Paper Romance
While others may get cards this Valentines, we're receiving dozens of drawings, sketches and paintings for our Works on Paper exhbition this April. We couldn't be happier!
News
Kate Hunt
After a visit to Kate Hunt's beautiful studio, we can confirm that our next exhibition in March will be of her work. We're curating an reflective collection of her pieces that include some extremely unusual pieces... you'll see what we mean!
cheers!
Thanks to everyone who came and made our 30th Anniversary exhibition party so fun! Here's to the next 30...
We're turning 30
We're making preparations for our party on the 24th of January to celebrate the gallery's 30th birthday. With new scultpors including Jeremy Schrecker and an exceptional collection of paintings, all that's left to do is make the champagne cocktails!
New year, new... sculptors!
We are priviledged to exhibit two very exciting sculptors in our New Year show - Pablo Atchugarry and Lionel Smit. Atchugarry is world famous for his technically masterful abstract pieces in which the thinly sculpted marble glows, whilst Smit's larger than life bronze eroding masks are making him a rising star. We can't wait to see what you think.
Congratulations!
It's been quite a year for Louise Balaam, who has just been elected a member of the New English Art Club, as well as a member of the Royal West of England Academy earlier this year.
Arthur Neal
The gallery is looking particularly festive at the moment - bursting with over forty gloriously rich oils by Arthur Neal. If you haven't yet, do come and enjoy this sumptuous exhibition in the run up to Christmas.
Bealing in Bloom
Catch the final few days of Nicola Bealing's boisterous exhibition. It's been called 'playful', 'dark', 'eerie', 'beautifully painted', 'superb' and 'intensly charismatic' and that's just in one review - make your own mind up before it closes this Saturday!
Helen Booth lights up Conwy Castle
Helen Booth exhibited her first light work, The Jackdaw, at blinc, 'a digital multimedia art extravaganza', attracting over 10,000 veiwers this October. A meditative piece that was a definitive departure from her painting practice, the monochromatic images of Conwy’s resident birds represented the irony of what the 13th century castle once was and what it’s now become.
Nicola Bealing Exhibition now open
Thanks to everyone who made Nicola Bealing's Private View last night so enjoyable, especially those who complimented us on our canapés! If you weren’t able to come last night the exhibition runs till 29th of November so please do come ...
Janette Kerr President of the RWA
A huge congratulations to Janette Kerr, who has just been elected as the President of the RWA. 'I feel very positive about the RWA and its future', she said. 'I’m really proud to have become the President and to be able to be part of its development at this stage in its history. However as an artist I have a strong commitment to my own artistic practice. I am passionate about continuing to extend this, and keen to engage in dialogue regarding contemporary art.'
We are delighted to have just received six new sublime paintings of Janette's painted off the coast of the Shetland islands.
Briony Anderson
Hailed as 'the new darling of Modern Art' by Quintessentially, Briony Anderson has just won the RSA Guthrie Award for painting by the Royal Scottish Academy. We're very excited to be receiving new paintings by her for our New Year exhibition in 2012.
Sargy's insight
In a thought-provoking programme about how losing his wife and his sight affected Monet's last years, specifically his Water Lilies series, Sargy Mann talks about how he has continued to paint with cataracts and now, eventually, blind.
Broadcast Tues 27 Sept at 11.30am on BBC Radio 4. You can listen to it now here.
Art in Fashion
Timur D'Vatz's diptych, 'The Huntsmen' provided a magical setting for Corrie Nielson's show for London Fashion Week, perfectly enhancing the history-soaked, yet modern collection.
See the results here.
Coming Soon
Summer may be on its way out, but we thought we’d offer you a taste of what to look forward to in Nicola Bealing’s delightfully sumptuous exhibition later this year. Watch this space.
PORT asks Sargy how he learnt to see differently
Our very own Sargy Mann is featured in the third issue of global quarterly men’s magazine PORT. Based in London, the publication is self-styled as 'merging style with thoughtful, intelligent content.' We don't disagree. In the article Sargy describes the loss of his sight has had on his paintings: 'I was seeing differently, so I had to keep rediscovering what the world looked like and how to engage with it. Actually, I liked this because the great thing for an artist is not to repeat yourself.'
Read the article in full here.
The Pacific Collection
Maria Luisa Hernandez's exhibition of breathtaking paintings from the coast of Santiago opens tonight.
