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Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2026 16 June - 23 August 2026
I have 2 paintings in this year, one just above these lovely people. It is ‘Are You Playing Out?’ Both are in room IX selected by Eileen Cooper RA and Katherine Jones RA
Opening times: Monday: closed Tuesday–Thursday & Sunday: 10am–6pm Friday–Saturday: 10am–9pm
BEYOND THE STUDIO: A CELEBRATION OF ARTISTS AND MAKERS AT PHOENIX
EXHIBITION 11 July - 13 September Wednesday – Sunday, 12 – 5pm
Celebrate 30 years of artists and makers at Phoenix Art Space
‘Mutually Entangled’ an exhibition by 8 TURPS painters in BN9 Studio Newhaven BN9 OER curated by Helen Savage and Paul Sayers
16th July - Aug 2nd 2026 Thurs – Sat 10am – 4pm | 10am – 3pm on Sun
Featuring work by: Caitlin Heffernan Helen Savage, Paul Ditch, Paul Sayers, Philip Cole, Sarah Rianhard Gardner, Stephen Buckeridge and Verity Woolley
‘Postcards for Seyðisfjörður’ at the Icelandic Embassy in Copenhagen. Denmark:
18 April - 4 June 2026
Open all week days from 09:00 - 16:00 Embassy of Iceland in Copenhagen Strandgade 89,DK-1401 København K
Contrariwise is the first exhibition of the refreshed studio1.1 in partnership with Sluice.
with: LIZ ELTON, PHILIP COLE, SHAWN STIPLING, DEEPA CHUDASAMA, PATRICK O’DONNELL, JULIE CAVES, RUTH PHILO, MARION PIPER, GO-BETWEEN PROJECTS, MARK SCOTT-WOOD, SHARON SWAINE, DAVID WEBB, MATTHEW SWIFT, JAMES DEARLOVE, DOMINGO ARJONILLA
The exhibition continues until 31st May 2026, open Thursday-Sunday inclusive
One of my Paintings is in this show at the amazing BN9 Gallery in Newhaven
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‘Postcards for Seyðisfjörður’ is travelling to the Icelandic Embassy in Copenhagen this Spring. More details to follow
Sunday Salon 37 at Saturation Point Projects ACME Studios, Studio 14, 165 Childers Street, Deptford, London SE8 5JR.
A solo show featuring 10 of my recent works in December 2025
You can view by appointment by contacting editor@saturationpoint.org.uk
“Postcards for Seyðisfjörður” at the Icelandic Embassy. London . The Icelandic Embassy reprised the exhibition first held at LungA school in Seyðisfjörður in Iceland May 2025. This a photo from the opening pv with some of the artists who participated. The exhibition is open to the public until 15th December 10.00 – 13.00 and 14.00 - 15.00 Monday – Friday by appointment only via the email: london@utn.is
The Errant Collaborators (a play within a play) @Mirror_Plymouth 24th October – 17th December MIRROR Arts University Plymouth Tavistock Place PLYMOUTH PL4 8AT One of my Paintings is featured in this exhibition that explores the inherent problems of painting, authorship, display, and control, by collapsing the boundaries between studio and gallery, and forcing works into unpredictable, often uncomfortable relationships that challenge the roles of artist, curator, and the paintings themselves. Organised by Dan Howard Birt. It features works first exhibited in Vice Versa at Terrace Gallery London curated by Johanna Melvin
‘Saying’ exhibited in GAZAGAZAGAZA - a show of Solidarity Studio 1.1 and Artists Supporting Palestine. Shoreditch. London. 100% of the proceeds of all sales go to Medical aid for Palestinians. Exhibition: 10-07-25 - 27-07-25
Juxtapose Aarhus Denmark 13-15th June 2025
A weekend of exhibitions, guided tours, and artist-led activities that celebrates the artist-run
In the spirit of world building and developing our relationships with artists internationally, the Hardies were thrilled to be joined by Danish artists Ulla Pedersen and Eva Myrdal Linstow to collaborate with us for Juxtapose 2025.
Ian Boutell, Philip Cole, Stig Evans, Patrick O’Donnell
H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G ‘Postcards for Seyðisfjörður’ Iceland 23- 25 May 2025
Postcards reflect cultural and interactional enactments of contemporary globalisation, the transient mementos of travel. Dieter Roth played an important role in the cultural life of Seyðisfjörður. He also painted on postcards. H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G asked artists to obverse the once common practice of sending a postcard from a place visited … send a “painted” postcard of Seyðisfjörður to Seyðisfjörður. A postcard of itself to itself but altered by artists who may not have travelled to Seyðisfjörður before.
