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A cache of more than 40 watercolours featuring Chiswick, Richmond, Wimbledon and Kew by local artist Heather Jenkins who died last year has been discovered by her daughters. They don’t want to part with the paintings so we have created an online exhibition here

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Chiswick Calendar, our local newsletter, is organising an exhibition of paintings and photographs by local artists at the Clayton Hotel on Chiswick High Road W4 5RY until April 20th. A free show with a diverse range of talent on display.

Harry’s framing expertise in the Sunday Times Style magazine

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Poet and painter with an eye for East Anglian landscapes

A Mel Calman cartoon from Stan Smith’s estate. This work is for sale for £100.

Five female artists explore the human body

Featuring a beautiful and diverse assembly of paintings by that dedicated group of artists who call themselves the Arborealists, Inspired by trees ran from June 2nd till June 13th 2021 at Burgh House in Hampstead. Many of the works - and more by the featured artists - can still be viewed online here.

Blissful domestic moments, relaxed and informal, between waking and breakfast at the start of the day, captured by Stan Smith (1927-2001) Click here to see the online exhibition.

We have just retrieved more than a dozen of Stan Smith’s lively watercolours and sketches of English country churches, from Saxon to Victorian, which make John Piper’s work look rather dull and boring in comparison. We have included them in an online exhibition together with some churches painted by three other leading lights of the gallery. Click here to see the show

Charles Duranty (1919-2006) was a poet who worked for a publisher, a job that he sometimes found a bit boring. So he set up an easel in his office and painted what he called “imagined landscapes”, inspired by the East Anglian countryside where he had worked as a land boy during WW2.

His landscapes are typically open countryside populated with tiny figures and steam engines. Many of the titles are quite wonderful. Scroll down or go straight to his page for more details

We are currently cleaning and framing portraits from David Rolt’s personal studio collection that we acquired from his son a few years ago. About time too, I hear you say!

Stan Smith’s objects of desire: are they erotica - or just plain cheeky?

A work by the ever-controversial “kitchen sink” artist John Bratby presented us with a challenge. There were paintings on both sides of the canvas. So how could we show them to best advantage?

Some months ago the Cambridge academic Professor Mary Beard presented a BBC television series titled The Shock of the Nude, in which she suggested that paintings by men of the female nude were all too often “soft porn for the elite”. Is she right or wrong?

Artists who love trees, a new exhibition curated by Robert Eagle that was due to open at Burgh House, Hampstead in June last year, had to be transferred online. Now that lockdown is ending, a new exhibition - Inspired by trees- will be opening on June 1st 2021. Meanwhile, to get an idea of the great art that awaits you, do take a look at our 2020 video and catalogue featuring the artists and their work.

Artist Luke Edward Hall’s recent article on framing for the Financial Times focused on the frames Harry recently made for Luke Edward’s major exhibition in Sweden.