‘LIFE IS YOUR PROFESSION’ What an absolute riot of colour and graceful composition, each painting just waiting to melt your heart in SWELERS’ freshest series of classic, endearing characters each delicately positioned in their new transcendental surroundings. The Ben Oakley Gallery have been on an incredible journey from SWELERS’ first venture with our ‘Massive Miniatures’ …
‘URBAN HYMNS’ Mark Melvin Towers of raw concrete, Brutalism and Modernist urban buildings, visionaries which have divided opinion, influential architectural style, fascinating beautiful and inspiring, a utopian fantasy of art, definition of hard angles & a culture of London’s City Scape. Melvin walks the streets of London until there are holes in his shoes, sketchbook …
3riptych Ben Oakley Gallery presents ‘3riptych’, an exhibition by John Pedder and Patrick Colhoun. This exciting exhibition pairs two artists who use traditional method and craft in the most contemporary and innovative way. The connections between what appear to be two highly disparate practices are remarkably strong. The use of contemporary imagery and material is …
Opening Night Drinks Reception Friday 1st April @ 7pm Exhibition runs till 24th April 2022 We will never forget that fated evening on Friday 13th 2020 when Ben Addison’s ‘And Action’ first Solo show in London opened and then closed the very same day & the world changed for ever. We love Ben Addison’s work …
Opening Night Drinks Reception Friday 4th March @ 7pm SHOULD HAVE GONE TO COLLAGE Our First show of 2022 is carefully layered up of 30 Artists who generously contributed to our annual Phing-Thing Silent auction for St Christophers’ Hospice last year raising an amazing £4,395.00 We would like to thank everyone involved. Each artist has …
Opening Night Drinks Reception Friday 3rd December @ 7pm ‘The Return Of London’s No1’ Ray Richardson ( British born1964) During lockdown 2020 Richardson with his Return of the Southpaw training regime, maintained keeping his eye and hand coordination painting away in his apartment dubbed ‘The Indoor League Studio’ just to try to keep a level …
Opening Night Drinks Reception Friday 12th November @ 7pm “I’ve always collected vintage images. Old comics, magazines, posters and books, not in a ‘stick ’em in a big bag in the loft’ kind of way, but stored in large white boxes and placed in large white cupboards. Stanley Kubrick did the same thing (though his …
Opening Night Drinks Reception Friday 15th October from 7pm This dynamic exhibition brings together two very experienced street artists, both who have the natural world and it’s fragile existence in mind. Independently they create beautiful oversized mural exterior pieces across the World, combining classical painting techniques with a poignant message. The Ben Oakley Gallery has …
‘CLOSE SHAVE’ Join us for our first group show @No2 Nelson arcade SE10 9JB Friday 24th February 7-9.30 pm show runs til 26th March 2023. ‘Close Shave’ a Razor Sharp Gr oup Show with over 40 creme of the crop, with some regular and new faces, all held over two floors in our new location …
Opening Night Drinks Reception Friday 20th August from 7pm “Painted during the recent UK lockdown, during various stages of government restrictions, these landscapes are a mix of ‘en-plein-air’ studies and imagined views. It became apparent while I was painting them that they were capturing moments in time, the sun being the most consistent motif throughout. …