This mail art project was in collaboration with Sluice expo 25 and LungA School.
Vice Versa. 07.05 - 01.06.2025
Twelve free form and twelve hard edge painters in an exhibition as survey by means of comparison, contrast and potential dialogue between two approaches to abstraction
Terrace Gallery at Lea Bridge Library Pavilion. London
There’s a review of Making Painting ++ on Saturation point by Geoff Hands. https://www.saturationpoint.org.uk/
You can also find many interesting and illuminating reviews on exhibitions past and present on this site - I heartily recommend it.
Phoenix Art Space Window Gallery
30 November 2024 - 23 February 2025
Until the 13th February. By Appointment Via Phoenix office Telephone: +44 (0)1273 603700 or Direct Message me via instagram or 07801 014961
From 13th February - 23rd February Open Wednesday - Sunday, 12pm - 5pm. Entry via main reception
Making Painting + + features several new works along with some painting objects that have never been exhibited before, or only briefly to a small audience.
10 YEARS OF PROJECT 78
7th Dec 2024 - 11th Jan 2025
pv Saturday 7th December 6-8pm
To celebrate ten years of Project 78 Gallery, artists that have exhibited over the last 10 years were asked to produce a piece of work in any medium for the final show of 2024, the only criteria, the dimensions of the artwork would be no more than A3.
Gallery Open Wednesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm Project 78 Gallery 78 Norman Road, St Leonards-on-Sea, TN38 0EJ @project78gallery
I am exhibiting 2 works on paper in ‘PaperWork’ at NEWHAVEN ART SPACE
EXHIBITION 14 NOV – 7 DEC 2024
Gallery opening times Thursday to Saturday 10 am – 4 pm.
the H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_E_R_S took part in ‘focus UK’ in the nonsofia gallery & archive. Sofia. Bulgaria
25 september-17th november 2024
‘focus uk’ featured work by: hans hancock, ian boutell, jeremy morgan, karen loader, mary yacoob, patrick morrissey, Patrick o’donnell, philip cole, stig evans and tom hackney.
Turps Final Show at Electro Studios St Leonards on Sea 27th - 30th June 2024
During 2023/4 I took part in the Turps offsite Hastings programme. A year of talks, crits and 1 to 1 mentor studio visits. I would heartily recommend it if anyone is considering one of the off site programmes. My largest painting in a few years was featured in the final year show.
‘What to do’ Coloured Polyester Resins on fibreglass & foam 125 x 186 x 5cm
VERNACULAR the 2024 SLUICE expo in Colchester @theminories and events around town and in Colchester Arts Centre, weekend of June 14, 15, 16th 2024
What does art look like when it engages with environmental, geographical, political and ethical considerations? An art of dissent, an art against the status quo. Does this kind of art use a unique way of communicating? And if so, what does it – or what could it – look like?
These questions have been spurred by the location and cultural history of Essex and East Anglia in the east of England, the setting of the 2024 Sluice expo. Colchester – from Boudica’s rebellion and the Peasants’ Revolt to Essex’s reputation as a hotbed for radical communes, religious reformers and utopian enclaves – has a rich history of dissent. H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_E_R_S took part
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H_A_R_D_P_A_P_E_R at Phoenix Art Space 2nd March – 14th April 2024
The third in a series of exhibitions at Phoenix Art Space that highlight work by contemporary abstract painters. H_A_R_D_P_A_P_E_R focussed on works on paper, acknowledging the different qualities of surface that can influence mark making. For this exhibition artists from the previous two were asked to select a piece of their own work and invite another artist to be involved. The exhibition featured work by over 50 artists.
Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2023
Delighted that Anthropocene Scene 2 was selected for the RA Summer Exhibition this year. Here’s a photograph taken on Varnishing day - it’s Room VIII curated by David Remfry RA. The Summer Exhibition is on from the 13 June - 20 August 2023 Hope you can get along.
I have a few paintings at WRAP Brighton for the duration of the Brighton Festival. Part of the exhibition Overtone - which is on from march 2023 until the autumn. Wrap is very close to Brighton station
MARGINALS An exhibition that features work by Lloyd Durling and Philip Cole and is at Project 78 Gallery 78 Norman Road. St Leonards on Sea.
Project 78 writes … the synergy and energy of the curation is evident and does not feel forced. There is a lightness to it. There is nothing final about the context of what questions might be asked here between the two …
The gallery is open each week from Wednesday to Saturday (11.00am-5.00pm) and the exhibition continues through christmas until the 7th January.
Art on a Postcard Winter Auction: October – November 2022.
