Solihull Arts Complex

An exhibition responding to Cervantes' Don Quixote de la Mancha. Initially inspired by the marvellous engravings of Gustav Dore in an illustrated edition of the famous book, Tom Ranahan invited thirteen other artists to join him on a visual adventure in response to Cervantes' masterpiece.

The exhibition coincides with World Book Day 2026 - appropriate as Cervantes was one of three great literary figures that inspired the celebration of world literature. Though written in the early 17th century in Spain, the themes raised by the novel still resonate today - the humour, comic situations, perceptions of reality, morality in a cynical world. These are some of the themes that create fertile ideas for artists to explore.

May we all go 'tilting at windmills'.

Artists exhibiting:

Sharon Baker

Jocelyn Burke (Bordeaux)

Robert Chard

Graham Chorlton

Frank Edmunds

Stephen George

Peter Grego

Helen Grundy

Paul Newman

Tom Ranahan

Stephen Earl Rogers

Alistair Scruton

Lee Williams (Vermont, USA)

Emma Woolley

Image: Don Quixote. Acrylic on canvas. 2020.