Candida Stevens Gallery is a curation led gallery established in 2013. The gallery produces exhibitions that explore important themes through the responses of new or relevant work by notable emerging and established artists working in Britain today. With an energetic, curatorial curiosity the gallery works with artists who we believe have the skill, determination, enquiry and aptitude to make successful and interesting work.
Forthcoming
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Collect Art Fair
26 Feb - 2 Mar 2025 We are excited to be returning to Somerset House for the fifth year running to present the work of; Room W16. Marice Cumber - Ceramics Manya Goldman - Hand embroidery Alice Kettle - Machine embroidery YiMiao Shin - Hand embroidery This year we introduce three new artists to the fair;... Read more -
1 Large : 2 Small - 10 Artists
8 - 22 Mar 2025 Over three Saturdays and two weeks we welcome you to come and view a range of work, painting, textiles, bronzes and ceramics by nine artists, two of them showing with us for the first time. With a playful curatorial concept (loosely adhered to) of mixing large and small works, all... Read more -
Charlotte Brisland
5 - 25 Apr 2025 We are looking forward to presenting Charlotte Brisland's first solo show with the gallery. Read more -
Pippa Blake
10 - 24 May 2025 We are delighted to host a solo show for Pippa Blake. More info to follow. Read more -
Stock Sale
24 - 31 May 2025 Over the years we have acquired works by a range of artists with whom we have worked, ranging from RAs to emerging artists. Some of them we have bought for exhibitions, others for ourselves. We have more than we have space for, something many collectors will identify with! ;) We... Read more
Past
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London Art Fair
22 - 26 Jan 2025 The gallery in Chichester is now open by Appointment while we focus on London based events. We are looking forward to returning to the London Art Fair. Stand 43. Showing; Charlotte Brisland, Fred Coppin, Kerry Harding, Calum McClure, Ben Crawford, Charlotte Edsell and Kate Viner. VIP PREVIEW Tuesday 21 January... Read more -
Small Works - Online only
16 Nov - 14 Dec 2024 Introducing a number of new artists and a broad range of new work. Charlotte Brisland, YiMiao Shih and Manya Goldman all join the gallery ahead of the 2025 art fair season. YiMiao and Manya, both students of the Royal College, London, work with thread based practices and will be showing... Read more -
As if by Osmosis, Kerry Harding & Lucas Reiner
9 Nov - 6 Dec 2024 Candida Stevens Gallery is delighted to present ‘As if by Osmosis’, a joint exhibition of new works by Kerry Harding, an English painter based in North Cornwall, and Lucas Reiner, an American painter with studios in Los Angeles and Porto. Both artists look to their surroundings for inspiration, focusing on... Read more -
Tethered to Gravity: Ben Crawford & Charlotte Edsell
12 Oct - 1 Nov 2024 Ben Crawford – Glorious rich saturated colours create scenes that oscillate between reality and utopia. Expressions and emotions are held in the gestural figures, some caught in conversation, others alone and perhaps contemplative. The dexterous juxtaposition of brights and darks pulse off each other creating depth and movement. A set... Read more -
Eggshibition in support of Chichester Festival Theatre's Nest Appeal
2 - 6 Oct 2024 One hundred artists have created their own individual, decorative egg. From Gavin Turk to Philip Jackson CVO, along with competition winners from our Youth Theatre members and local artists - the range is stunning. Enjoy this unique eggshibition and then bid for your favourite at the online auction where all... Read more -
Fred Coppin, Pursuit
7 - 27 Sep 2024 With an ever-present sense of appreciation Fred Coppin set about to produce this latest body of work. Contemplating the ‘tools’ that we use to support life, things we can absorb ourselves with, be rewarded by, use as markers to navigate our lives. From coffee, to chess, to dinner parties, to... Read more -