I was pleased to have been invited to contribute to this. These 4 postcard sized painting objects, lots 350-353 were sold and collectively raised £350 for The Hepatitis C Trust via Dreweatts Auction House
The works are all postcard size and titled: 4.16.A 4.16.B C &D
RA Summer Show 2022
Thrilled that two of my paintings ‘Assist’ and ‘Desist’ were chosen for the Royal Academy Summer exhibition this year. This is ‘Desist’ it is painted in Coloured Polyester resins on birch ply, size: 30x30x3.5cm. The exhibition is open from 21June - 21August.
2 - day mosaic workshop for Year 10 students at Treviglas academy, a Newquay Secondary School.
This venture was completed for the Newquay Renaissance Project … smiles all around as students, parents, members of the community and Mayor Gardner gathered to see the unveiling of the mosaics installed on a wall owned by Newquay businessman, John White, adjacent to the Lighthouse Cinema right in the centre of Newquay town
Hastings Open 2020 at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery 27 August 2020 - 03 January 2021
Two of my paintings, Shift 2 and Shift 4 are on display in this exhibition. Hastings Open is a major open-entry art show celebrating the creative talent of artists and makers from across the world. The exhibition brings together pieces from artists working in painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, digital and more, selected by a panel of practising artists and curators. Hope you are able to get along - book a slot online.
A Group Painting Exhibition 'Boom' in Brighton from 30th June - 6th July. 2021
A Group show by the Ruminators … a diverse group of 10 experienced painters, curators and practitioners resident in Brighton and Hove.
Sunday Salon 10 | Temporal Objects at ACME Childers street London 31 May - 14 June 2020
A Saturation Point project curated by Patrick Morrissey and Hanz Hancock. A salon without guests; a consequence of pandemic.
I am taking part in the first round of artist talks organised by epox_contemporary. It will feature 4 artists talking about their practice and process and will last 1 hour, 15 minutes each. Primer 1 is at 7.00pm May 19, 2021.
Circles and spheres have often been a feature or component in my paintings however I had not used the circular format until I painted a series of tondo’s. This is Slip 2
Image by Bernard G Mills
Jan/Feb 2020 at Phoenix Art Space H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G_ x2 an exhibition in 2 parts and the culmination of 18 months of preparation.The preview for part 1 is Friday 10 Jan and open from the 11th.
Editions 19 at Project 78 Gallery St Leonards on Sea. until 11th January 2020
The show brings together original editioned artworks by artists who have exhibited at Project 78.
Entractes8 ‘La débâcle’
I have just completed ‘La débâcle’ a painted paper collage pasted directly onto the doors of the Eye Sees Gallery in Arles. France. It will be up for ‘Entractes8’ from the 1st December 2019 until the end of January 2020
Spotlight at Phoenix Art Space
Please do come along - i will be talking about my studio practice and generally what makes me tick!
Tickets available from eventbrite
Lichen Strip at Phoenix Brighton
May 26, 2019
Stig Evans and Philip Cole share studio balconies at Phoenix Brighton. Since being repainted less than 10 years ago they have noticed the gradual growth and spread of orange/yellow lichen across its parapet. Xanthoria parietina and Xanthoria aureola. Common lichens that occur throughout Southern England. Lichens are used as indicators of air quality and their gradual spread over the balcony and roofs across Brighton suggest a change to Brighton’s air quality. Both lichen species are able to tolerate surfaces with high levels of pollutants associated with artificial fertilizer and car exhaust fumes.
To highlight this, the Artists have come together to work on this collaborative piece. Both are abstract painters, sharing common interests in colour and colour nomenclature, both also make text-based work.
Together they have subtly transformed the balcony by removing sections of the lichen to create a temporary intervention. ‘Lichen Strip’ is a 44-metre-long text piece using an historic colour designation system for naming colours that uses a set of 12 basic colour terms and a small set of adjective modifiers. The National Bureau of Colour Standards first established the dictionary in the 1930s. Its intention being to sufficiently standardise colour nomenclature across different fields such as science, arts, printing, geology and botany as well as being easily understood by everyone.
Using the yellow /orange section of the dictionary the lichen was carefully removed to create a lyrical text-based piece that also identifies and categorises the incredible colours that the lichen contain
Review
A Review of Making Painting + - by Geoff Hands is available to read on saturationpoint.org.uk
Image by Bernard G Mills
Making Painting + - at Phoenix Brighton This exhibition will feature some of my new work and experiments. The window gallery is a space where Phoenix artists show finished work, explore new ideas, and present work in progress - come and see what I have been up to.
20th March - 21st April. Open Wednesday’s to Sundays 11 - 5 pm. You are welcome to join me for the pv on Saturday evening 23rd March from 6 - 8pm.
