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Beaux Arts London Beaux Arts London, Kew Gardens. By appointment only Mon - Fri 11 - 5pm Beaux Arts also represents the Estates of Terry Frost, Elisabeth Frink and others.

Beaux Arts has developed a reputation for exhibiting carefully selected Modern British and innovative, contemporary painters and sculptors. The gallery's focus is evenly divided between nurturing talent among the current generation of emerging artists - selected for their original practice as much as the aesthetic qualities of their work - and showing the work of established artists such as John Bellany, Lynn Chadwick, Patrick Heron, Roger Hilton, John Hoyland, Peter Lanyon and John Piper. Directors Reg and Patricia Singh opened their first gallery in St Ives in 1971 representing work by the St Ives School, before opening Beaux Arts Bath in 1979. Some of these earlier artists' work now forms the core of the gallery's substantial inventory of Modern British art.

‘Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.’ Henry MooreArtwork featured: Henry Moore, Reclining figure, 1940 Terraco...
24/08/2024

‘Art is to make our lives richer and fuller.’

Henry Moore

Artwork featured: Henry Moore, Reclining figure, 1940 Terracotta, on a wooden base, Unique; 3.6 in. (9.1 cm.) wide, excluding base.

SUMMER EXHIBITION at Beaux Arts London: 7 August – 13 September 2024

Mon - Sat By Appointment. �For more information, please email us at: [email protected] or call 07917 405 747

‘Leaman retained this bulbous mound of cumulonimbus, fluffy yet somehow ominous like the discharge from a volcano, in hi...
20/06/2024

‘Leaman retained this bulbous mound of cumulonimbus, fluffy yet somehow ominous like the discharge from a volcano, in his memory. But he did not foresee what was going to happen to it. He had no idea there was going to be a figure ‘suspended in mid-air in front of it’, Nor did Leaman foresee that this floating man would be holding a forest.

The result was the painting entitled Albedo.’

Martin Gayford, Jonathan Leaman catalogue 2024

Jonathan Leaman’s new solo exhibition is a culmination of seven years’ work, each executed with outstanding skill and technique, discipline and attention to detail.

His work can be found in public collections including The Tate Museum, London and Tel Aviv Museum, Israel as well as private collections in Belgium, Ireland, Mexico, Switzerland and the UK.

Artwork featured: Jonathan Leaman, Albedo, 2020 - 2023, Oil on Canvas, 119.5 x 94 cm (47 x 37 inches)

Two detailed shots from Albedo.

Catalogue and Price list is available on request
Exhibition Dates: 11 May - 22 July 2024
Mon - Sat By Appointment. �
For more information, please email us at: [email protected]�0r call 07917 405 747

‘I saw that cloud when I was walking the dog’, Jonathan Leaman recalls, ‘And I held it in my head for five years’. This ...
20/06/2024

‘I saw that cloud when I was walking the dog’, Jonathan Leaman recalls, ‘And I held it in my head for five years’. This in itself was quite a feat, how many of us ever remember what a cloud looks like for any period of time at all?’

Martin Gayford, Jonathan Leaman catalogue 2024

Jonathan Leaman’s new solo exhibition is a culmination of seven years’ work, each executed with outstanding skill and technique, discipline and attention to detail.

His work can be found in public collections including The Tate Museum, London and Tel Aviv Museum, Israel as well as private collections in Belgium, Ireland, Mexico, Switzerland and the UK.

Artwork featured: Jonathan Leaman, The Amends, 2020 - 2023, Oil on Canvas, 146 x 176.5 cm (57.5 x 69.5 inches)

Two detailed shots from The Amends.

Catalogue and Price list is available on request
Exhibition Dates: 11 May - 22 July 2024
Mon - Sat By Appointment. �
For more information, please email us at: [email protected]�0r call 07917 405 747

Elisabeth Frink: A Celebration‘I did a larger than life-size figure of Judas, not through a commission but for myself - ...
24/02/2024

Elisabeth Frink: A Celebration

‘I did a larger than life-size figure of Judas, not through a commission but for myself - I felt impelled to make it. The idea for the figure of Judas had absorbed me for some time as a formal, figurative embodiment of the idea of betrayal, with its inherent formal problem of how this could be expressed without obvious histrionics.’