Dark & Light, Alice Kettle
1 - 21 Jun 2024 DARK AND LIGHT The faces and figures in Alice Kettle’s narrative embroideries emerge full of vivid life from apparent indeterminacy and hesitation. They loom into view out of agitated backgrounds, brightly coloured or mysteriously dark, flecked and striated. Some are momentarily full of the joy of greeting, of... Read more -
Blue Sky Red, Veronica Smirnoff
@ Cromwell Place, London 21 - 26 May 2024 Blue Sky Red Candida Stevens Gallery is delighted to present Blue Sky Red, the largest solo exhibition of Veronica Smirnoff’s work to date in the UK. Offering a unique opportunity to trace the artist’s development over the last twenty years, this exhibition showcases the artist’s expertise and commitment to the... Read more -
Cecilia Charlton & Charlotte Evans
Myths & Annunciations 20 Apr - 9 May 2024 Candida Stevens Gallery is pleased to present Myths & Annunciations, an exhibition exploring the ways in which two artists working in very different styles have been inspired by the same period of art history. Cecilia Charlton is an American-born textile artist living in the UK, who uses bargello embroidery to... Read more -
Miniatures for Macmillan
16 Mar - 6 Apr 2024 18 artists are busy making new work for our Miniatures for Macmillan exhibition. This is a fund raising exhibition to raise money in support of the excellent work offered by Macmillan Cancer Care charity. We are so grateful to all of the artists and excited to be working with some... Read more -
Collect Art Fair
The Self 28 Feb - 3 Mar 2024 Alice Kettle’s latest series, In the Midst of the Crowd, explores the icon as a form of portraiture. Originally created and used as objects of devotion in Eastern Orthodoxy, icons were created as portals to a sacred space and as a means for people to connect with God. Like religious... Read more -
London Art Fair
16 - 21 Jan 2024 We look forward to welcoming you to our Stand 43, (same location as last year) on the ground floor/mezzanine of the Business Design Centre for the London Art Fair. 52 Upper Street, London N1. We will be showing work by Celia Cook, Fred Coppin, Kerry Harding, Katharine Le Hardy, Olivia... Read more -
100 works under £1,500
9 Dec 2023 - 13 Jan 2024 100 works under £1,500 by; Pippa Blake, Nici Bungey, Cecilia Charlton, Fred Coppin, Calum McClure, Celia Cook, Charlotte Edsell, Charlotte Evans, Alice Kettle, Irene Lees, Katharine Le Hardy, Kerry Harding, Anthony Stevens Painting, textile art and print making all feature and all work is available to buy online. As an... Read more -
Fred Coppin - A Well-Constructed Treehouse
London 21 - 26 Nov 2023 Inspired by Bill Nighy’s contribution to a book of essays entitled ‘Modern Delights’, Fred Coppin began compiling a list. A list of things that bring the artist a unique and particular sense of joy. These are the highly personal and pleasingly specific observations of life that bring an acute, if... Read more -
Winter Exhibition
18 Nov - 9 Dec 2023 Groupings of work by several of our gallery artists. Be they grouped by theme, colour, place or concept this is a fun opportunity to see abstract alongside figurative, and painting alongside embroidery. This group of five paintings by Calum McClure are the first that he has exhibited since his move... Read more -
British Art Fair
Pippa Blake, Celia Cook, Kerry Harding, Katharine Le Hardy - Stand 34a 28 Sep - 1 Oct 2023 The British Art Fair Opening hours: Collectors' Preview, Thursday 28 September, 12 noon – 9pm Friday 29 September, 11am – 8pm Saturday 30 September, 11am – 6pm Sunday 1 October, 11am – 5pm Last entry is half an hour before the fair is due to close. Address: Saatchi Gallery, Duke... Read more -
Arnolfini; Bristol Presents; Threads: ‘Breathing stories into materials’ - Co-curated by Alice Kettle
8 Jul - 1 Oct 2023 'Threads, a major exhibition featuring 21 contemporary international artists and makers, who use textiles as their chosen medium, co - curated by Alice Kettle. Celebrating material and making, these artists use the storytelling power of textiles to connect with past traditions, find commonalities between cultures, time and place, and to... Read more -
