Exhibitions

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  Print Fair Pop-Up - Inside the Studio of Ceramicist Linda Styles

  Explore the new body of work by celebrated ceramicist Linda Styles 20 - 27 May 2020 Linda Styles is a celebrated ceramist who lives in Cornwall. Her practice mostly relates to the exploration of the emotive and instinctual. Her main purpose being to use unorthodox expressions of colour, line and space. Although Linda is outwardly immersed in colourful chaos, this freedom of expression is necessarily underpinned... Read more

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  Print Fair Pop-Up - Ramiro Fernandez Saus

  Explore the Limited Edition Prints, Watercolours and the Special and Standard Edition Books by Ramiro Fernandez Saus 19 - 23 May 2020 In Autumn 2019 Ramiro Fernandez Saus and Long & Ryle Press published 'Ramiro Fernadnez Saus: Prospecting the Inner Isles', written by art critic Andrew Lambirth. A Special Limited Edition book which follows a compliation of works and ideas from the last twenty years of Ramiro's practise. The arc of Saus’... Read more

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  Print Fair Pop-Up - David Wightman

  David Wightman 11 - 14 May 2020 Trek through the mountain scapes of David Wightman's prints, including the new edition of 'Arcadia v' and 'Ariadne'. Each of Wightman’s prints refers to the tradition of landscape painting. He uses a variety of sources as inspiration – from postcards to classical landscape paintings. The result is a collection of... Read more

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  Print Fair Pop-Up - Wood Engravers Tower Revealed

  Explore the Details of 'Wood Engravers Tower' alongside selected Unique Prints from 'A Greek Journey' by Anne Desmet 6 - 9 May 2020 An insight into Royal Academcian print maker Anne Desmet's new print 'Wood Engravers Tower' alongside other prints. Click the link to view Anne's Collector's Choice at the LOPF Online Anne Desmet Collector's Choice Key to the elements in Anne Desmet’s engraving: Wood Engraver’s Tower The block is boxwood: 30.3 x... Read more

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  Twin Peaks

  Nick Archer - an Online Exhibition 1 - 28 Apr 2020 Long & Ryle in collaboration with Private Public Gallery in Jersey presents Nick Archer's latest exhibition. In a similar manner Nick Archer uses film and photography as source material for his sublime landscapes which eloquently reflect memory and imagination, mysterious frozen moments of revelation and a sense of dislocation and... Read more

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  Ramiro Fernandez Saus: Prospecting the Inner Isles

  A Retrospective Exhibition 4 Dec 2019 - 29 Feb 2020 The arc of Saus’ painting has encompassed much over the years. Ramiro takes his viewers on adventures and we travel the world in his imaginary sailing boats and steam ships. We visit distant lands, encounter exotic romance and step into the secrets rooms of his imagination. When talking about his... Read more

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  Anne Desmet RA: A Greek Journey

  Book Launch and Accompanying Exhibition 20 - 27 Nov 2019 Book launch and exhibition of prints, collages and paintings surrounding exploration of Greece. Read more

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  The Studio

  John Monks 16 Oct - 15 Nov 2019 The Studio explores artists relationship to and with a creative space. The range of Monks’ painterly process – pouring the paint, glazing the surface in layers and scraping with a palette knife – allows him to weave and layer surfaces, and in doing so, he imbues his subjects with a narrative, implying atmosphere, life and change. Read more

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  Beautiful Abandonment

  Nick Archer 12 Jun - 30 Aug 2019 Nick Archer’s new landscape paintings focus on our relationship with the natural world and its place in our imagination. His paintings present the in-between of a place both known and imagined. Exhibition of new paintings 2019. Read more

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  Folk Tales, Forests and the Sea

  Su Blackwell 15 Nov 2018 - 21 Feb 2019 Book cut sculptures by award winning artist Su Blackwell based on fairy tales. Read more

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  Towards the Light

  Anne Desmet 11 Oct - 9 Nov 2018 A series of wood cut, lino and mixed media architectural prints by Royal Academy artists Anne Desmet. Read more

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  Unseen Seen

  Curated by Melanie Miller 28 Jun - 4 Oct 2018 Group show Read more

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  Dreamed House

  Kate Montgomery 24 May - 22 Jun 2018 ‘Dreamed House’ is Kate Montgomery’s first solo exhibition at Long & Ryle. Montgomery’s interest in textiles, and her studies in Islamic pattern inform the texture and aesthetic of her painting, where patterns and textiles are very much part of the story. She uses geometric principles and Victorian designs to weave... Read more

