Linda Sutton, our president, is exhibiting in the International Original Print Exhibition at Bankside Gallery.
This is an open submission exhibition established by the Royal Society of Printmakers celebrating the best of contemporary printmaking from across the globe.
Linda's work, Orca and Red-handed Fish, has been awarded the Intaglio Printmaker prize.
Dates...
5th to the 15th of November 2026
Bankside Gallery
Thames Riverside
48 Hopton Street
London SE1 9JH
Louise Diggle, a valued member of The Small Paintings Group, died recently after a long illness. She will be greatly missed by the many who knew her.
She studied at the City and Guilds of London Art School and CCAT (now Anglia Ruskin University) and was an art teacher for over 20 years teaching both children and adults before becoming a full time painter.
Her work was all about the exploration of light - the way it hits and transforms places, objects and people.
Louise was a regular exhibitor at the Piers Feetham and the Jerram Galleries with the Small Paintings Group and annually at Chelsea Art Society, Art for Youth at the Mall Galleries and the Wimbledon Art Fair.
Richard has a solo exhibition at BRINK...
'We choose furniture in anticipation of the life we'll live around it. We picture where the sideboard will stand, the books and photographs we'll place, the morning coffee and evening drink we'll put on it. We take our measurements in the empty space, and imagine, before it has happened, the memory we're about to make.'
Dates...
22nd of September to the 23rd of October
BRINK Gallery
The People's Hall
2 Olaf Street
London
W11 4BE
The Small Paintings Group will be exhibiting at Iona House Gallery in September.
Iona House Gallery is a large independent art gallery based in Woodstock, Oxfordshire. Established in 2002, the gallery specialises in contemporary paintings and original prints, sculpture, ceramics, glass, wood, and jewellery, sourced directly from established as well as up-and-coming artists across the UK and internationally.
Dates...
5th to the 27th of September 2026.
The gallery is open from 10am to 5:15pm Monday to Saturday, 12pm to 4pm Sunday.
Iona House Gallery
4 High Street
Woodstock
Oxfordshire OX20 1TF
This exhibition, A Personal Odyssey, explores the career of acclaimed painter Joyce W. Cairns as part of the Royal Scottish Academy's 200th anniversary celebrations. As the first woman to be elected President of the RSA and an influential educator to generations of Scottish artists, Joyce has long been an important voice in Scottish art.
Dates...
Saturday 1st of August to Wednesday the 2nd of September 2026.
Joyce W. Cairns - A Personal Odyssey
The Royal Scottish Academy
The Mound
Edinburgh EH2 2EL
An interview with Kirsty Wark was broadcast on BBC Radio 4's "Front Row" on Wednesday 29th of July at 7:15 pm. It is available on BBC Sounds.
Congratulations to our newly elected members. Brief details are given below; click the image for full biographical details...
Emma Hill is a figurative painter living and working in London. The artist's work encompasses portraiture, still life, landscape, intimate interior scenes and quiet corners in small London gardens. Emma works from life and in her home-as-studio, combining observation with an intuitive response to both the sitter, landscape or set of objects and paint.
Liying Zhao, China-born British Chinese, is a contemporary artist based in London with over 27 years of experience in artistic creation. She developed her new art style in London. She applied the psychological concept of Holism to art. She is making her series of The Story of The Exhibition.
She specialises in creating artwork on linen, paper, and board using a variety of mediums including oil, acrylic, charcoal, pastel, watercolour, Chinese ink, and printmaking...
Ivy Smith has an exhibition of paintings, drawing and prints entitled "People and Places". The exhibition is accompanied by a book written by Richard Benson, with a foreword by Frances Spalding.
Dates/Times...
19th of February to the 1st of March 2026
Open Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday 11am to 6pm
61 Colebrooke Row
London N1 8AB
Tel: 07345 241316 or 07958 538278
The artist will be present throughout the exhibition
www.ivysmith.co.uk
The Small Paintings Group will be exhibiting at Trent Art Gallery this Autumn. The exhibition will include some works by Anne Wright RBA, a past president of the group, who recently passed away.
Dates...
19th of November to the 23rd of December 2025.
The gallery is open from 10am to 4pm Tuesday to Saturday, Closed Sunday, Monday by appointment.
Trent Art Gallery
19 Brunswick Street
Newcastle-under-Lyme
Staffordshire ST5 1HF
It is with sadness that we must report the death of retired member, Charles Hardaker.
Charles studied at Birmingham College of Arts & Crafts, served in the Royal Artillery for National Service then studied for three years at the Royal College of Art in London (Queen's Scholar) ARCA 1958.
He became a member of the New English Art Club in 1969 and of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1984. Painting mostly still lives, interiors and portraits, he also undertook philosophical / scriptural commissions.
His work is in the permanent collections of the Tate Gallery, the Guildhall of London, the then GLC, the National Library of Wales, the Institute of Civil Engineers and numerous private collections in the UK and overseas, including the USA, Canada, Japan and Greece.
From our President, Linda Sutton...
"It is with sadness that I inform you of the death of our previous SPG President, Anne Wright.