To Boldly Sew: Textile Art by Alice Kettle
Presented by Brookfield Properties and The Crafts Council at 99 Bishopsgate and 30 Fenchurch St, London 5 Jul - 29 Sep 2023 Open to the public 5th July-29th September 7am-7pm Venues: 99 Bishopsgate London, EC2M 3XD 30 Fenchurch St. London, EC3M 3 BD Several significant and large works made over nearly twenty years feature in what is a large scale solo presentation of the artists work over two London venues. The works... Read more -
Summer Exhibition
Online and By Appt. 24 Jun - 22 Jul 2023 This is a range of work selected for its evocation of Summer, whether painted in past years or past months, it is the mood of the work that counts. It is an opportunity to see a number of our artists side by side and all the wonderful unexpected connections that... Read more -
Fred Coppin, Spring release
19 May - 13 Jun 2023 Inspired by travel, Fred Coppin's Spring 2023 collection allows one to roam from California to Morocco, Spain to Belize. We hope you enjoy the wanderings these paintings elicit in you. Light and colour play a significant role in Coppin’s work. This stems from his interest in photography and, more deeply,... Read more -
Charlotte Evans, Kiss the Joy that Flies
13 May - 7 Jun 2023 13 May - 9 June Candida Stevens Gallery Chichester, PO19 1BA. Open Wed, Thurs & Fri 10-5 Sat, 11-2 & By Appt. On the shelf of Charlotte Evans’s studio, some 3,500 thousand miles away from London in Toronto, Canada, is a catalogue of paintings from the National Gallery’s collection. In... Read more -
When Feeling Out of Sight; Kerry Harding & Katharine Le Hardy. Ceramics by Oriel Zinaburg.
25 Mar - 23 Apr 2023 Candida Stevens Gallery is proud to present When Feeling Out of Sight, an exhibition of landscapes by Katharine Le Hardy and Kerry Harding, an exhibition that showcases the emotional potential of landscape painting. The landscape and geology inspired sculptures of Oriel Zinaburg compliment the paintings in both style and approach... Read more -
Collect at Somerset House
1 - 5 Mar 2023 Stand W11, next to the VIP Room. We will be presenting the work of six artists; Alice Kettle, Textile, Cecilia Charlton, Textile, Anthony Stevens, Textile, Suzanne Knight, Textile, Claire Curneen, Ceramic, Oriel Zinaburg, Ceramic All six artists have made new work for the fair and have written about their... Read more -
Anthony Stevens, The Constant Instant
18 - 25 Feb 2023 The philosophy of circularity is central to Anthony Stevens' practice. A self-taught artist who embroiders fabrics both found and gifted to him, it is the elemental concept of causation and rebirth that is central to his Buddist practice, along with a wicked sense of humour, that plays out through his... Read more -
Cecilia Charlton, Syzygy
28 Jan - 11 Feb 2023 Cecilia Charlton trained as a painter, but it is in textiles that she has found her medium. In her intricate embroideries and weavings abstract patterns of numinous power emerge from shimmering multi-coloured backgrounds. Whether achieved through the use of thread on cotton canvas, enlivened by paint and gilding, or through... Read more -
London Art Fair 2023
If you could save one place. . . . . 17 - 22 Jan 2023 Stand 43, Mezzanine / Ground floor level For the 2023 edition of London Art Fair, 12 artists have made a work in response to the question, If you could save one place . . . This sparked a range of responses from the artists. Interestingly only a few of... Read more -
Water & Ways
an exhibition of artworks inspired by Sussex, post war and contemporary 19 Nov - 10 Dec 2022 The Sussex landscape has long been a source of inspiration to artists. While landscape painting has gone in and out of fashion, the calling to artists has endured. “Landscape leaves an emotional imprint upon us, touched by own memories and those of generations who have gone before. Great landscape painting... Read more -