EDITION 1 at Phoenix Brighton features small editions of artwork in different mediums by some of the artists working at Phoenix Brighton. I have 3 small works on display. Open from 19 January - 17 February. Wednesday’s - Sunday’s 11.00 am - 5.00 pm
editions 18 at Project78 Gallery St Leonards on Sea
I have a variable edition of 10 ‘cut-out’ collages in this years editions show. The gallery is open from 15th Dec - 19th January 2019. It is open Wednesday’s - Saturday’s 10:00 - 17:00
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The Momentum I Relative Trajectories at Angus-Hughes Gallery
Two linked projects curated by Patrick Morrisey and Hanz Hancock of Saturation Point the London-based online editorial and curatorial arts platform
From Friday 13th July 2018 (pv from 6-9pm) until Friday 3rd August. Open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays and at other times by appointment
Open Studios at Phoenix Brighton May 2018
Phoenix Open Studios preview is Friday 18th May 6-9pm at Phoenix Brighton 10-14 Waterloo Place Brighton BN2 9NB. The current exhibition in the main gallery features Brett Goodroad. There is also a display of diverse works by artists working at Phoenix and last but not least the studios are open for you to take a peak inside - that's over 100 studios.
I'll be opening my studio too so do pop in and see some of my latest work.
If you are unable to make the preview, Phoenix Open Studios is open from Saturday 19th May – Sunday 20th May. From 11am - 5pm.
I hope that you can make it along
H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G at Phoenix Brighton 13/1 - 11/2/2018
Ian Boutell, John Bunker, Philip Cole, Stig Evans, Tess Jaray, Johanna Melvin, Patrick O’Donnell
Seven contemporary abstract painters explore the possibilities inherent in space, colour, line and edge, and seek to develop a conversation around the language of paint. The exhibition presents a collection of paintings that have been developed through pre-meditated and choreographed processes; in developing the images, the artists favour intention over accident.
Please do come along and see the show
Editions 17 at Project 78 Gallery St Leonards on Sea
It features Limited edition works created by the artists who have exhibited in the gallery over the last 3 year period. I will have a limited edition called 'Anthropocene' on display and for sale. Edtions 17 also features excellent and thought provoking work from other artists including Becky Beasley, Tom Hammick, Poppy Jones, Joseph Long , Nick Snelling and more.
Editions 17 is on until 13/01/2018
Artist of the Month at Phoenix Brighton July 2017
I was the featured artist of the month for July at Phoenix Brighton. Check out the entry and read about other artists who have studios at Phoenix Brighton here.
Open Studios at Phoenix Brighton
Phoenix is opening its doors again during the Brighton Festival.
There's a preview event on Friday 12th May, 6-9pm, to which you are invited.
I'll be there all weekend, Saturday & Sunday 13/14th May, 11-5pm so it would be great to see you if you're in the neighbourhood.
Perspectives 2012-2017 at ONCA Gallery Brighton 2-9 March 2017
Join me from 6-9pm on March 2nd to celebrate ONCA’s first five years and the unveiling of the new website, logo and gallery frontage.
This retrospective group exhibition looks at some of ONCA's greatest projects to date. Come and help ONCA imagine and shape the next chapter.
JDWC at the Kino Teatr St Leonards on Sea - Saturday 14 01 2017
This event marked the ten year anniversary since local Hastings artist Jonny Cole died January 2007, in Cambodia. A gathering to remember and celebrate Jon's life, his work as a painter and the inspiration that has become his legacy to many Hastings and St Leonards residents through his paintings and of course quite simply for the person he was.
The ground floor of the Gallery at Kino featured twenty of Jon's paintings spanning a short but prolific two decades.
During the course of the evening, the JDWC website was launched (jdwc.org) and visitors were also treated to five short films in the packed Kino cinema
Editions 16 Opens soon at Project 78 St Leonards on Sea
It features Limited edition works created by the artists who have exhibited in the gallery over the last 2 year period. I will have a limited edition called 'Top 20' on display and for sale. There is bound to be some excellent and thought provoking work featured so do come along - you may find a fantastic christmas present to purchase and in doing so you'll be supporting artists from London and the South East.
The big heart auction for Chestnut Tree House: June/July 2016
I donated Abstrakt Painting to the online auction that raised funds for Chestnut Tree House’s vital work caring for children with life-shortening illnesses across Sussex, and Brighton Dome & Brighton Festival’s community work such as the Umbrella Club, which provides live art experiences for these children. Proceeds were split, with 80% going to Chestnut Tree House and 20% to Brighton Dome.. This painting is made from coloured polyester – placed, poured and painted onto board; an experiment in application and removal. It was started in 2014 and completed in April 2016.
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