We're preparing for the next Dulwich Artist Open House - and due to our previous venue being under redevelopment, we've relocated this year to the lovely exhibition space at Lowie in Herne Hill. 

The show will be open from Tuesday May 3 to Sunday 15 May at 115 Dulwich Road, London SE24 0NE.  We will have a showcase of a number of new prints by Anna Marrow, Kate Banazi and Kevin Dutton photography. 

Click here for a map to the show. 

Closest tube station is Brixton, Overground Herne Hill.

Lowie is situated opposite the beautiful Brockwell Park. 

Anna Marrow's screenprints proved very popular at the recent Affordable Art Fair, with the Diving Board edition of 25 hand finished screenprints now sold out. We are pleased to say that there are 4 Artist Proofs available which will be available online on Thursday 14 April. To pre-order a copy then please get in touch with us now. 

Call Gina Cross at +44 (0) 7950 415422 

We are delighted to be presenting a new series of prints and originals by Anna Marrow this week at the Affordable Art Fair.

Anna Marrow is a graduate from Central Saint Martins and UWE Bristol who divides her working time between her kitchen table and Spike Island Print Studios, Bristol.   

Marrow’s work is grounded in a comprehensive understanding and love of line, form and colour. Her work always starts with a simple sketch, which progresses to more detailed drawings, colour washes and then adding more details with biro, pencil, inks and gauche. 

Ideas for Marrow’s eclectic work starts with research into scenes, prompted by small inanimate objects perhaps found in thrift stores or car boot fairs. Initial sketches of architecture or scenes which inspire. The Lido series and swimming prints were borne from the artist’s love of the modernist architecture found in her local area, this led to further research into modernist backdrops which then worked as a narrative for a range of prints. 

Marrow’s trademark use of bold colour can often be a starting point for works, to the audience it may seem the colour is a changeable layer, a variation in detail but for the artist it can start a mood or narrative to work from a starting point rather than an end variation and can change the whole feel of a piece. To turn drawings into prints Marrow will scan images and bitmap them or simply photocopy them then constructing a screen print from them. Sometimes she will collage in old photographic material or add painterly marks or graphic lines, it is these free flowing details or finishing touches which add a further dimension to Marrow’s work. Whilst a range of prints may be in a limited edition, they are often hand finished with individual details which adds a touch of luxury to the range, meaning your investment in a limited edition can actually be a one-off. 

The surprising hand finished elements to each piece are an important addition to her work; Marrow, when asked, describes her work as surprising, optimistic, bold and often humorous. Marrow cites Sonenzimmer, Blexbolex, No Brow and Paula Rego, as her influences. GAS has seen Marrow’s work progress and gain in depth over the years and are proud to have her as a longstanding artist in our flock.

Current exclusive new work will be on show this week at the Affordable Art Fair, Battersea on Stand C1. Prices range from £80 to £2500 

We are delighted to be showing the beautiful intricate drawings by Natalie Ryde next week at the Affordable Art Fair, Battersea - Stand C1. 

Natalie Ryde's drawings appear as abstracted, meshed forms floating over the surface of the paper, sometimes tethered to the edges, often isolated and adrift. Distorted structures within geometric shapes and patterns suggest a visible energy disrupted by an underlying force.

Ryde employs a free-hand, systemic drawing technique of interwoven lines that is visually resonant of her ancestors' work in the textile industry. Her practice often references the patterns and repetitive actions that are common to human routine and movement. This series of work has in common the form of the circle or loop, emphasising the cyclical nature of life, the repeated experience familiar and yet different each time. A feeling of time passing and human energy is present in the labour-intensive drawings. The abstracted forms do not offer us instant answers about their origins, instead encourage a contemplative and personal interpretation.

Her recent work alludes to making a deliberate attempt to perform an action in an irregular or opposite manner only to realise that the brain has subconsciously returned to its default process. Ryde contemplates divergent forces existing in equilibrium and considers quiet voices and subtle emotions in her compositions.

Following on from her 2015 exhibition The Way which explored the notion that adhering to a set course or system allows one to wander from the path; her new collection of work was produced in a period of experimentation that deliberately sought to expand all aspects of her working methodology. This expansion in process has conversely led to a refinement in both the form and composition of her works. The process of stretching Tosa Washi paper onto canvas is a recent development in the artist's work as she seeks to layer her drawn networks of lines with washes of colour.

Natalie Ryde's drawings are influenced by a flotsam of everyday observations from geometry and found patterns to scientific diagrams and organic forms. Her systemic cause and effect drawing process offers a thread that leads us back to the roots of these structures. Shapes and patterns are often broken or incomplete at their source and the process of drawing netted forms in response to these altered guidelines has the effect of mending the original. The repetition of the interwoven lines undulating over the surface and disappearing into voids is captivating and has an almost meditative effect. Step forward and the very human quality of the hand drawn line and minute decision making is clear to see and the drawings appear as a series of moment to moment actions.

We will have a number of these pieces available to view at our stand. For further information please contact Gina Cross +44 (0) 7950 415422 or art@gasart.co.uk

We are really delighted to welcome new Artist Marleen Pennings to Gas Gallery. Marleen who also works under the name of Stroke a Bird studied Fashion Deisgn and Illustration in Rotterdam and graduated with honours in 2002. Stroke a Bird’s colourful and playful works are borne from the artists' love of colour, texture and pattern.