place - displace
Ben Crawford, Charlotte Evans and Veronica Smirnoff 8 - 13 Nov 2022 Candida Stevens Gallery is pleased to present place - displace, a group show exploring the enduring impact of one’s roots and the inevitable consequential influence on ones contemplations, as seen in the creative outputs of three artists who now live hundreds of miles from where they were born; Charlotte Evans,... Read more -
Fred Coppin, Light Speed
8 - 13 Nov 2022 This new body of work charts an important personal stage in the artist's life, as he moves into the domain of parenthood. Human relationships come to the fore, and we see connections between people and place form. The work conveys an underlying sense of human intimacy. This is a collection... Read more -
Pippa Blake, Undercurrents
28 Oct - 11 Nov 2022 In Undercurrents, painter Pippa Blake presents a new body of work exploring the calming serenity and hidden dangers of creeks, streams, and rivers. Born from the centrality of voyaging by sea, land, and air to the artist’s life and career, this collection of paintings looks at waterways as routes of... Read more -
British Art Fair
29 Sep - 2 Oct 2022 We look forward to presenting the work of five women artists in their 50s, 60s and 70s. Pippa Blake, b. 1954 Blake studied Fine Art at Camberwell College of Art (1972 - 1976) gaining BA Honours (First Class). In 2005 she graduated from the Visual Arts Programme, West... Read more -
Autumn Program 2022
10 Sep - 11 Nov 2022 Autumn Program, 2022 6 - 18 September Olivia Stanton, solo show Green & Stone Gallery, London (Private view, Tuesday 6 September, 6-8pm) 29 September – 2 October British Art Fair Saatchi Gallery, London (5 figurative female artists in their 50’s-70s reflect on how we can serve and save our Planet... Read more -
Olivia Stanton, Behind the Curve
At The Gallery at Green & Stone, London 6 - 17 Sep 2022 One gets the sense that Olivia Stanton sees the world differently to most people. Where one person simply sees the edge of a roof, she sees a pleasing intersection of perpendicular forms. Instead of just a bird sitting on the branch of a tree, she sees the joyful curve of... Read more -
Kerry Harding, Edge of Day
11 Jun - 8 Jul 2022 Of Their Peculiar Light Of their peculiar light I keep one ray To clarify the sight To seek them by - Emily Dickinson Candida Stevens Gallery is proud to present Kerry Harding’s debut solo show, Edge of Day, a new body of work that puts the peculiarity of light... Read more -
Celia Cook, Ostinato
14 May - 4 Jun 2022 Ostinato 1-38 is a series of unique woodcuts inspired by musical improvisation or the jam session - a process both structured and intuitive. An ostinato (Italian, meaning obstinate) is a melodic phrase or rhythm continually repeated throughout a composition. This series of woodcuts reuses the same woodblocks in repeated but... Read more -
London Art Fair, Platform, Stand G47
20 - 24 Apr 2022 Candida Stevens is delighted to have been invited to curate Platform at the London Art Fair for the third year. For this edition the theme of Platform is 'Music and its part in Contemporary Visual Art'. We will be showing the work of three artists on our Platform stand and... Read more -
London Art Fair, Mezzanine, Stand 17
20 - 24 Apr 2022 Main Fair: Stand 17 on the ground floor/mezzanine we will be showing work by: Fred Coppin Alice Kettle Katharine Le Hardy Olivia Stanton Candida Stevens Gallery presents the work of four living artists. Alice Kettle (b.1961) Poppy by Alice Kettle is a memorial piece made in honour of women refugees... Read more -
Calum McClure, Trees
9 Apr - 7 May 2022 In his second solo exhibition at the gallery Calum McClure reflects upon one of his longstanding preoccupations, trees. The exhibition brings together work spanning a ten-year period, the oldest painting is Falling Tree I, (2012) from a series which focused on the felling of sequoias in California. Along with these... Read more -
Jeremy Gardiner, Contraband
