In 2019, they worked together on Goss’s first institutional show, ‘Morley’s Mirror’ at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester. Martin says: “It was very exciting for us to be showing a substantial body of his paintings, some loaned from international collectors, with ambitious new works painted especially for the exhibition. Nick also selected and hung Modern British artworks from the Pallant House Gallery collection to create a conversation between his work and the artists he admires, such as Edward Burra, Eileen Agar, Christopher Wood, Richard Hamilton and Michael Andrews. It was an immensely rich and engaging dialogue, and it was a great accolade that one of these new works, Lay-By, was subsequently acquired by The Met Museum in New York for its collection.”

Nick agrees: “I was very lucky to be given the chance to look through the Pallant House collection and select some works to accompany my exhibition. It was wonderful to see the same Eileen Agar collages, Paul Nash etchings and Michael Andrews paintings that I had been obsessed with at college and have the opportunity to place these works together alongside some of my paintings. The idea of communing with artists across different historical times was incredibly exciting.”

Goss’s latest solo show, ‘Margaritas at the Mall’, opened on Friday at Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin and is the product of sketches and collages he made from photos taken while wandering through Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre. “At the moment, I draw a lot of influence from different areas of London,” he says. “[The centre] was eventually knocked down this year, but for around five years it has been caught in a form of limbo, not yet destroyed, but the shops and people have been evacuated out of the building. In their place, local South American communities had set up temporary restaurants and shops in this yawning, sixties shopping mall. It was an exciting place to walk around and experience – the sort of place that makes London feel like a real functioning city. In a space like this, time can start to slip and collapse and can contain a strange psychology that I think painting is the perfect medium in which to explore.”

This month will also see Goss’s work in a group show at Massimo De Carlo gallery, before solo shows in Los Angeles and Scotland moving into next year.