taking its name from the vacant shop that it inhabits, ‘Special Things’ comprises of three new site-specific works by Edward Liddle.

Monumental in size, the specially shaped paintings directly reference a Photograph by German Artist Thomas Struth, in which restorers at the San Lorenzo Maggiore in Naples stand surrounded by large paintings awaiting repair. Seeking to build upon these layers of Art History, this new body of work continues the artists’ examinations into the relationship between ‘High Art History’ and what he terms ‘Everyday Painting’; the painted surfaces of windows, doors and painterly mannerisms that exist outside of an art world environment.

Installed directly in the shop, the gestural painterly marks and rich immersive colour of the individual ‘Whitewash Studies’ create a unique presence into which viewers are invited to join.

Being presented alongside the ‘Whitewash Studies’ is a specially chosen set of works taken from the artists’ continuing series using found postcards. Although these works, placed to the rear of the shop, reflect some colour and mark making found in the ‘Whitewash Studies’ they draw upon different ideas about the potentiality of Painting.

Exhibited together, these two bodies of work set out to further explore what it means to make Paintings today.