Alison Watt: From Light review – hollow heads and spectral sheets loaded with meaning

Pitzhanger Manor and Gallery, London
Watt’s bleak nothingness casts spectral shadows – it is positively strange to look this hard at things nowadaysSir John Soane was a melancholy soul. Not content with a skull as a memento mori, he acquired the stone sarcophagus of pharaoh Seti I, which gapes like the mouth to the Underworld in the shadow-filled basement of his museum at Lincoln’s Inn Fields. Two hundred years on, at his country house at Ealing, his fellow spirit, the painter