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  Sweet Passions

  Ramiro Fernandez Saus 9 Nov - 16 Dec 2017 Exhibition of oil paintings by Catalan artist Ramiro Fernandez Saus Read more

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  The Journey

  Nick Archer 5 Oct - 1 Nov 2017 Exhibition of paintings by Nick Archer Read more

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  John Monks at 60 Threadneedle Street

  John Monks 27 Sep 2017 - 11 Jan 2018 Exhibition of oil paintings by John Monks Read more

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  Art on a Ukulele

  Art on a Postcard and Long & Ryle 19 - 21 Sep 2017 Exhibition of collaborating artists for charity including paintings Read more

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  Mirror Image

  John Monks 7 Jun - 28 Jul 2017 Exhibition of oil paintings by John Monks Read more

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  Fragments

  Henrietta Hoyer Millar 11 May - 2 Jun 2017 Exhibition of paintings by Henrietta Hoyer Millar Read more

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  Time, Memory and Landscape

  Nick Archer, Sophie Benson, Matthias Meyer, Jenny Pockley, Ruth Stage and David Wightman 22 Mar - 28 Apr 2017 Mixed exhibition of landscape paintings Read more

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  Under Changing Skies

  Anne Desmet at The Holborn Museum, Bath 11 Mar - 2 Jun 2017 Exhibition of prints by Anne Desmet Read more

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  Visions & Revisions

  Brian Sayers 23 Feb - 17 Mar 2017 Exhibition of paintings by Brian Sayers Read more

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  Temporarily Accessioned: Freud's Coat Revisited

  Paul Coldwell at Freud Museum London 22 Feb - 7 May 2017 The Freud Museum London presents Temporarily Accessioned: Freud’s Coat Revisited by the artist and researcher Paul Coldwell. This new exhibition is an opportunity to present new work by the artist, twenty years after first exhibiting at the museum in an exhibition entitled Freud’s Coat. The new exhibition not only responds... Read more

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  Empire

  David Wightman 13 Oct - 19 Nov 2016 Exhibition of paintings and collages by artist David Wightman Read more

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  Beauty is the Garden

  Mixed Exhibition 7 Jul - 9 Sep 2016 Beauty is the Garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently… Can words describe the indescribable? Rumi The show was inspired by the above poem by the 13th century Persian poet Rumi. Selected artists have responded to the theme, which has resulted in a beautiful summer exhibition for Long &... Read more

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  Small Journeys

  Paul Coldwell 20 Apr - 10 Jun 2016 Exhibition of sculptures and paintings by Paul Coldwell Read more

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  The Things We Forget

  Mark Entwisle 3 Mar - 15 Apr 2016 Mark Entwisle’s paintings have a casual and uncomplicated honesty of observation, coupled with an emotional directness. He treats his canvases as the pages of a diary – the subjects are his family and their friends and everyday objects and places. Mark Entwisle has lived in North London since the 90s.... Read more

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  Time Sequences

  Anne Desmet 15 Oct - 11 Dec 2015 Exhibition of prints and collages by Anne Desmet Read more

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  Dwelling

  Su Blackwell 17 Sep - 9 Oct 2015 Exhibition of paper-cut sculptures by Su Blackwell Read more

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  Small Moon

  Jocelyn Clarke 7 May - 3 Sep 2015 Shifting from close-up observation to imagined horizons, Clarke combines the depiction of natural forms with memory and symbolism. “On the coastal path in Cornwall, I noticed a piece of gorse that reminded me of an arm and hand raised to frame a section of sky and sea. Small elements such... Read more

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  Familiar Motives

  Maro Gorky 12 Mar - 24 Apr 2015 Exhibition of paintings by Maro Gorky Read more

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  Natural History

  Melanie Miller 4 Feb - 6 Mar 2015 Exhibition of paintings by Melanie Miller Read more

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  Green Earth

  Daniel Chatto 19 Nov - 19 Dec 2014 Exhibition of paintings by Daniel Chatto Read more

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  Lost in Paradise

  Nick Archer 15 Oct - 14 Nov 2014 Nick Archer’s new paintings are reminiscent of the north European landscape painters such as Pieter Brueghel and Caspar David Friedrich. His painterly process, however, is a very contemporary practice and results in an atmosphere that can be also recognised in 21st century painting and film making. Archer’s painterly process is... Read more

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  Beyond the Book: an Exhibition of Artists who use Books as their Medium

  Co-Curated by Su Blackwell and Saffron Wynne 11 Jun - 17 Jul 2014 Participating book artists include: Ellen Bell, Jonathan Mathew Boyd, Yvette Hawkins, Samantha Y Huang, Alexander Korzer-Robinson, Jeremy May, Davy & Kristin McGuire, Richard Nash and Su Blackwell Read more

