Exhibitions

Nicholas Hely Hutchinson

Recent Paintings - Cornwall, Dorset & Suffolk 30 Nov - 20 Dec 2023 John Martin Gallery, London This is the gallery's first exhibition by the painter Nicholas Hely Hutchinson with a show of recent work made on trips around the West country and East Anglia. Hely Hutchinson is fascinated by windswept coastlines and open spaces, giving him the freedom as a painter to scrutinise the effects of light with remarkable clarity. Often accompanied by his two lurchers, Hely Hutchinson's paintings sparkle with his delight in the natural world and the joy of being outdoors. Read more

John Caple

The Woodman and The Nightingale 2 - 24 Nov 2023 'My paintings in many ways describe an internal world, a world which is best approached in quiet and still moments'. Taking its title from a poem by Shelley, The Woodman and the Nightingale is John Caple’s extraordinary hymn to the beauty of the ancient wilderness. Led by a nightingale, the... Read more

Francis Hamel

Thirty Gardens 12 - 27 Oct 2023 'Gardens are stepping stones between interiors and landscape' From Levens Hall in winter to Great Dixter and the Trap Ground Allotments in summer, Francis Hamel’s new exhibition, Thirty Gardens , is the result of an eighteen-month painting odyssey taking the artist to some of the country’s most beautiful locations. Painting... Read more

Joanna Logue

Recent Paintings 12 Sep - 6 Oct 2023 'my departure point is inspired by a personal and particular place, my hope is that the work transcends the specific and evokes a universal landscape. This is precisely what the Maine landscape stirs in me. It seems somehow timeless, symbolizing an archetypal wilderness.' John Martin Gallery is delighted to present... Read more

Greg Becker

Recent Landscapes at Spirit Studios, Suffolk 25 Aug - 16 Sep 2023 'I try to fuse this longing for an imaginary forgotten era with images of my daily experiences, walking in London parks and streets and the surrounding countryside, views that often have no reference to contemporary life'. Greg Becker's work evokes the tranquility of open spaces, recalled from everyday experiences walking... Read more

Makiko Nakamura

Paintings from Ireland - Spirit Studios Suffolk 25 Aug - 16 Sep 2023 A fascination with the work of Samuel Beckett took Makiko Nakamura to Ireland in 1999 where she lived for the next fourteen years. Her time in Dublin was a period she regards as her happiest as well as the most important in the development of her painting and when she... Read more

Paintings & Works on Paper 1968 - 2022

Leon Morrocco at Spirit Studios Suffolk 21 Jul - 16 Sep 2023 At last summer’s Edinburgh Festival the Royal Scottish Academy held a retrospective to celebrate Leon Morrocco’s 80th birthday which attracted over 60,000 visitors. With nearly 150 works from six decades, it was an exhibition full of surprises and highlighted the artist’s limitless appetite for new experiences and challenges. In this... Read more

Walk With Me

Anne Magill at John Martin Gallery, Mayfair 21 Jun - 28 Jul 2023 Read more

Sun & Moon

A Group Exhibition at Spirit Studios Suffolk 3 Jun - 15 Jul 2023 An exhibition about the extraordinary dramatic power of sunlight and moonlight. For artists, these can be the most fleeting and transformational of encounters, momentary, magical alignments forever fixed within a painting. Featuring work by Melita Denaro, Heidrun Rathgeb, Paul Simonon, Polly Townsend, Andrew Gifford, John Caple, Eugenie Vronskaya, Barry McGlashan,... Read more

A Bestiary: Sculptures 1994 - 2023

Olivia Musgrave at Spirit Studios Suffolk 3 Jun - 15 Jul 2023 The bond between humans and animals has been a continuous theme in the work of Olivia Musgrave for the last three decades. At its heart lies the artist’s fascination with the nature of that relationship, of what it means to be tamed or untamed, as well as those transformations between... Read more

The Grammar of Clouds

Martin Finnin 26 Apr - 26 May 2023 Martin Finnin's new exhibition, The Grammar of Clouds, brings together paintings from the last two years alongside four sculptures begun in 2021 and recently completed. Over the last twenty years, Finnin has evolved a highly distinctive approach to abstraction in which forms exist in their own space as if floating... Read more

The Tender Sky

Richard Cartwright 15 Mar - 6 Apr 2023 An Exhibition Preview can be found on our Viewing Room. All Enquiries please email tara@jmlondon.com or call 0207 499 1314 Read more

Neale Howells

8 Feb - 3 Mar 2023 The work is not graffiti because it never appears to be a single person’s message. It is the accumulation of graffiti: layers of messages jostling for space, words that have been scratched out and tiny pencil doodles filling the gaps. Sometimes a huge aerosol figure or a sprayed tag will... Read more

Hinterland

17 - 29 Jan 2023 John Martin Gallery is pleased to present ‘Hinterland’ an exhibition that brings together the work of 17 contemporary painters: Radu Baies, Tim Braden, Hannah Brown, Martin Gale, Martin Greenland, Jan Hisek, Endre Kis, Mario Lobedan, Joanna Logue, Barry McGlashan, Philip Maltman, Bogdan Mihai Radu, David Rae, Serban Savu, Mircea Teleaga,... Read more