{"title": "Exhibition: Painted Faces", "start": "2026-10-25T16:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T17:00:00Z", "place": "Woolwich Works", "address": "No 1 Street 11, SE18 6HD London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/portrait"], "description": "Exhibition: Painted Faces is the debut solo exhibition of theatrical portraits by Clare Williams, shown in the Visitors' Book Café Bar at Woolwich Works. Drawing on 40 years of working in theatre, the portraits explore a world of artifice where costume and a painted face allow a new story to be told. Williams paints quickly and instinctively onto wooden panels without preliminary sketches, 'becoming' each character before reducing, rebuilding and reconstructing the work over a long process. 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It is her fifth show with the gallery, and the paintings come together from parallel thoughts and observations of lives lived in different parts of the world. Granger takes inspiration from observing people and places far from her rural English life, finding parallels across East and West while exploring colour and the effects of light.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/clare-granger-parallels-35487/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/72911c94c4e6679df579b12e6660e1e9dba4d52a82379c1edbb786d61cf71c46-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons", "start": "2026-07-29T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-08T00:00:00Z", "place": "Pitzhanger Manor House and Gallery", "address": "", "price": "£14 Standard, £7 Students, free for Members and Under-16s", "price_from": "14.00", "price_to": "14.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.pitzhanger.org.uk/book-tickets/?eventid=1001ADGKSHLJDTDBJQTBMGLLJRLBJCMNN", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An art exhibition called Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons, showing 29 new and recent paintings, collages and prints made over the last four years. The artist Clare Woods draws on flowers, still life and the natural world, including plants seen through glass at Kew Gardens and roses inspired by George Orwell's garden. Her works move between abstraction and figuration, mixing vibrant wet-look oil paint with reflections on time, absence and death. The exhibition fills the rooms and galleries of Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/clare-woods-garden-without-seasons-38059/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4605e92ebf31b43e0e9d259a7bc802af008e2bd05df0ea0cd90085f8b70b946e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "CLIVE HEAD: SIMULTANEOUSLY REAL", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-20T00:00:00Z", "place": "Alon Zakaim Fine Art", "address": "Cork Street 27, W1S 3NG London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of new and recent paintings and drawings by a contemporary British artist, shown across two floors of a Cork Street gallery. Its heart is a series of eight large-scale paintings, alongside drawings, works from his Visionary Series and complementary works from the gallery. Together they offer an insight into Clive Head's evolving approach to painting, revealing the processes, themes and visual connections underpinning his work. The show is presented by Alon Zakaim Fine Art.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/clive-head-simultaneously-real-69494/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5bf08f0c958d7c379952836e031163cd17ea73e06f92bd33cd3201a5f56b4946-600.webp"}, {"title": "Thursday Late: Still Life, Then and Now", "start": "2026-11-05T17:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Pitzhanger Manor House and Gallery", "address": "", "price": "Free with general admission; pay what you can for local residents; drawing workshop £14 / £10 for Ea", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.pitzhanger.org.uk/book-tickets/?eventid=1001ADGKSHLJDTDBJQTBMGLLJRLBJCMNN", "category": "tours", "tags": ["art/painting/still-life"], "description": "An evening late-opening at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery built around the theme of Still Life, from past to present, during the final days of the exhibition Clare Woods: Garden Without Seasons. Pitzhanger's Director Rebecca Lyons leads a guided tour tracing Still Life from seventeenth-century Dutch painters to Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and Modern painters through the lens of Woods's works. Annabel Johnson leads a relaxed drawing session inspired by the flowers and objects in Clare Woods's paintings, with materials provided and all levels welcome. Some parts of the evening require separate tickets, including the drawing workshop, which has limited capacity.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/thursday-late-still-life-then-and-now-38066/", "official_url": "https://www.pitzhanger.org.uk/whatson/thursday-late-still-life/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4203136752e4d80497d917d315825ba28d003b8569000d74c57b361b7f42b496-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Dementia-Friendly Workshop: Portraits in Print", "start": "2026-10-30T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Wallace Collection", "address": "Manchester Square, W1U 3BN London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://wallacecollection.digitickets.co.uk/tickets", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/portraiture"], "description": "A relaxed, unhurried afternoon workshop for people living with dementia and their carers or companions. With artist Caroline Dorset, the group looks at well-known portraits in the galleries, including Frans Hals's Laughing Cavalier and Gainsborough's Mrs Robinson, discussing sitters, painters and what poses and clothing can reveal. Back in the Learning Studio, over tea and coffee, each participant recreates a favourite as a mono-print, rolling ink onto perspex and drawing into it, to take home. No previous experience is needed, all materials are supplied, and booking is essential.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dementia-friendly-workshop-portraits-in-print-39896/", "official_url": "https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/events/dementia-friendly-workshop-portraits-in-print/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/31deb9392efef27d751e6c9881575530a1ae9dae0c6325ca5665d3644cfaaca9-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Portfolio Reviews", "start": "2026-07-10T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-22T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Watercolour Society", "address": "", "price": "£145", "price_from": "145.00", "price_to": "145.