Sophie Bartlett Exhibition

Sophie Bartlett has a solo exhibition running at The Salisbury Museum from Saturday 26 September 2026 through to Sunday 10 January 2027, held in the Small Exhibition Gallery. It's a long run, so you've got plenty of time to fit it in over the autumn and winter.

Bartlett is a painter who grew up on a Hampshire farm and trained as an artist and painter-decorator. She did an Art Foundation at West Surrey College of Art & Design in 1980 and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Hull College of Art in 1983, before later completing an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art, where she was awarded the Vice-Chancellor's Achievement Scholarship in 2024. Her work starts with sustained looking: extensive observational drawing that opens into paint, working through a dialogue between perception and memory in search of what she calls 'pictorial rightness'.

This particular show follows a residency she spent at the museum in May 2026. In the year since, she's been drawing and painting across the landscapes of Wiltshire and Hampshire, from the county's chalk downland and valleys to the linseed fields of the South Downs. It's a local connection that runs deep: she won the inaugural Salisbury Landscape Open in 2025 with Hawkley Hangers VI, and this exhibition brings together the work that's come since.

You'll find it in the Small Exhibition Gallery at The Salisbury Museum, The King's House, 65 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP1 2EN. Entry is included in admission, and there's no need to book.