5 Mar - 1 Apr 2022 ‘Every time I paint the coast,’ says Jeremy Gardiner, ‘it’s from a new viewpoint.’ The paintings brought together under the title of ‘Contraband’ explore the coasts of southern England in relation to their long-standing and notorious connection with smuggling. Tremendous glamour attaches to the myth of the smugglers of the... Read more -
Collect 2022
the leading international fair for contemporary craft and design 23 - 27 Feb 2022 We are delighted to be returning to Somerset House for the 2022 edition of Collect. 25-27 February 2022 (previews 23-24 February) Four artists make work in response to the iconic Somerset House. Originally built as a glamorous, palatial building for Edward Seymour the Duke of Somerset in 1547, Somerset House... Read more -
P R O X I M I T Y
15 Jan - 11 Feb 2022 Candida Stevens Gallery presents the work of four women artists, work made in 2020/21 in response to the female experience of isolation. Ranging in age from 40-74 they needless to say had very differing experiences. Alice Kettle (b.1961) The past two years have seen a shift in Kettle’s work. For... Read more -
Little Landscapes
21 Nov - 11 Dec 2021 Seven artists make small landscape inspired works. All works in this exhibition are available to be viewed on request in the gallery until 11th December. Pippa Blake - works inspired by waterways in New Zealand Charlotte Edsell - works inspired by the changing forms of the landscape Kerry Harding -... Read more -
Fred Coppin: 22 Degrees
20 Nov - 11 Dec 2021 Opening Times Mon. By Appointment Tue. By Appointment Wed 10am - 5pm Thurs 10am - 5pm Fri 10am - 5pm Sat 11am - 2 pm Sun. Closed 22 degrees is said to be the temperature at which humanity is most comfortable and emotionally stable. Fred Coppin’s work is concerned with... Read more -
Alice Kettle, ThreadBound
16 Oct - 12 Nov 2021 For centuries humans have exchanged flowers as an expression of the entire emotional range and throughout art history they have been symbolic. People have long imbued flowers with personal, cultural, and religious significance and creatives have been drawn to them for their evocative qualities, “When you take a flower in... Read more -
Katharine Le Hardy, If Wishes Were Horses
11 Sep - 8 Oct 2021 This body of work by Katharine Le Hardy looks at the history of play and the elemental simplicity of this aspect of childhood . Through play children learn and develop in every way; cognitive, physical, creative, social, and imaginative. Our childhood memories often orientate around play; most of us will... Read more -
Nici Bungey & Adam Dix - OVERLAP
12 Jun - 10 Jul 2021 Adam Dix in conversation with Candida Stevens, watch video here Nici Bungey in conversation with Candida Stevens, watch video here Saturday 19th June 11-2pm - Meet the Artist, Nici Bungey in gallery / General reception, drinks will be served, Friday 25th June, 5 - 7.30pm / Saturday 10th... Read more -
Anthony Stevens, Our Own Reflections
8 May - 5 Jun 2021 In his vividly embroidered textiles, Anthony Stevens touches upon a wide array of narratives, thoughts and themes. Magpie-like in what he is drawn to and what appears in his work, ultimately these artworks are about the human being, our behaviours and the confluence of our inner and outer lives. In... Read more -
Weathering the Storm
Kerry Harding & Chitra Merchant 9 Apr - 1 May 2021 From 12th April we will be OPEN for drop in visitors on Wednesdays & Thursdays, 10-5pm BY APPOINTMENT ONLY Fridays 11-6pm and Saturdays, 11-2pm Trees bear witness to our climate, harbour stories of past times, and weather storms year after year. Coastal trees become sculpted by constant battering of onshore... Read more -
1 LARGE : 2 small
12 Feb - 20 Mar 2021 Pippa Blake's (b.1954) paintings are imbued with soulfulness, and the moments captured in them feel unstable or unfixed, as though the viewer is witnessing the scene from a peripheral viewpoint. The paintings describe uncanny scenes that are at once familiar but so fleeting that they remain just out of reach.... Read more -
LAF Edit: Platform
