British Art News
The latest news in Modern and Contemporary British Art.
by Alex Leith
MARTYN R MACKRILL
If Martyn Mackrill hadn’t been a marine artist, he would almost certainly have become a marine engineer.
DIANA ARMFIELD
Browse & Darby have represented the painter Diana Armfield since 1979, and the Cork Street gallery will display her Centenary Exhibition – postponed since 2020 – until July 28.
R.B. KITAJ AT PIANO NOBILE
Piano Nobile have announced their representation of the estate of the late American-born painter R.B. Kitaj, who spent the bulk of his prolific working life in England.
KERRY HARDING: EDGE OF DAY
Kerry Harding lives in Cornwall, and the Cornish landscape is the subject of her work.
INTERVIEW WITH JAMES HYMAN
‘We established James Hyman Fine Art in 1999 to specialise in post-war British art. This was the area I focused on for my PhD at the Courtauld Institute, so it was wonderful to develop this passion.’
VICTOR WILLING
The Mayfair gallery Timothy Taylor has announced its representation of the Estate of Victor Willing.
POSTWAR MODERN: NEW ART IN BRITAIN 1945-65
How did the horrors of WW2 change the shape of British art?
LUCY WERTHEIM
Towner Eastbourne has unveiled two interconnected exhibitions which reveal the galvanising role played in the birth of Modern British art by a little-remembered art-world pioneer, Lucy Wertheim.
BARBARA HEPWORTH IN AMSTERDAM
The show has been guest-curated by Hepworth’s granddaughter, the art historian Sophie Bowness.
MODERN BRITISH EXHIBITION AT OSBORNE SAMUEL
This summer’s highly anticipated Modern British collection at Osborne Samuel includes a number of pieces that have not been seen publicly for a very long time.
WILHELMINA BARNS-GRAHAM AND JONATHAN MICHAEL RAY
The pairing of these two seemingly disparate artists serves, interestingly, to reveal what it is that they share: not just a deep connection with the mysterious and ancient landscape of West Cornwall, but a brilliantly diverse creativity.
CANDIDA STEVENS, GALLERIST
We specialise in contemporary painting and textile-based art. We work with artists whose integrity we admire and whose skill and determination we aspire to emulate. While trying to stay current we also try to support our gallery artists through changing times, as fashions come and go, and demands change.
BROWSE & DARBY: 45 YEARS ON CORK STREET
Browse & Darby was established at 19 Cork Street in 1977, by Lillian Browse and William Darby. Browse, an eminent art dealer and art historian nicknamed ‘the Duchess of Cork Street’, had previously run a gallery since 1944 in the same premises.
WILLIAM CROZIER: NATURE INTO ABSTRACTION
Scots/Irish artist William Crozier (1930-2011) established his reputation as one of the leading artists of his generation in post-war Britain with a remarkable series of landscape paintings produced from 1958 to 1961.
TERRY FROST: RED WITH BLACK ON THE SIDE
When the Bloomsbury gallery Austin/Desmond Fine Art, long-standing exhibitors at the British Art Fair, decided to run a major retrospective covering seven decades of Sir Terry Frost’s printmaking practice, there was little doubt as to who might curate it.