This will be the first in-depth survey of Homer"s work to appear in the UK, but the show is a revelation, whatever the viewer"s familiarity with his work. Homer"s eye for the dramatic detail makes each work of his into a story, which the viewer enters into with empathy and emotion. His scenes of the US Civil War (1861-1865) make more than real the legacy of conflict, both in terms of the human cost and the wastage of nature. His seascapes feature the ports, villages and communities of Maine as well as of England and the Bahamas – all places that harbour nature"s breathtaking beauty as well as its attendant, sometimes fatal, risks and wrecks, which only heroic, gasp-producing rescues can help avert.