18 - 29 Jan 2021 Candida Stevens presents three artists who look at history. Katharine Le Hardy explores the cultural heritage of play, recording the most universally enduring childhood games, demonstrating the elemental importance and significance of togetherness. Anthony Stevens, a self-taught artist influenced by Buddhism makes several works inspired by Tibetan Prayer Flags shining... Read more -
London Art Fair, Main Fair
17 - 31 Jan 2021 FRED COPPIN: Fred Coppin (b. 1989) captures an eternal sense of optimism in his work through a distinctive combination of amplified colour and playful forms, in which he exaggerates the world into a permanently dream-like state that allows us, as viewers, to linger in a moment of utopian calm. Through... Read more -
Fred Coppin, Towards the Light
14 Nov - 19 Dec 2020 Fred Coppin (b. 1989) captures an eternal sense of optimism in his work through a distinctive combination of amplified colour and playful forms, in which he exaggerates the world into a permanently dream-like state that allows us, as viewers, to linger in a moment of utopian calm. Through exploring an... Read more -
Cecilia Charlton, Aurora
10 Oct - 7 Nov 2020 London-based American artist Cecilia Charlton creates technicolour, highly-patterned textile works that reference personal and cultural histories while questioning notions of medium by bringing together traditions of painting, craft, abstraction, and folk art. At the Royal College of Art Cecilia trained in painting. However the influence of a life time, observing... Read more -
Olivia Stanton, Soundings
12 Sep - 3 Oct 2020 Olivia Stanton (b.1949) trained at Byam School of Art (now part of Central Saint Martins), London from 1973-77 under the tutelage of Wynn Jones and Bill Jacklin. Olivia’s work uses rich colour to fuse moments of bold geometry with hints of natural form, the work is sophisticated and visually stunning.... Read more -
Pippa Blake, On The Road
3 - 31 Jul 2020 We are all constantly moving towards something and moving beyond. We wonder what is coming, often searching for the light or noticing that it is there. Pippa Blake makes atmospheric paintings about moving through the landscape; the fleeting glimpses this reveals and the emotional journeys it triggers. She is drawn... Read more -
Isolated Observations
16 artists make 4 works in 4 weeks in response to this time, in aid of Winston’s Wish. OPEN BY APPOINTMENT. 1 - 27 Jun 2020 16 artists make 4 works in 4 weeks in response to this time with 100% of gallery profits donated to Winston’s Wish . Who are the invisible victims of this time? There are likely to be many, but amongst the particularly vulnerable are children who have been bereaved. Children who... Read more -
Charlotte Edsell, Below Another Sky
Open By Appointment 4 Apr - 27 Jun 2020 The title ‘Below Another Sky’ comes from the poem ‘Travel’ by Robert Louis Stevenson and was the beginning of the journey for this new body of work. The poem, a favourite of Charlotte's as a child, a child whose imagination was captured as much by the words as the artwork,... Read more -
Lawrence Dicks, Breathe
Open By Appointment 4 Apr - 27 Jun 2020 LAWRENCE DICKS, BREATHE Lawrence Dicks’ new sculptures are concerned with the experience of being alive. The title of this body of work, Breathe, originates in an observation of his own breath. Lawrence describes a cold November walk on Climping beach near his home in West Sussex, how he was conscious... Read more -
Olivia Stanton, Soundings
in association with The Green & Stone Gallery, London 11 - 25 Mar 2020 Olivia Stanton (b.1949) trained at Byam School of Art (now part of Central Saint Martins), London from 1973-77. Olivia’s work is sophisticated and her use of paint masterful. The authority of Olivia’s work transmits from an astonishingly matt paint surface, the matt surface exudes a calm that draws the viewer... Read more -
Lindy Guinness, Windows, Clandeboye