Marleen's process mostly starts from collages taken from images, and then working within her own memory to build layers of intricately hand-mixed colours, often with very precise recipes made in small quantities which are then noted at each conception. This way of working enables the artist to create many different shades of the same colour, bringing depths and transparencies to each layer. Her process is painstaking and at times laborious. She cites her way of working as being almost layers of decisions, which colours, sweeps of paint, textures and abstract images work well together. So much of Marleen's work could be described as trial and tribulation, the artist creates many pieces and discards many, “it could be after just one sweep of paint or after 500 sweeps” and this attention to detail to what makes the grade and what is “kept” exhibited and sold is evident in her finished pieces. 

When Marleen is asked about the key factors in her process she tells us that time itself can be her most valuable tool, she starts pieces only to then purposefully take a step back, then returning to re-evaluate and re-immerse herself within a work when reinvigorated after some time away from it. Marleen is a keen music lover and music always accompanies her whilst painting, she recently attended a concert in Germany, Die Goldenen Zitronen, which has influenced her recent body of work. This all encompassing love of music is evident in her free-flowing works, and the brushstrokes in her paintings to us look as though they have music bellowing out from each image. 

GAS’s favourite work by Marleen Pennings is ‘Follow the Yellow’;  an uplifting abstract with so much soul. So often we are given abstract works to consider which are purely decorative fillers, something for interior designers to use to bring a colour scheme together, and whilst we can see Marleen’s works are beautifully decorative, we can also see the intense painstaking process that has been journeyed by the artist to create the work; and this in turn adds beauty to these pieces for us.

To view the currently available paintings by Marleen Pennings visit her page here: 

To arrange a viewing by appointment, contact Gina Cross +44 (0) 7950 415422 or art@gasart.co.uk 

We are pleased to announce the release of four new works by Delphine Lebourgeois.

French born Delphine created these pieces in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris, as a response to her feelings as a woman, a parent, a French citizen and a human being. Her initial response was to create the two prints, Superheroes I and Superheroes II, both works representing her feelings as a parent put to paper, the thought that you must do your best in your role in the face of such a complicated and seemingly negative backdrop.  To protect your children, to keep them safe in a world that seems so unstable and to do all this whilst battling your own demons, an underprepared, untrained ‘superhero.’ 

This resonates with so many of us, and here we see why art is so important in our society, it affords us the opportunity to explore our thoughts, fears and often our failings. Delphine’s response to an attack on western free speech is poignant for so many of us who condemn such violence, it reminds us of our responsibility to the younger generation. In Superheroes II we see the mother cradling her child, with a cigarette in her fingers, not exactly dressed for battle, with stockings and heels, floral tattoos on her arms, she looks shocked as though she was happily going about her liberal life, before she was made to don her symbolic superhero attire, this mother didn't sign up to be a saviour but will try her damnedest anyway.

Delphine’s love of elaborate decoration, attire and headdresses have been toned down dramatically for these works, perhaps due to the sensitive nature of its narrative, and also to be direct with the symbolism within each piece. 

We don't think Delphine is overtly trying to be controversial in the way she addresses her response to the attacks, it is a raw and honest appraisal of the fear she feels having bought a child into the world and her questioning if she is able to step up to the role of protector. 

The two smaller original works ‘Bye Bye Mummy,’ and ‘Belonging’ are a more generalised comment on the vulnerability of youth and inexperience, and the games we play as adults. In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks, Delphine looks into the fragility of innocence and how young people in their desperate search to belong are turning to an extreme form of comfort. By turning the mask wearing heroes from Superhero I and Superhero II into the captors in these original pieces, we see what can make them appear to be exciting to young minds, but the detail on their matching uniforms give a clue to what lays ahead and the trusting wave back to us the viewer is a stark reminder of our obligations to our children. 

These works can be viewed at the upcoming Affordable Art Fair, Battersea 10-13 March 2016

Click on each image to view full information on the artwork.

For all enquiries please contact us at art@gasart.co.uk or call Gina Cross +44 (0) 7950 415422

We are showing at the Affordable Art Fair Battersea next week and have a number of free tickets to give away.

Tickets available are for the Wednesday PV from 6.30 - 9.30 pm and for entry to the show over the Thursday - Sunday.

To register for a free ticket please email us at art@gasart.co.uk

 For full details of the show please visit their website here

We're returning to the very stylish Mid Century Modern show this coming Sunday 28 February. For one day only, from 10-4pm we will be showing a preview of new work that will launch at the Affordable Art Fair in March and will have a selection of the new Kate Banazi Perspex screenprinted boxes. More information on the perspex will be in our next newsletter so do sign up for news at the bottom of the page. 

Full details of the show are here: http://modernshows.com/the-shows/dulwich-feb-2016/

New to the Gallery this month are two extraordinary new prints by Delphine Lebourgeois in a new series entitled 'Superheroes'. We will be launching these at the forthcoming Affordable Art Fair, Battersea next month alongside a series of new original drawings. 

Further information will be coming soon about the themes behind this series and what inspires Delphine. 

View Delphine Lebourgeois prints here:

Natalie Ryde's solo show of her intricate and minimal drawings are now on show at Carousel London, 71 Blandford Street, London W1 and viewings are currently available at the following times: 

Tuesday February 16th  |  3 - 7pm
Thursday February 18th |  3 - 7pm
Friday February 19th  |  11am - 7pm
Saturday February 20th  |  3pm - 7.30pm

Natalie will be at the venue to meet with viewers but please call ahead to the Carousel office beforehand to check availability as this is a meeting area and times can change.

Carousel London Office : 020 7487 5564 or contact us directly on 07950 415422

View Map for directions to Carousel