As part of the European Heritage Days initiative in September, the Katakouzenos House Museum in Athens will soon be hosting Richard Cartwright's first solo exhibition outside of Britain.

These Days at Katakouzenous House Museum, Athens will be open from 26th Sept - 12th Oct. Please contact the gallery for further details.

The 13 new paintings in this preview will be included in the artist’s larger exhibition to be held in London in January 2009.



Frederick Yates
25 July 1922 - 7 July 2008

We are sorry to announce the very sad news that Fred Yates passed away on the 7th of July.
Fred will be dearly missed by all of us at the gallery and his many friends.
A Memorial Service will be held at St James's Church, Piccadilly on September 11th at 12 noon. All are welcome to attend.


Congratulations to BARRY McGLASHAN who has been shortlisted for the BP Portrait Award this year. Barry's self-portrait will be viewable at the National Portrait Gallery from 12 June - 14 September 2008, following which the exhibition will tour to Wolverhampton Art Gallery (27 September - 14 November 2008) and Aberdeen Art Gallery (November 2008 - 24 January 2009).

Barry's next exhibition at JMLondon is planned for Spring 2009. Before this time please contact the gallery for information and images of currently available work.


In April NEALE HOWELLS featured as the artist on Arts Hub's 'Proust Pin-Up questionnaire'. The resulting interview is viewable on their website: www.artshub.co.uk/

Gallery Technician Dan Weill's team 'DKNYeah' have just been announced as winners of Coyote Banger Rally (www.coyote-rally.co.uk), a 5 day rally travelling from Paris to Amsterdam, via Prague and Munich. The team raised over £1,500 in aid of Sue Ryder charity's Nettlebed Care Home in Reading. Well done team!

FRANCIS HAMEL has recently completed a collection of paintings for the newly refurbished Fortnum & Mason at 181 Piccadilly, London. Images of the installed work may be viewed on Francis Hamel's website: www.francishamel.com

A small exhibition of recent paintings is hung in our lower gallery in celebration of the major commission.


PRESS :-

- Melita Denaro's forthcoming exhibition Upon the Glad Earth features in the Spring 2008 edition of Irish Art Review, as reviewed by Brian Fallon.

- Olivia Musgrave recent exhibition at Jorgensen Fine Art, Dublin was reviewed in The Irish Times by Aidan Dunne. Published 20th February 2008.

- John Caple's Sea and Hill and Wood was reviewed by Mary Miers in Country Life magazine, published 13 December 2007.

- David Whetstone interviewed Andrew Gifford for an article feature in Culture Magazine, Newcastle. Published 29th October 2007.

- John Martin was interviewed by Terrence Rodrigues in relation to Andrew Gifford's exhibition Tyne Bridge Tower Paintings. The resulting article was published in Country House magazine in October 2007.



NEW PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE FROM THE GALLERY :-

For a full listing of Publications please select the link on the left

SOMERSET: THE PAINTINGS OF JOHN CAPLE
Introduction by Nell Leyshon
170 x 170 mm 96 pages, 50 colour illustrations
ISBN 978-0-955-26674-4
Price £15.00
Published: November 2007

For generations John Caple’s family have been farmers and land-workers in the Mendips, and much of his art is concerned with the land, its inhabitants and the folklore of this area of Somerset.

When Caple began to paint, the collective folk memory of the Mendips still lingered on in certain villages: the festivals, the healers and the cures, fortune-tellers, witches and ‘cunning men’. His neighbours still knew which house ‘Cunning Beacham’ used to live in; a relative might remember the way to repel an adder bite and how to use a heart charm to bring love. You were still as likely to find a magic charm as a bus ticket in a Somerset pocket.

A unique painter with an extraordinary vision and remarkable skill as a storyteller, this beautifully designed new book reflects six years of John Caple’s paintings; interweaving his striking images with the folklore that inspires his work.

To pre-order copies please contact rose@jmlondon / +44 (0)20 7499 1314



FRED YATES: C’EST VOTRE PASSION, MONSIEUR!
210 x 165mm
112pages, 70 colour illustrations
ISBN 978-0-955-26672-0
Price £20.00
Published: 18th October 2007

Born in Manchester in 1922, Fred Yates worked as an insurance clerk, before serving as a Grenadier Guardsman in the war. He taught art for many years, then moved to Cornwall, where he started to paint fulltime. His idiosyncratic paintings are easily identified by their brilliant vibrant colour, often squeezed straight from the tube. The apparent naïve style masks a sure skill in creating his world of Manchester city life, Cornish villages and French landscapes, populated by his familiar cast of characters. He moved to France in the early 1990s where, now in his mid-eighties, he continues to paint as obsessively as ever.

Published by White Lane Press, this new book documents Fred Yates' years in France from 1992 to the present. John Martin was invited to write the introduction and the many illustrations are peppered with excerpts from Fred's letters, journals and other correspondence.

To pre-order copies please contact rose@jmlondon / +44 (0)20 7499 1314