Elisabeth Frink

Artwork featured: Dame Elisabeth Frink, Judas, 1963, Bronze, A/C – Edition of 3, FCR126, H: 190.5 x W: 87 cm (75 x 34 inches) and detail/ Back of Judas.

Price list is available on request
Exhibition: 21 February - 10 May 2024
By Appointment: Monday - Friday 11-5pm

For more information, please email us at: [email protected]

0r call 07917 405 747

Elisabeth Frink: A Celebration‘I did a larger than life-size figure of Judas, not through a commission but for myself - ...
24/02/2024

Elisabeth Frink: A Celebration

‘I did a larger than life-size figure of Judas, not through a commission but for myself - I felt impelled to make it. In every case, I have chose the form for the commission and have rarely been constrained by any other considerations. The idea for the figure of Judas had absorbed me for some time as a formal, figurative embodiment of the idea of betrayal, with its inherent formal problem of how this could be expressed without obvious histrionics.’

Elisabeth Frink

Artwork featured: Dame Elisabeth Frink, Judas, 1963, Bronze, A/C – Edition of 3, FCR126, H: 190.5 x W: 87 cm (75 x 34 inches) and detail.

Price list is available on request.

For more information, please email us at: [email protected]
0r call 07917 405 747

The Rutting Hog from ancient Ireland
Who found favour with the ‘shining one’ King Nuadha, and saved himself from the ‘no...
19/01/2024

The Rutting Hog from ancient Ireland
Who found favour with the ‘shining one’ King Nuadha, and saved himself from the ‘nose tax’ (having his snout chopped off) by teaching the ancient Danu about farming, soils and rutting. 
 
‘I come from a farming background, so animals have always been a source of inspiration. They possess a sense of timelessness, unaffected by changing fashions. They’ve appeared in art from the earliest cave paintings – I like to think I’m continuing this tradition.’
Anthony Scott

Featured: Anthony Scott, Bres, 2021, Bronze, 23.5 x 36 x 10 inches (60 x 92 x 26 cm)

Photo of Anthony Scott
Preliminary Sketch of Anthony Scott Bres

Please email: [email protected] if you would like any further information on the artists featured in this exhibition or a list of available works.

Open 11am - 5pm Monday - Friday / By appointment

The UNESCO world heritage site, The Ishtar Gate is one of the main gates surrounding the inner city of Babylon, capital ...
12/01/2024

The UNESCO world heritage site, The Ishtar Gate is one of the main gates surrounding the inner city of Babylon, capital of the ancient Mesopotamian kingdom of Babylonia (located within the modern day Iraq). It was the largest and most elaborate of the city’s gateways. 

King Nebuchadnezzar II reigned 604–562 BC. He ordered the construction of the gate and dedicated it to the Babylonian goddess Ishtar, the goddess of love, war and is also seen as the planet Venus, the morning and evening star. The gate itself depicted only gods and goddesses.

The Ishtar Gate captured Patrick due to its architectural magnificence and geometric lines. Hughes’ original painted reliefs are concerned with optical and visual illusions and the the science of perception. 

‘I give the looker and the mover their share in getting the art to tell the story, they get the experience of relative motion, I let the viewer pull the carpet from under their own feet. The pictures are not obviously poetic but apparently prosaic now, places, rooms and buildings, although the why involves us physically, neurologically, emotionally, imaginatively, in creating an original experience tailored to our own selves.’

