To mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme Leighton House Museum, in partnership with Eton College, present Seven Halts on The Somme by Hughie O’Donoghue RA. The exhibition presents a sequence of paintings recalling seven stopping points, where troops were halted during one of the bloodiest military battles in history, one hundred years ago. Each painting is a commemoration of an individual life explored through a painting process evocative of archaeological excavation.

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As as O’Donoghue states “Seven Halts on the Somme represents seven places where the army was stopped in 1916, seven places where lives were stopped and also seven places where I have stopped years later and tried to remember.”