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  History

  John Monks at 10 Gresham Street 21 May - 26 Aug 2014 Long and Ryle and VJB Arts are proud to present a new exhibition of recent paintings by John Monks. The show includes a triptych painting titled History II (2013). This work formed the centre piece of Monks’s one-man show, ‘Painting in Layers’, held at the Barber Institute of Fine Art,... Read more

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  All the Leaves are Falling

  Henrietta Hoyer Millar 12 Mar - 11 Apr 2014 Hoyer Millar captures the transient drama of the natural landscape with a light touch. “I wanted the panels to be vibrant and immediate, using bold, energetic mark making to build the layers of paint and bring intensity to the images. Later, I developed these ideas in four large canvases in... Read more

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  Capturing the Brontes: Charlotte Cory's Visitoriana

  Charlotte Cory 5 - 28 Feb 2014 Touring from the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth, and the Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate, Charlotte Cory’s exhibition will begin its final chapter at Long & Ryle. The exhibition is an imaginative and informative exploration of the Bronte story and the history of early photography. As one of the country’s... Read more

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  Shifting Perspective

  Katharine Morling 27 Nov - 19 Dec 2013 Katharine Morling presents an exciting new body of work for her latest solo show with Long & Ryle. Drawing from her own personal narrative, Morling creates captured moments, intricately worked in porcelain. Seemingly familiar objects, such as a box of matches or a suitcase, are transformed into emotive, fragile sketches... Read more

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  After A.D.

  Derrick Guild 17 Oct - 22 Nov 2013 “The notion of Durer’s animal actually being an illusion, and a kind of piecing together of different animals to create such a singularly exquisite and believable painting really sparked my imagination” Guild 2013 Scottish artist Derrick Guild’s forthcoming exhibition entitled ‘After A.D’, is the same title given to a major... Read more

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  A Change in the Weather

  Brian Sayers 18 Sep - 12 Oct 2013 My work has developed from my interest in the still life tradition whereby ordinary, ‘overlooked’ objects are spread out on a table or counter as if ready for inspection or even merely abandoned as junk. As in paintings from previous periods in history, there is a suggestion of symbolism or... Read more

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  Day In Day Out

  John Monks 15 May - 21 Jun 2013 In the documentary on the making of the film ‘Taxi Driver’ the editor, Tom Rolf, explains Scorsese’s habit of lingering on an image for what seems to be an inordinately long length of time. Rolf initially rejected this idea, but then came to realise Scorsese’s purpose. He said “It allowed... Read more

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  Fairtyale

  Natalie Meyjes 13 Mar - 26 Apr 2013 Long and Ryle gallery will be exhibiting a new series of box-sculptures by Natalie Meyjes on the theme of ‘The Fairytale’. Meyjes views the fairy tale as an open door to a world of wonder both imagined and real: “The “once upon a time’, task and reward, test of courage,... Read more

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  Thought Waves

  Helen Napper 20 Feb - 9 Mar 2013 Helen Napper instinctively seeks out waves. She swims in the sea daily and yearns for it when she’s inland, drawn back to its perversity and perpetual motion. Consider the seascapes in this exhibition. A small bay fizzes with frilly white waves on an ultramarine Atlantic Ocean, the sky is cobalt,... Read more

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  Stories from the Enchanted Forest

  Su Blackwell 7 Nov - 22 Dec 2012 This November, Long and Ryle gallery will be exhibiting a new series of fairytale book-cut sculptures by Su Blackwell to coincide with the Thames and Hudson publication of the title ‘The Fairytale Princess: Seven Classic Stories from the Enchanted Forest’. This exhibition will encapsulate the fusion of art and literature... Read more

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  Smeech and Hrain

  Simon Casson 10 Oct 2012 - 3 Nov 2013 The title of the exhibition comes from old Somerset dialect for ‘smoke and rain’. This highlights the way Simon Casson’s work makes reference to history, presenting the Western tradition of figure painting reinterpreted for a contemporary audience. The distinctive layering of paint application is a layering of attitudes – painstaking... Read more

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  The Pond Series

  Geoff Routh 27 Jun - 8 Sep 2012 The abandoned Annie McCall Hospital and its environs in Stockwell, South London, have inspired and consumed the work of Geoff Routh since he and fellow artists transformed the wards into ‘Stockwell Studios’ over twenty five years ago. Today, Geoff Routh’s studio is still there and continues to be the muse... Read more

