Everyday Wonder to Revelation: an exhibition of paintings by Alan Caine

Fri 10 October 2025 - Thu 20 November 2025

Clare Hall

Alan Caine was an innovative and quietly charismatic teacher of art in the Adult Education Department of Leicester University. He took a primary role in the conception, funding and design of the University’s Attenborough Arts Centre, which opened in 1997. He was its associate director and continued teaching there until he was almost 80 years old.

In the midst of that busy academic life he took time, in the upstairs studio of his redbrick terrace house, to paint and draw. Caine’s art grasps at the essence of the everyday natural world. Its detritus found its way into that Leicester studio: fallen leaves, dried grasses, tangled vine stalks, eggs, rugs, and string. In these humble elements, their unfolding patterns, colour and geometry, Caine discovered a profound sense of wonder. Through the familiar and ordinary, he opens our eyes to the possibilities of the beyond.

Cost: Free