LONDON, ENGLAND.- StART SPACE presents Christopher Campbell - Epoch, on view through June 3, 2007. Epoch is a series of paintings that follow a theme of ambiguous storytelling. They depict England awash in a pseudo apocalyptic environment. Views of a desolate suburbia swathed in a disturbing light. Animals venture into view; horses and livestock normally tethered or penned in roam brazenly.

Wildlife encroaches from the shadows; deer unabashed stand in plain sight, in the middle of what would normally be a busy street. The scenes are suggestive, tells a yarn of something that has yet to happen, a biblical prophecy perhaps. The paintings are improbable but believable. It is a world that is fantastical, beautiful, humorous, yet darkly disturbing.

‘And so it is that a sense of disquiet and alienation is created by Campbell in his paintings, with the placing of animal life in urban landscapes. These are not like the paintings made in the 18th and 19th Centuries to record the cattle and livestock belonging to rich farmers and landowners, nor are they the, rather neurotic looking horses depicted by George Stubbs. These paintings are concerned with menace and threat.'

'A small dark painting, significantly titled Epoch, is particularly significant when seen in the context of the theme. It’s as if this work, dark with bitumen and having been at some point set alight, is itself a remnant, a survivor of some widespread and awesome conflagration.' (adapted from the essay by Daniel Lehan written for the exhibition’s catalogue).