Air to Breathe and a Dance to Life: Murray McDonald Reviews and Interviews Hughes
The Newest Perspective, 2023

Artwork featured: Patrick Hughes, The Ishtar Gate, 2023, Oil on Board Construction, 67.1 x 80.6 x 23 cm (26.4 x 31 x 9 inches)

Photo of Patrick Hughes in Studio
Detail of The Ishtar Gate
Photo of excavation site in Babylon Of Ishtar Gate

Please email: [email protected] if you would like any further information on the artists featured in this exhibition or a list of available works.

Open 11am - 5pm Monday - Friday / By appointment

‘The majestic Irish wolfhound known as Cu Faoil, was famed in history and mythology as one of the largest and strongest ...
18/12/2023

‘The majestic Irish wolfhound known as Cu Faoil, was famed in history and mythology as one of the largest and strongest breeds in the world. The Irish hound was held in such high regard that only a king, chiefs and nobleman were allowed to own them. They were used to protect property and livestock and the ferocious in battle.
 
The mighty war chief Finn Mac Cumhaill owned more than 500. Finn Mac Cumhaill’s favourite was Conbec. He could pull down warriors from horseback, could head off, hunt down and bring back a giant elk, a stag, or a wild boar by himself. It was said of Conbec that as long as there was deer in Ireland, he will get provision for the Feena (tribe of young warriors) every night. He was the only Irish wolfhound fast enough to run down a wolf and strong enough after to kill it. Hence his title, mightiest of the Irish wolfhounds.’
 
Anthony Scott

Artwork featured: Anthony Scott, Conbec
2023, Bronze, Edition of 6, 49 x 34.5 x 33.5 inches (125 x 88 x 85 cm)

Please email: [email protected] if you would like any further information on the artists featured in this exhibition or a list of available works.

Open 11am - 5pm Monday - Friday / By appointment

A SPLASH OF COLOUR Patrick Hughes was born in Birmingham, England in October 1939. His first exhibition was in 1961 and ...
08/12/2023

A SPLASH OF COLOUR

Patrick Hughes was born in Birmingham, England in October 1939. His first exhibition was in 1961 and his first exhibition with
Beaux Arts London (formally Wills Lane Gallery in St Ives) was in 1976.

We are excited to showcase a selection of carefully chosen works that highlight his most famously explored themes. Hughes' original painted reliefs are concerned with optical and visual illusions and the science of perception.

'Hughes first series was the rainbows... The rainbows - oxymoronic, as Hughes calls them - produced an endless flow of visual ideas. A rainbow is a symbol of hope, only ever existing optically (it is water, air  and light), an illusion of an object - a kind of insubstantial painting in itself.'

The Logic of the Paradox: The Early Work of Patrick Hughes by Dawn Ades
The Newest Perspective, 2023

Featured: Patrick Hughes, A Splash of Colour, 2011, Oil on Canvas,
51 x 77 cm (20 x 30.3 inches)

Photo of Patrick Hughes

Detail of Splash of Colour

Please email: [email protected] if you would like any further information on the artists featured in this exhibition or a list of available works.

Open 11am - 5pm Monday - Friday / By appointment

'Related to this dialogue between the specific and the general is the powerful attention given to pose, which is crucial...
24/11/2023

'Related to this dialogue between the specific and the general is the powerful attention given to pose, which is crucial to the atmosphere of the works. Body language is everything here. Figures scurry across the picture plane on the way to closing deals, or half turn in response to a comment, or swing a briefcase nonchalantly, or front up to us cockily, or wedge their hands in their pockets. The depiction of casualness has an exactitude to it and is key to the narrative of the works.'

Paul Greenhalgh

Featured:
Ray Richardson in Studio

Ray Richardson, New York Baby, 2022, Oil on Board, 31 x 11 inches (79 x 28 cms)

Ray Richardson, Return Of The Ain't, 2023, Oil on Linen, 107 x 107 cm (42 x 42 inches)

Ray Richardson, Bruegeledup, 2022, Oil on Board, 31 x 11 inches (79 x 28 cms)

Please email: [email protected] if you any further information or a list of available works.

Open 11am - 5pm Monday - Friday / By appointment

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