29 Feb - 3 Apr 2020 This is a personal and intimate series of paintings by Lindy Guinness, more formally known as Lady Dufferin, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava and is her first exhibition representing exclusively interiors. After exhibiting Lindy’s landscape paintings as part of our Ivon Hitchens & his lasting influence exhibition, I was researching... Read more -
Alice Kettle at COLLECT
The International Art Fair for Modern Craft and Design 26 Feb - 1 Mar 2020 Stand W15 (West Wing) 27 Feb - 1 March 2020 at Somerset House, London WC2R 1LA Textiles offer a powerful medium through which to explore themes of cultural heritage, journeys and displacement. This exploration was central to Alice Kettle’s ambitious Thread Bearing Witness project shown at The Whitworth, Manchester and... Read more -
Giorgia Siriaco, Slowing Down
1 - 14 Feb 2020 Influenced by her immediate surroundings; the light, the seasons, the often overlooked details of a place, Giorgia strives for, and achieves, balance in shape and colour. She intuitively builds up and strips away at her paintings until she can articulate a sensation. Giorgia works in mixed media, using a combination... Read more -
Alice Kettle, Within Each Other, Portraits of Ourselves
Part of Threading Forms at London Art Fair 21 - 26 Jan 2020 Stand G47 at London Art Fair. Candida Stevens, guest curator for the 2020 edition of London Art Fair’s Platform, Threading Forms , presents one of the UK’s leading textile artists, Alice Kettle. We are delighted to present a new body of work by Alice Kettle, Within Each Other, Portraits of... Read more -
Present Day - Supporting Living Artists
Living Treasures … nearly 100 small works by 30 artists working in the present day. 23 Nov - 21 Dec 2019 As a gallery we strongly believe in supporting living artists, so are delighted to be showing small unique works by 26 artists, all working in the present day. Read more -
What we ChoOse to See
19 Oct - 16 Nov 2019 What we ChoOse to See What do artists choose to represent from what they see, and what do we choose to see in what they represent. What do we see? Why do we see the way we do? And what do we not see? How much of this is controlled... Read more -
Sussex Landscapes, Jeremy Gardiner & Calum McClure
25 Sep - 12 Oct 2019 25 - 28 Sept Chilgrove 2 - 12 Oct Chichester Two highly regarded British landscape artists, Jeremy Gardiner and Calum McClure, exhibit their first body of work inspired by Sussex. Gardiner directs his spatially probing and texturally explicit style towards some of the iconic viewpoints of the coastline, including Seven... Read more -
Ivon Hitchens & his Lasting Influence
29 Jun - 27 Jul 2019 “But see Hitchens at full pitch and his vision is like the weather, like all the damp vegetable colours of the English countryside and its sedgy places brushed mysteriously together and then realised. It is abstract painting of unmistakable accuracy.” – Unquiet Landscape (p.145 Christopher Neve) The work of British... Read more -
Island
Pippa Blake, Hen Coleman, Charlotte Edsell, John Harmer and Giorgia Siriaco. 25 May - 22 Jun 2019 Voyagers from across the globe, in their perennial search for utopia, have long held a fascination with the elusive ideals of ‘the island’ and all that it embodies. The epitome of paradise, it has been used as an emblem of fertility and sanctuary in music, literature and art throughout the... Read more -
Draw Art Fair
Saatchi Gallery 15 - 19 May 2019 We are delighted to be showing new work by Irene Lees and Hen Coleman at Draw Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London. A comment from Jill Silverman van Coenegrachts Strategic Director, Draw Art Fair London Welcome to the inaugural edition of Draw Art Fair London, where drawing is celebrated as a... Read more -
Irene Lees, Below the Surface
Private view, Saturday 13 April, 2-4pm. 13 Apr - 11 May 2019 Irene Lees - Catalogue PDF Below The Surface is a much anticipated solo exhibition of drawings by British artist Irene Lees. Produced between 2011-2019 the show brings together two new bodies of work, inspired by both Pablo Picasso and Sylvia Plath, alongside selected drawings from the past decade. Irene Lees’... Read more -
