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In his first show at The Chappel Galleries for over two years ‘The Good, the Bad and the Ordinary’ (the title inspired by a Clint Eastwood spaghetti western film), is the perfection of Charles’s vision of beauty in the seemingly mundane. Highlights include: Grannies West Mersea – a family group seated by the road to the oyster sheds on Mersea island. Road ahead closed, Wivenhoe – a typical Essex back street temporarily closed on a summer’s day. Sleeping Twister, Long Melford captures the moment when a storm approaches a fairground ride under a foreboding Constablesque sky and St. Stephen's Chapel, Bures, a rare interior painting depicting the tomb of Thomas De Vere who fought with Henry V at the Battle of Agincourt.

As daffodils were to Wordsworth, the wheelie bins, chips shops and the lampposts of Essex are to Charles Debenham