Galleries - December 2014

36 GALLERIES DECEMBER 2014 MAP 18 LONDON KENSINGTON & NOTTING HILL KENSINGTON GARDENS HOLLAND PARK P C L A R E N D O N R O A D L A D B RO KE S Q P A LA C E G S . C A M P D E N H I L L R O A D E XHIB IT I O N R O AD Q U E E N ’ S G A T E S T B O U RN E TC E S U S S E X G D N S Q U E E N S W A Y R O K E G R O V E P A R K R O A D N O T T I N G H I L L G A T E P E M B R I D G E R D A N D P A R K R O A D K E N S I N G T O N C H U R C H S T R O A D K E N S I N G T O N H I G H S T K E N S I N G T O N R O A D B A Y S W A T E R R O A D a e d c b g f e High St Kensington Holland Park Queensway Bayswater Notting Hill Gate a CALKEN GALLERY 117 Kensington Church Street W8 7LN Independent contemporary art gallery, home to exquisite artwork of RA, Landseer Prize winning sculptor Michael Talbot. Calken is renowned for emphasis on figurative bronze sculpture, presented in relaxing, elegant surroundings, together with refreshing variety of paintings ranging in style and method. Mon–Sat 10.30–6 t 020 7998 6446 info@calkengallery.com www.calkengallery.com b GALLERY 19 19 Kensington Court Place W8 5BJ Bespoke picture framer and art gallery specialising in architectural views ofKensington, London and Italy. The permanent collection features original paintings, Limited Edition prints and photographs, reproduction maps and globes ofthe world, leather-bound journals, architectural models, unique hand-crafted objects from Italy and house portraits available by commission. Mon–Sat 10–6 t 020 7937 7222 info@gallery19.com www.gallery19.com c LEIGHTON HOUSE MUSEUM 12 Holland ParkRoad, W14 8LZ Former home and studio ofleading Victorian artist Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830-96). A private palace of art, built to designs ofGeorge Aitchison, extended and embellished over a 30 year period. A Victorian Obsession: The Pérez Simón Collection at Leighton House Museum. Nov 14–Mar 29. 50 exceptional paintings from the largest Victorian private art collection outside Great Britain, shown for the first time in the UK. Admn £10; concs £6; National Trust and The Art Fund members £5. Daily 10–5.30, closed Tue t 020 7602 3316 www.leightonhouse.co.uk ? PORTAL PAINTERS 100-102 Sutherland Avenue W9 2QR (viewings by appt) Figurative painters with a surreal feel. Original paintings and prints by Beryl Cook . Exhibiting on Stand G16 at the London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, Islington, Jan 21–25. t 020 7286 0940 / 07801 668237 info@portalpainters.co.uk www.portalpainters.co.uk www.berylcook.org d THE ROWLEY GALLERY 115 Kensington Church Street W8 7LN Mixed Exhibition ofsmall contemporary paintings & prints. *ad Bespoke picture framers since 1898. Hand-finished conservation framing, gilding and veneering. Mon–Fri 10–6, Sat 11–4.30 t 020 7727 6495 f 020 7243 1054 tube Notting Hill Gate www.rowleygallery.co.uk e SERPENTINE GALLERY Kensington Gardens, W2 3XA www.serpentinegallery.org f THACKERAY GALLERY 18 Thackeray Street, W8 5ET “luminescence”, Judy Buxton. Dec 2–18. An exuberant collection ofsemi- abstract oil paintings, oflight, vibrant still lifes and sensitive studies of horses. Tue–Fri 10–6, Sat 11–4 t 020 7937 5883 enquiries@thackeraygallery.com www.thackeraygallery.com g WILLER 12-14 Holland Street, Kensington W8 4LT Paul Mathieu. From Dec 4. ‘Aile’ – new lighting. Mon–Fri 10–6, Sat 10–5 and by appt t 020 7937 3518 info@willer.co.uk www.willer.co.uk THUMB nails Daniel Chatto ‘Symbiosis’ For Daniel Chatto (b.1957), the Sussex Downs is a luminous terrain of mythologising intimacy – alchemically conjured up on handmade Indian paper (‘tough as tree bark’) with pure paints he makes himself from raw pigments. In ‘Green Earth’ at Long and Ryle (map 21, until 19 December), trees’ redemptive resilience against relentless elements, is sensitively studied and celebrated. Landscape with Oaks is ambitious in scale to encompass broad canopies perceived as both grounded and diaphonously dynamic. Entwined (sanguine and morellone with oak gall ink on paper) depicts the urgent creaturely embrace of an oak and holly tree. Other paintings explore the human form in nature, gracefully solitary on a hillside or as a naked visionary presence surging amid sparkling dark skies or waters. Philip Vann