The paintings have already created a buzz. 'It's as if space itself has sneaked into the room', enthused The Notebook in their article. After a decade of living and painting in London, Maria returned to Chile and with this collection has captured the metamorphosis of the ocean, the power of the Andes, the salt, sand and oxygen of the sublime coastline. Join us for some Chilean fizz and canapes to celebrate.
Breaking News
CNN International discussed the benefits of investing in contemporary art this August, here with us in the gallery. It turns out you can bank on us!
Read all about it
You may have seen a review of our Summer Exhibition in The Notebook, a magazine steering Londoner's around what's hot in Kensington and Chelsea. The paintings in the exhibition were praised by David Constable as 'rich with decoration and inherently sensual... They draw you in and ask to be considered, studied, and questioned'.
The Summer Exhibition
A big thanks to everyone who came to our Private View and opened our Summer Exhibition with a bang! It's on until the beginning of September so if you haven't yet, come and see what we think is one of our best shows yet.
BIIDA Summer Party
We are delighted to have a number of paintings by Philip Mount and Anthony Bryant on show at the British Institute of Interior Design's Summer Party, which is hosted by Forza Projects in Great Portland Street. The paintings are still on show so do see them if you get the chance.
To celebrate...
our Summer Exhibition, we are throwing an indulgent Private View. Although not quite Titian's Bacchanalian gathering referenced here by Elise Ansel, we are celebrating with cocktails and canapes! We hope that many friends of the gallery, clients and artists will be able to join us next Tuesday 5th July from 6-9pm.
New in the gallery
After Brian Ballard's vivid exhbiton of still-lifes, landscapes and nudes, which evoked the simmering heat of an Irish summer, the gallery has been transformed into the windswept highlands of Scotland with Louise Balaam's highly atmospheric impressions of the wild landscape surrounding Skye. We can positively smell the heather.
Emma Ferguson
Exhibiting with us, and in indeed in the UK for the first time, is Spanish artist Emma Ferguson, who has won a number of prestigious awards for her exquisite paintings. Of her work she says, 'I aim to achieve a balance of tensions between positive and negative space, to express form through an economy of line, to expand the properties of various materials, and to explore the properties (or absence of) color.' Both Elise and Emma's paitings will be exhibited in our Summer Exhibition.
Elise Ansel
We are delighted to welcome Elise Ansel to the gallery. Currently lecturing at Brown University and Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, Elise has exhibited all over the USA but this is the first time that her striking oil-paintings will be exhibited in the UK. Often based upon Old Master paintings, the visual references in her canvases are abstracted until they become primarily sensual.
Hampshire Exhibition
A big thank you to all of you helped 'curate' our Hampshire exhibition as well as everyone who came along over the weekend. The show was a great success - we hope to see you all again next year!
Curated by You?
We'd like to know you what you want to see in our Hampshire exhibition this weekend. Search our website and let us know your favourite artists or paintings and we'll include them in the show!
Interior Projects
Cadogan Contemporary have a number of paintings in various exciting projects with prestigious interior designers such as Helen Green. See for yourself on our Interiors page.
Introducing...
Diane Carl and Hilary Elmes, two very different artists from America and Ireland. Keep an eye out for their stunning abstract paintings in our Spring exhibition this April.
New Artists
We are delighted be able to introduce three new artsists this Spring... the first of which is Gabriele Cappelli, an exceptional abstract painter with collections throughout Europe.
Louise Balaam elected RWA member
Congratulations to Louise Balaam who was recently elected to become a member of the RWA.
Happy New Year
Despite concerns about the economy in 2010, we had a record-breaking year, with some wonderful exhibitions and some exciting interior design projects. We have much to look forward to in 2011 with some very strong exhibitions planned and a number of new artists.
Abstraction
Our first exhibition of 2011 is Abstraction - a selection of non-figurative works by 13 leading artists which introduce a number of new and compelling names for the gallery.
Sargy Mann
For us, one of the highlights of 2010 was the Sargy Mann exhibition in October. Sargy is one of the most astonishingly original artists in Britain today and his recent paintings are all the more remarkable as Sargy is now completely blind. Daniel Day-Lewis commented on the exhibiton, "The gorgeously sensual works of his new exhibition are edible..I [am] awoken by him to wonder at his discoveries". Sargy's work continues to be much admired and collected - you will be able to see more of his paintings on the website very soon.