Celia Cook, Route
9 Mar - 6 Apr 2019 Celia Cook, Route PDF a way or course taken in getting from a starting point to a destination. From Old French rute‘road’, from Latin rupta (via)‘broken (way)’. Lines dart out of sight like errant children. Shapes stumble into focus before disappearing into the surface. Colours flaunt themselves only to disintegrate.... Read more -
Peter Waldron & Will Nash
Private view, Saturday 2 February, 2-4pm 2 Feb - 2 Mar 2019 Peter Waldron is in his fifth decade as an artist, still learning, unerringly positive and genuinely excited about the revelations to be found in the making and seeing of art. He has created a significant and broad corpus of work, rooted in his personal inquiry for abstract expression. His paintings... Read more -
London Art Fair
Business Design Centre 15 - 20 Jan 2019 LONDON ART FAIR 15-20 January 2019 Please note our stand location has moved, we can now be found on the balcony near the main cafe, Stand G21 We are delighted to be showing work by the following artists; Stephen Farthing RA Jeremy Gardiner Bryan Ingham Alice Kettle Olivia Stanton Peter... Read more -
Present day - Supporting living artists
20 artists 8 Dec 2018 - 26 Jan 2019 Living Treasures … works by artists working in the present day. Open from 8-22 December & 9-26 January As a gallery we strongly believe in supporting living artists, so are delighted to be showing work by 20 artists, all working in the present day, in December and some in January.... Read more -
Morgan Ward, Colour code
Private view, Friday 9th November, 6-8pm 9 Nov - 1 Dec 2018 We are delighted to present Morgan Ward's first solo show, Colour Code. Morgan Ward Colour Code E-Catalogue Morgan Ward is an artist who embodies the spirit of youth and adventure. His work is vivid, questing and clear-eyed. Each piece is luminous, absorbing and energetic. Coursing across and through each canvas,... Read more -
Touch
Julian Brown, Celia Cook, Jane Harris and Mali Morris RA 22 Sep - 27 Oct 2018 Candida Stevens Gallery brings together four inimitable, abstract artists - Julian Brown, Celia Cook, Jane Harris and Mali Morris RA - to look at how contemporary painting finds itself in agreement with this sentiment. Using their 'touch', they harness colour, sound, depth and perspectival looking, to prioritise this idea and express what it is to 'be' in the world. The pleasures in these paintings arise not simply from physical and surface sensation alone but from the signs of the mind thinking. Here these artists' perceptions present us with a specialised version of touch, and touch the foundation for what is seen. Read more -
LAPADA
Art & Antiques Fair, Berkeley Square, London 14 - 19 Sep 2018 We will be showing work by Celia Cook, Alice Kettle, Jeremy Gardiner, Julian Brown, Stephen Farthing and Olivia Stanton, sculpture by Almuth Tebbenhoff. Stand B39. Read more -
Stephen Farthing, The Miracle Paintings at Salisbury Cathedral
23 Aug - 23 Oct 2018 We are delighted to announce that Stephen Farthing RA will be exhibiting The Miracle Paintings at Salisbury Cathedral from 23rd August to 23rd October. Farthing’s masterpieces will go on display in Salisbury Cathedral this Autumn, as part of Royal Academy 250, a celebration of the founding of the Royal Academy... Read more -
Jeremy Gardiner - Geology of Landscape
9 Jun - 7 Jul 2018 We are delighted to be presenting a survey of prints and paintings that spans a 20 year period of Jeremy Gardiner’s career. It has been eight years since Jeremy’s solo presentation of work, ‘A Panoramic View’ at Pallant House Gallery. While he embarks on a study of the Sussex coast... Read more -
Hen Coleman Yonder
28 Apr - 26 May 2018 Hen Coleman’s intricate and highly worked drawings, dripping and dappled in colour, are to feature in our next solo show Yonder. It is a beautiful, reflective body of work that breathes and beats nature’s rhythms. Landscape is central to Hen Coleman's work, with a significant influence being her childhood in... Read more
