Artists

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Nicholas Barnham, whose work is characterised by its strong sense of line, studied painting and stone carving at Norwich School of Art and taught for several years at Cambridge School of Art. His subjects are typically boats, trees and the landscapes of East Anglia and the Shetlands. Born in 1939, he died on February 2nd 2021.

Former president of The London Group, Philippa’s career started changing direction around 2009 when she moved away from conceptual art to painting trees and became a founding members of The Arborealists movement. Her work features in our 2021 exhibition, Inspired by trees.

John Bellany, CBE, RA, who died in 2013, is one of Britain’s most original contemporary artists. Raised in a God- fearing fishing community on Scotland’s east coast, his life was raucous, perilous and stormy as the North Sea itself. His work, with its bold primary colours and unsettling marine imagery, is unmistakable. Battered boats, gnarled...

Photo of Venetia by Tara Juno Rowse (detail)

Frederick Donald Blake was a leading light of several artists groups in London in the mid 20th century. Born in Greenock, Scotland in 1908, his family had moved to London when he was a child. He trained at Camberwell School of Art and at fifteen years of age started work as an architectural draughtsman in the interior design business. Early i...

John Bratby was the maverick luminary of the British “kitchen sink” artists during the 1950s and ’60s, credited as the precursor of Pop Art, though Punk Art might be a better description of  his own work. He was born in 1928, died in 1992. Here are excerpts from his obituary in The Independent:

Stella Carr is an active member of The Arborealists, the group of British and French artists whose work focuses on trees. She is a dedicated conservationist with considerable knowledge of the history and botany of trees. Several of her paintings featured in our Inspired by trees exhibition in June 2021.

To celebrate its centenary in 1991 the Chelsea Arts Club, founded by James McNeill Whistler and pals, published a portfolio of 16 silkscreen prints commissioned from some of its most illustrious members.

Francine fled the German invasion of France as a young girl with her parents during World War Two and settled in London in the early 50s. . She is now in her eighties and continues to paint and teach. She is an active member of the Chelsea Arts Club and a Chevalier of the Palmes Academiques, the French order that honours individuals who have ...

Inge Clayton (1942 - 2010) displays an uncompromising eroticism in her work. She came to London in the ’60s to work as an au pair and stayed. It was not long before she embarked on her career as an artist after enrolling on a course at the Camden Art Centre. An admirer of Kurt Schwitters and Oskar Kokoshka, the sensuality of her work is remin...

For many years an acclaimed set and costume for world famous companies, designer Kandis Cook boldly changed careers to become a painter.

Charles Duranty, a poet as well as painter, is best known for his “imagined landscapes”. Born in Romford, Essex and self taught - he claimed that he had been thrown out of his art class at school - he only began painting in earnest when he was in his forties and needed some pictures to decorate the walls of his new home. Over the next 30 yea...

A young British artist painting in classical style. Jack has a studio in London and also teaches at the famous Charles Cecil Studios school in Florence.

“Donald Hamilton Fraser…was one of the most successful and well-regarded young Modernist painters of the immediate postwar generation, his boldly-handled and richly-coloured semi-abstract landscapes and still-lifes establishing him as a promising exponent of the latest Ecole de Paris style….

Reviled but sublime, Eric Gill was one of the most original British artists of the 20th century whose reputation has been obscured by revelations about sexual activities that have little to do with his artistic talent but have provoked shock/horror salivation among the sanctimonious. A fine sculptor and master of line, he also designed the e...

A past president of the Royal Society of Portait Painters, Robin embraces the gamut of genres.

A young artist with a special flair for impressionist landscape

Agnes Hay is celebrated for her experimental art and films in her native Hungary. Her wire drawings are digital photograms, created by projecting light through small figures made of bent wire onto photosensitive paper.

Born in 1955, Nicholas Hely-Hutchinson studied at St. Martins School of Art. Since his first one-man exhibition in 1984 he has exhibited many times in London, Dublin and Hong Kong among others. The works in our gallery are mostly from earlier in his career when he enjoyed travelling in Morocco and Provence.

A witty and stylish artist with a deft affinity for the female figure.

Born David Lee Theyre Elliott in 1903 (we aren’t exactly sure when or why he rearranged his given name) this interesting artist first made his reputation in the 1930s as designer of some classic Art Deco logos such as the Imperial Airways Speedbird (see left) and the Royal Mail’s Air Mail symbol (many more of his designs can be seen<...

One of East Anglia’s best loved artists until his recent sad demise, Geoffrey Lefever’s career - both as an artist and concurrently as an engineer - spans from the 1960s to 2024. During that time his style and subject matter underwent great development.

The London Group was formed in 1913 by artists including Walter Sickert, Jacob Epstein, Wyndham Lewis, David Bomberg and Henri Gaudier Brzeska who were tired of the stuffiness of the Royal Academy of the day and decided to set up an association that would exhibit the work of the up and coming generation. The London Group maintains its collect...