Most of us called her Annie. I always enjoyed her kindness and hospitality when she hosted our Council Meetings and SPG Christmas Parties at her home in Clapham among her antiques, vintage furniture, collection of crockery and memorabilia. Also, her own paintings of Santorini, an island she loved. In the early days I remember her elegant greyhounds on the front room sofas.
As the current President, I'm glad we had a transition, so Annie was able to come to my house the last couple of years for our Christmas Parties. It meant a great deal to her that the Group was continuing. She never missed an AGM, until last month."
A short film about Anne by Gavin Kingcome...
Linden Hall Studio are hosting a three week long Small Paintings Group Exhibition this spring.
Linden Hall Studio is an independent, family run, contemporary art gallery in Deal in East Kent. It has been working as Deal’s ‘premier’ centre for the visual arts since 2014, with a vibrant exhibition programme that hosts eleven major shows each year.
Dates...
19th of April to the 10th of May 2025
Linden Hall Studio
32 St Georges Road
Deal
Kent CT14 6BA
Ann Heat RBA, a long time and much loved member of the Small Paintings Group, has died after a long illness.
Born in Esher, Surrey in 1945, Ann studied at Kingston School of Art, London College of Printing and Kathleen Browne School of Painting.
Her beautiful paintings, still lifes and landscapes will be missed at our group exhibitions, and those that knew her will greatly feel the loss.
Judith Gardner NEAC RBA, a valued member of The Small Paintings Group, died recently after a long illness. She will be greatly missed by many who knew her.
Judith studied at Maidstone College of Art in Kent where she gained a BA Honours degree in Fine Art. Whilst at college she was awarded the David Murrey Scholarship for landscape painting in 1974.
After leaving college she taught drawing and painting at Adult Education Centres in Kent and later in Windsor at the East Berkshire College. Here she also taught ‘A’ level and GCSE Art to full time students and also drawing and painting for the BTEC Design and Display course.
In 1998 Judith moved back to Kent to paint full time. She became a member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 2000 and was elected to the Small Paintings Group in 2002.
A Eulogy for Judith Gardner by James Horton PPRBA
The Small Paintings Group has an exhibition of members work at the Russell Gallery in October.
This exhibition will also include four works from the Memorial Collection of the late Tom Coates and four works from the estate of the late Ronald Morgan.
Dates...
Thursday 3rd to Saturday 26th of October.
Private View...
Thursday 3rd of October 10am to 8:30 pm.
Gallery Hours...
Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 5:30 pm.
Russell Gallery
12 Lower Richmond Road
London
SW15 1JP
Congratulations to our newly elected members. Brief details are given below; click the image for full biographical details...
Rachel is an award-winning artist originally from Rochdale, Lancashire. She currently lives in London with her husband and two children. She is a regular exhibitor at Mall Galleries, where she has shown her work alongside The Royal Society of British Artists, NEAC, the SWA and The Pastel Society, each on several occasions.
Rachel is better known for her atmospheric sea and landscapes, which are gestural, heartfelt and emotional.
Richard Baker (b. 1971) lives and works in Leeds, UK. He holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Leeds Metropolitan University and an MA in Creative Practice from Leeds Arts University. His work has been exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, including at museums in China, The San Francisco Arts Institute, the National Museum of Poland in Gdansk, the Mall Galleries, London, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Richard Baker’s small to medium scale oil paintings depict mid-century furniture and sometimes clothing, or other items. Reimagined from found photographs, these unpeopled and modestly scaled works invite the viewer to consider the hidden human histories behind seemingly insignificant objects.
Lisa loves painting people and animals involved in everyday life and domestic activities in a colourful and cheerful way. A few years living in rural France and on a narrowboat provide many an inspiration. Now based in Wimbledon, rows of terraced homes and allotments, horse riding and dog walking on the Common are current themes.
She went to Camberwell School of Art obtaining a BA with Honours. Elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours in 1996 and the Society of Graphic Fine Artists in 2015.
Studied Fine Art at Hornsey College of Art and Waltham Forest School of Art 1968 - 1972. Went on to train as a Scenic Artist at BBC Television Centre in White City before pursuing a long career as a mural painter, working throughout the UK, the Channel Islands, Italy and Sweden.
Now paints exclusively from her studio in Wiltshire making paintings concerned with the direct gaze and the emotive qualities of facial expressions, posing questions about time and place and suggesting a narrative.
My work is mainly about people, but also still-life and landscape, particularly the watery landscape of East Anglia. I work in oils, watercolour and print (linocut and etching), underpinned by drawing.
I studied at Chelsea and the Royal Academy Schools (RA Gold Medal), and live in Norfolk.
Our next group exhibition is being hosted by Mandell's Gallery in Norwich, Norfolk.
Dates...
20th of April to the 18th of May 2024
Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 5pm
Mandell's Gallery
Elm Hill
Norwich
Norfolk NR3 1HN
Panter & Hall are hosting a Small Paintings Group Exhibition later this year. The artist PJ Crook MBE RWA FRSA will be exhibiting with us as an invited artist.
Located in the heart of London in Pall Mall this prestigious gallery has, over the last 20 years, "forged a solid reputation for dealing in art and artists of talent and value".
Dates...
29th of November to the 22nd of December 2023
Panter & Hall
11 - 12 Pall Mall
London SW1Y 5LU
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