“IF THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro’ narrow chinks of his cavern.” William Blake is well known as a multi-disciplinary and visionary artist, a man for whom anything deemed ‘narrow’ would be anathema. He’s also a figure who embodies a certain Britishness, largely courtesy of his words for the hymn Jerusalem, but, at The Fitzwilliam Museum this spring, an entirely new dimension of Blake’s art is on offer and it’s one that strongly resonates with our world today.
Sometimes seen as an eccentric figure or deemed a solitary genius, is the first exhibition to