Tim Mara was the leading printmaker of his generation. In the intriguing portrait work illustrated here, all nine images are of the artist himself superimposed over the portrait of a family member, who include the artist’s parents, his three brothers, his wife and his two daughters. The middle image at the top is the only one just of the art...

Born in Murcia, Spain in 1942, Manuel Marin is a controversial figure who dabbled in forgery as well as creating striking works of his own. He trained to be a bullfighter at age 16 before travelling to England, then to the USA, where he developed a love for sculpture, especially the work of Alexander Calder, whose influence can clearly be see...

A Modern British artist who deserves to be better known, Bernard Myers’ work very successfully bridges the abstract/figurative divide in British art of the mid 20th century.

For more information about Britain’s most humorous artist take a look at his Royal Academy web page: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/artist/chris-orr-ra

Eduardo Paolozzi one of the most distinctive and original British artists of the 20th century, his work, sometimes described as Pop Art, embraced painting, sculpture, design, textiles - and even wall mosaics in London’s Tottenham Court Road tube station.

John Pawle’s biography is more like that of Boy’s Own hero than a typical artist. A gifted sportsman who played cricket for Harrow and Cambridge and was a world class rackets player, he fought in destroyers in the Royal Navy, before becoming a stockbroker after the war.  It was only when he reached retirement age that he took up painting in e...

Christopher Pemberton was a pupil of William Coldstream, founder of the Euston Road school of artists, at Camberwell School of Art during the late 1940s and later became a teacher himself as well as a much admired painter in the British tradition.

Born in Edmonton in 1908, Llewellyn began learning his craft from magazines, books and other sources and quickly showed a gift for painting and drawing. After working as a bank clerk for three years, he turned to painting. In 1927 he became a member of the Edmonton Art Club and in 1931 one of the original members of the Alberta Society of Art...

Born in 1940 Jonas Plosky studied at Hornsey College of Art, then made his living as a designer and illustrator while developing his strong talent as a landscape painter. Many of his landscapes feature the fells, dales and upland, especially of North Wales. But it was also the diversity of his work - reflected in the three very different work...

A bold colourist with a strong sense of geometry Dan typically portrays cityscapes where day and night seem to merge and where you can’t be sure if the light is natural or artificial. Though there is hardly a human figure to be seen in these paintings, the colours are warm, and the stark city environment is often suffused with a bold, vivid c...

The society portrait painter whose real love was painting trees.

Adrian Ryan (1920 - 1998) went to Eton as a boy, studied at the Slade and taught at Goldsmith’s College. Much of his painting was done in Suffolk, France and Cornwall; his work was shown at among others the Royal Academy, Redfern gallery and London Group exhibitions.

Melissa Scott-Miller is a portraitist whose favourite subject is a city: London.

Bina Shah observes the impact that humans have on the environment and the traces they leave behind.

Nahem Shoa is a member of The Arborealists, a group of artists with a keen interest in trees, and is also a leading portrait painter, whose work has attracted attention for its large scale formats and bold sense of colour. Watch the video to get a full idea of his boldly original work.

Born in Macclesfield in 1968 David Shrigley is best known for his infuriatingly humorous faux-naif line drawings and posters.  His sculpture titled Really Good, featuring an enormous hand making a thumbs-up gesture, took pride of place on the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square during 2016 - 2018. A recent exploit was to have ...

Arguably the most versatile painter of his generation. Born in 1929, Stan grew up in a working class family in Hull to become Head of Fine Art at Oxford’s Ruskin School, Life President of The London Group, Chairman of the Chelsea Arts Club, a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy, and author of several books about drawing and painting.

Benjamin Sullivan, born in 1977, is best known as a portrait painter. He won the BP Portrait Award in 2017 for “Breech”, a remarkably honest and tender portrait of his wife suckling their baby daughter.  Other notable works include “All Souls Triptych”, a large group portrait of the staff of All Souls college, Oxford, and more recently,  port...

A sample of works in our exhibition The Female Gaze, at Burgh House, Hampstead from June 22nd to July 3rd 2022, including the brochure, which lists all works in the exhibition over three pages.

Sometimes we come across works by artists we cannot identify, maybe because their work is unsigned or a signature is illegible.

Best known for the immortal quote: “Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.”

Jesse Watkins (1899 - 1980) is best known as a sculptor. A delightful Pathe News short film of him at work can be enjoyed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woWX3RtViIU

One of our aims is offer a showplace for the work of  artists who deserve greater recognition. David White is a veteran British artist who perfectly fits this category.  Now in his late seventies, David was an infant when the Luftwaffe was bombing British cities during World War Two. He became a pupil of the Manchester painter Norman Shackloc...

A convenient grouping of all our one-off pieces produced by a wide range of artists, some celebrated, some less well known.

Paul Wuensche is a British artist whose wide-ranging work embraces the human figure, portraits, interiors and London’s urban landscape. He has exhibited at the BP Portrait Awards, The Discerning Eye and the Royal Society of Portrait painters.

Not to be confused with the Irish painter of similar name, Jack Yates was an English painter who lived in London and taught at the Camden Art Centre.