February 2026: Anne Briggs & Roscoe Lipin
This February, The Rising Gallery brings together two Somerset-based artists whose work explores landscape, identity, and perception in quietly powerful ways.
Roscoe Lipin’s A Liminal Dialogue moves between the mythic and the visceral, capturing subjects in a shifting, almost otherworldly state — where identity feels fluid and unresolved.
Alongside this, Anne Briggs’ Hills and Houses offers a grounded, textural response to the Mendip landscape, using linocut to explore the forms of buildings nestled within rolling hills and fields.
Together, the exhibition creates a conversation between the ephemeral and the familiar — between fleeting presence and rooted place.
Hills and Houses | Anne Briggs
Artist Statement
Having lived in the Mendip area of Somerset, my sketchbooks began to be filled with drawings of hills and houses of my local area. Walking along paths and across fields, my eyes always seemed to be drawn to the shapes and textures of buildings, that sit amongst the hills and fields of this part of Somerset.
Looking for a medium that I felt could convey this landscape I happened upon linoleum and saw how this material could be used as the primary medium. From afar the pieces look graphic, up close the, the markings made by the carving technique show the textural elements of the houses and hills.
Saint Hughs Church, Charterhouse, which was formerly a miners meeting hall, and a stone agricultural barn in the hamlet of Spargrove, combined with the shapes and textures of the surrounding countryside, are the basis of this body of work.
A Liminal Dialogue | Roscoe Lipin
Artist Statement
These photographs inhabit the liminal space between the mythic and the visceral. By collapsing the distance between representation and the living form, the artist challenges the viewer to confront a reality where the subject is no longer a fixed entity, but a flickering, precarious state of being.
Roscoe Xavier Lipin is a Somerset-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice operates at the intersection of fine art photography, portraiture and music. Based in the Shepton Mallet area, he has cultivated a creative identity defined by a raw, observational aesthetic and a deep engagement with the culture and landscape of Britain.