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  Dreams in the Garden

  Ramiro Fernandez Saus 9 May - 9 Jun 2012 The light in Ramiro Fernandez Saus’s paintings has an extraordinary character. By day, it varies from the pale clarity of an equatorial morning to the glow of languid Mediterranean afternoons; at night, from the spotlights cutting through the darkness at the opera, to a bright moon hanging in the sky.... Read more

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  The Geometry of Nature

  Maro Gorky 23 Feb - 13 Apr 2012 Maro Gorky lives in a landscape where the hills have been shaped into shields of vineyards and olive groves. Like the Byzantine icons and mosaics, where the flat gold background represents infinity so that the figures walk forward and do not recede, Gorky does not see the dimension of her... Read more

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  New Year Group Show

  Mixed Long & Ryle Artists 6 Dec 2011 - 11 Feb 2012 Long and Ryle gallery will be exhibiting a selection of artist’s work for the New Year. Read more

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  Animated Life

  Katharine Morling 2 Nov - 3 Dec 2011 Katharine Morling creates animated scenes with an unusually dynamic appearance for the medium of ceramics. Morling describes these objects as 3 dimensional ‘sketches’ and aims to bring dreamscapes to life by creating physical artefacts. The sculptures work together, producing a tableau of everyday objects and still lives: a table and... Read more

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  Group Show

  Mixed Long & Ryle artists 22 Jul - 19 Oct 2011 Exhibition of mixed artists from Long & Ryle. Read more

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  Art Hamptons

  Sayre Park, Bridgehampton, NY USA 7 - 10 Jul 2011 The Hamptons has a long tradition as a fertile terrain for serious art creation, art collecting and art patronage. Together artists, collectors and curators have reveled in being part of this historically innovative community. Each summer we pay homage to the area’s reputation by staging ArtHamptons. Now in its 4th... Read more

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  Metropolis

  Sarah Stitt 9 Jun - 1 Jul 2011 Sarah Stitt was born in London and educated at St. Martin’s School of Art and City and Guilds. She has painted numerous portraits to commission, including Earl Spencer, Alice Thomas Ellis, Sarah Raphael, Craig Ferguson and Anna Chancellor. Read more

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  I Feel Like Everyone Else, I Just Look Different

  Anastasia Lewis 12 May - 4 Jun 2011 Just over two years ago, Anastasia Lewis started a new body of work to explore her interest in cultural diversity and the acceptance or rejection of difference. She chose the butterfly as an ideal metaphor, which despite its ubiquity remains a beautiful, fragile and mysterious symbol… Read more

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  Interior Castle

  Fran Richardson 10 Mar - 9 Apr 2011 This exhibition of finely rendered charcoal drawings takes the celebrated 1579 book by the mystic St Teresa of Avila as a point of departure to propose a visual contemplation on perception, memory, and the symbolic nature of interior space. Read more

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  Happily Ever After

  Su Blackwell 25 Nov - 17 Dec 2010 As in many recent works Blackwell will be focusing on fairytales, with their haunting, dream-like atmosphere. This exhibition at Long and Ryle, will explore the role of marriage within the fairytale. In many fairy tales, marriage acts as a kind of a closing sequence for the ‘happy ending’, simply because... Read more

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  Snow

  Henrietta Hoyer Millar 14 Oct - 10 Nov 2010 Forty, miniature, gem like panels form a sequence of glimpses into the corners and details of a Perthshire landscape in mid winter. Each panel acts as a fragment of the landscape, celebrating moments taken from a fuller story, like pieces of a jigsaw, they fit together to form the bigger... Read more

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  Moth Boys and Bees

  Melanie Miller 9 - 29 Sep 2010 “The problem which everyday reality poses for painting does not exist for them spiritually, but (so to speak) technically. In its quality of attention, still life possesses a delicate and ambiguous instrument. Its whole project forces the subject, both painter and viewer, to attend closely to the preterit objects in... Read more

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  Off White

  Mark Entwisle 13 May - 12 Jun 2010 Is it possible to care about a tea cup? A discarded newspaper.. somebody’s shoe? Or feel familiarity with objects you’ve never seen before? The un-blinking attention and great affection with which Mark paints suggests an ongoing narrative which intrigues and invites you in. And once in, you arrive, as it... Read more

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  Amour Fou

  Brian Sayers 24 Feb - 30 Mar 2010 Brian Sayers paints objects, laid out on table-tops that occupy the entire pictorial space apart from an occasional top edge that gives way to a dark space beyond. He has been pre-occupied with this subject, almost without exception, since he first exhibited with Long & Ryle in 1991. Read more