LBF Contemporary

17/08/2026

We’re excited to share what’s ahead 💌

The gallery is now closed for the summer and will reopen on Friday 18 September, 6–8pm, for the opening of Lawrence Perry’s (Lawrence Perry) ‘Careless Rapture’ ⭐️

12/08/2026

Wishing the happiest of birthdays to the wonderful Annice Fell! 💕⭐️ ♌️ Annice Fell

06/08/2026

“Jelly Green’s paintings come from a body of work made in answer to the wildfires eating the world’s forests, and they push right up to the moment the blaze takes hold. ‘Incandescent VI’ (2025) opens the heat from its centre, a molten core of orange and yellow spreading toward the edges as if the canvas were burning in real time. Green has spent years among the rainforests she paints, and the loss is in the handling itself: the paint built so thick and worked so hard that the surface seems at risk from its own subject, holding the fire just long enough for us to see it.”

Read the full text in the link in our bio 🔗

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Jelly Green
Incandescent VI, 2025
Oil on canvas
80 x 100 cm

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On view in ‘𝑳𝑩𝑭 @ 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝑰𝑰𝑰’ in Muskoka, Canada, through 14th September

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Enquiries: [email protected]

04/08/2026

Final week to view ‘London Writes Itself,’ on through 8th August 🌿✨

Ajea Zahid (Ajea Zahid)
‘The Boy in Green,’ 2026
Oil on canvas
70 x 50 cm

30/07/2026

LBF Contemporary is pleased to announce Lawrence Perry’s (Lawrence Perry) second solo exhibition with the gallery, ‘Careless Rapture.’

In this new body of work the artist reflects on the emotional contradiction of nostalgia - the impossibility of fully recapturing the dazzling immediacy of an experience once it had passed, and the lingering desire to try. The title is borrowed from Robert Browning’s Home-Thoughts, from Abroad: “Lest you should think he never could recapture, the first fine careless rapture.” The lines struck Perry not only as an expression of longing, but as a question: is it ever possible to relive the catharsis of something truly new, or are we forever looking back at the last time we remembered it?

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UPCOMING
Lawrence Perry: ‘Careless Rapture’
19 September - 24 October, 2026
Private View: Friday 18 September, 2026
LBF Contemporary, 13 Tottenham Mews, W1T 4AQ

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📸 by Ella Pavlides Ella Pavlides

29/07/2026

25/07/2026

⚡️ Artist spotlights ⚡️

Rose Electra Harris (Rose Electra Harris)
Rose Electra Harris’ painting practice emerges through restless interactions, between control and chaos, impulse and reason, freedom and constraint, the organic and the structured. Moving between figuration and abstraction, her work resists resolution.

David Hanes (𝑫𝑨𝑽𝑰𝑫 𝑯𝑨𝑵𝑬𝑺)
David Hanes’ work begins outdoors, with hand-held sketches made on site—imprints of light, colour, atmosphere, and energy. He carries these sometimes for years, filtering them through distance and time before transforming them in the studio into colour-driven oil paintings.

Dora Lam (Dora Lam)
Lam’s paintings draw on women found in colonial and personal archives. She isolates the face — individuation as refusal of type — extracting each figure from her original photographic context and relocating her within geometric spaces, environments constructed through a diasporic logic: the minimum needed to suggest a place while refusing fixed geography, or time.

Ruowei Liu ()
Born and raised on the grassland, Ruowei brings a nomadic way of sensing into her painting. Through thin layers, wandering contours, and fragile yet persistent forms, Ruowei gives visual structure to experiences that usually remain beneath language: intuition, ancestral memory, bodily sensitivity, and the quiet pressure of unseen forces.

All four artists are featured in ‘London Writes Itself,’ on view through 8 August 🌞

23/07/2026

Currently on view in ‘London Writes Itself’ through 8th August 🪾

David Hanes (𝑫𝑨𝑽𝑰𝑫 𝑯𝑨𝑵𝑬𝑺)
‘Murder,’ 2026
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 cm (Framed)
11 ¾ x 9 ½ in

David Hanes
‘Seized In The Woods,’ 2026
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 cm (Framed)
11 ¾ x 9 ½ in

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Enquiries: [email protected]

21/07/2026

⚡️ Artists spotlights ⚡️

Ajea Zahid ()
Ajea Zahid is a visual artist from Lahore Pakistan, based in London, UK. Her interests lie in the intimacy of the human condition. Zahid works from observations and memory to construct figures that sit somewhere between the deeply familiar and the unknowable.

Rhiannon Salisbury ()
Rhiannon Rebecca Salisbury is a British painter working across canvas and Welsh slate. Her practice explores the meeting points between body, landscape, memory and myth, treating painting as a threshold surface where material and imagined worlds can overlap.

Victor Šcheibler ()
Victor Šcheibler is a German painter based in London whose practice explores painting as a way of encountering presence. Working between abstraction and representation, his paintings draw on memory, perception, and imagination to create dreamlike spaces where forms emerge, dissolve, and resist fixed interpretation.

Guangyu Zhang ()
Guangyu Zhang’s practice reflects a search for sincerity within abstraction. His paintings operate as sites of negotiation between inner and outer worlds, where gesture, materiality, and colour hold tensions between presence and absence, intimacy and restraint.

All four artists are featured in our group exhibition, ‘London Writes Itself,’ currently on view through 8 August ❣️