Exhibitions

Current

London Art Fair 2021
Online Art Fair 18 - 31 Jan 2021 Long & Ryle has taken part in the London Art Fair for over 20 years and are excited to exhibit the stunning new works by our gallery artists. Artsy Exhibition Read more

Past

Finite Things
Melanie Miller 9 Dec 2020 - 14 Jan 2021 Finite Things The objects of this show are all recognisable: a mushroom, a hand, a clod of dirt, a bird’s nest. But their settings are not. Many of the objects are set on black backgrounds that are impenetrably dense; or, on the other hand, pale surroundings that refuse to suggest... Read more

My Atalanta
David Wightman 3 - 7 Dec 2020 Well known for his imagined landscapes Long & Ryle presents David Wightman’s new show ‘My Atalanta’. A continuation from his successful ‘Empire’ exhibition in 2016, Wightman pushes the intensity of colour and playfulness of composition further in his latest series of paintings and prints. Wightman’s imagined landscapes pay homage to... Read more

Christmas Presentation
26 Nov - 23 Dec 2020 Looking for present inspiration this Christmas? Why not give friends and family beautiful and affordable artworks by the wonderful gallery artists at Long & Ryle. Prints, commissioned portraits, sculptures and paintings. Support contemporary artists by giving someone a present that they will treasure forever. Christmas Presentation Read more

New Print by Catalan Artist Ramiro Fernandez Saus
Available in black & white and hand-coloured 16 Nov - 31 Dec 2020 Ramiro Fernandez Saus has just released from his studio in Sabadell, Spain a stunning new print entitled 'Stargazers' (edition of 35). This enchanting artwork is the perfect gift to give this Christmas. Ramiro collaborates with the celebrated Catalan printmaker Juan Roma whose studio produced prints for Antoni Tàpies, Balthus, Barry... Read more

Anthology
An Group Exhibition in Gallery 16 Sep - 16 Oct 2020 Lockdown for the most of us has been a strange and uncomfortable experience. However, the routine for artists has to some extent has changed very little with hours spent alone in the studio. ‘Anthology’ is a collection of work created during this period, and we are curious to see what... Read more

Anne Desmet's Royal Academy Angels
Anne Desmet Prints 12 Aug - 12 Sep 2020 The angels were rather an intuitive response to the Covid-19 lockdown. Anne had taken the photographs that were her source material back in 2014 in the 'Sensing Spaces' architecture exhibition at the Royal Academy. One exhibit was a tower structure that you could climb until you were eye to eye... Read more

New Watercolour Series by Ramiro Fernandez Saus
For the London Original Print Fair 2020 Online, Ramiro Fernandez Saus released a new series of beautiful watercolours from his studio in Sabadell. In this seemingly playful set of watercolours, which Ramiro describes as "a bit like a diary”, his poetic im 5 - 30 Jun 2020 Read more

Anne Desmet's 'A Greek Journey'
Explore the collection of Desmet’s recent mixed media collages - which capture the light, life and the classical antiquity of Greece. From tiny engraved colonnades collaged onto miniature ceramic bowls and razor shells, to whitewashed buildings rendered i 5 - 30 Jun 2020 Read more

Solace 2020
Melanie Miller Online Exhibition 2 - 30 Jun 2020 “Nature is a Solace, a rhythm a reminder that we are all part of a cycle, it is the source of joy curiosity, contemplation and fear”. That is a quote from the introduction I wrote for my last exhibition with Long and Ryle’ Seen\Unseen” in 2018 and it feels appropriate... Read more

Print Fair Pop Up - Nick Archer
Explore the Works of Nick Archer in an Online Pop Up Show 28 - 31 May 2020 Check out Nick Archer's hand coloured solar plate prints alongside his new series of postcard sized oil on copper paintings. Read more

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

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

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

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

London Original Print Fair Online
Online Exhibition 1 - 31 May 2020 Held at the Royal Academy of Arts, The London Original Print Fair is London’s longest running fair. Although the fair has been postponed this year, Long & Ryle is a part of the LOPF Online. Click the button below to view our stand on the London Original Print Fair Online... Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

John Monks at 60 Threadneedle Street
John Monks 27 Sep 2017 - 11 Jan 2018 Exhibition of oil paintings by John Monks Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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