Sahara Longe

Preview: written before the show opened

Venetia Digby died in her sleep in 1633, aged 32, and her husband Kenelm sent for Anthony van Dyck to paint her before she was buried. He posed her as if sleeping: hand against her cheek, hair falling loose from a nightcap, a pearl necklace she would never have slept in, and rose petals scattered across the white sheet. That painting belongs to Dulwich, and it is the starting point here.

Sahara Longe, born in 1994 and trained in Florence in traditional oil technique, has made a new series of paintings in reply, about love and loss, grief and heartbreak. They fill a single room. You walk in among figures that sit somewhere between portraiture and abstraction, soft and saturated with colour. It is part of Unlocking Paintings, the Gallery's series of displays that set new work against its historic collection.

It's included with a Gallery admission ticket, and Friends go free. Jacqueline Marval, booked separately, runs in the same building until 9 May.