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketing/portfolio-reviews-with-royal-watercolour-society-artists", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/painting/watercolor"], "description": "Portfolio Reviews with Royal Watercolour Society Artists offers one-to-one portfolio reviews for artists at all stages of their careers, held online via Zoom or in person at RWS Gallery. The Royal Watercolour Society runs it, with its artists — including Lottie Cole, Francis Bowyer, John Crossley, Mark Entwisle, Wendy Jacob and Charles Williams — giving thoughtful, professional feedback in 45-minute sessions. Reviewers discuss the strengths of your work, areas for development, and guidance on presentation, artistic progression and professional opportunities, from exhibition preparation and open calls to residencies and funding applications. Up to 15–20 portfolio images and supporting information are submitted in advance, and bookings are made through the website, with the team arranging a convenient date and time afterwards.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/portfolio-reviews-41996/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b20d7f17dfa415ea08e0536c8314b1f9558e4c60becb8310f700a78e86a828d9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "River Claure", "start": "2026-09-30T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "Gasworks", "address": "Vauxhall Street 155, SE11 5RH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/photography/portrait-photography"], "description": "A residency at Gasworks by the photographer and visual artist River Claure, who makes constructed portraits and magical landscapes. He is from Bolivia, and his work reflects on landscape, Christian iconography, his family's history and his Indigenous roots, often creating with communities and using play to rearrange cultural codes, identities and social expectations. During the residency he plans to develop a series of self-portraits exploring the intersections between biblical iconography and the Latin American colonial photographic archive, visiting archives and museums in London to study the history of portraiture and self-representation. The residency is supported by the Contemporary Bolivian Arts Trust (CBAT).", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/river-claure-41422/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5777c80e20f1ca70654c40cef73a1928090f0b1d2aaaf29d05865f61c8ece1d8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Watercolour", "start": "2026-11-03T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T16:00:00Z", "place": "Claremont Project", "address": "White Lion Street 24-27, N1 9PD London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/painting/watercolor"], "description": "Watercolour is a painting class held in the Upper Hall. Tutor Clare Brookes leads it, introducing the transparency, luminosity, and spontaneous qualities of watercolour painting. The class welcomes all levels, from beginners to those refreshing existing skills.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/watercolour-41211/", "official_url": "https://www.claremont-project.org/event/watercolour/2026-10-27/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/495ed6ce2eb74638ce3796c6ff24f2664eeccbff537dde647395f29ce9f5480d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Art on Your Doorstep", "start": "2026-09-04T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-14T00:00:00Z", "place": "Boston Manor", "address": "Boston Manor Road, TW8 9JX Brentford", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "Art on Your Doorstep is a free outdoor exhibition bringing life-size reproductions of National Gallery masterpieces to Brentford, displayed across the town in fine detail and complete with their frames. It is part of The National Gallery: Art On Your Doorstep, a national touring project taking works from the nation's collection beyond Trafalgar Square to twelve towns across the UK. Brentford is one of those twelve towns, with up to 30 masterpieces exhibited, shaped by this year's Creative Mile theme of 'Love' and by the people, landmarks and history of Brentford. Visitors to Boston Manor House can see three masterpiece reproductions: one by the café terrace and two photo stand-ins inside the House.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/art-on-your-doorstep-35024/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/fc999c3f25e613b04ee7dac017aa6cdd1309692f498f2aea24ec5c49e803c497-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Bright Lights, Big City", "start": "2026-11-11T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-27T00:00:00Z", "place": "Portland Gallery", "address": "3 Bennet Street", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of acrylic paintings by artist Lachlan Goudie, showing London's landmarks and nightlife from Piccadilly Circus to Tower Bridge at twilight. Goudie says that after decades in London he still feels like a stranger there, and that he has tried to express the city's energy, colour and daily drama in these paintings. The show, titled Bright Lights, Big City, is presented by Portland Gallery in St James's.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/bright-lights-big-city-63965/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/588500d6b13a7c872ff0ac94ac62d7ed04461016ca3e7c1a3dd091b593d92511-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Big Draw: Portray your Power", "start": "2026-10-31T13:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Wallace Collection", "address": "Manchester Square, W1U 3BN London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://wallacecollection.digitickets.co.uk/tickets", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "A drawing workshop at The Wallace Collection as part of the Big Draw, held in the museum's Arms and Armour galleries. Artist Marc Woodhead helps participants gather ideas from the armouries through drawing and mark making to create their own powerful, decorative piece of armour. All materials are provided, places are free but limited and allocated first-come, first-served on the day. It is for ages 5 and up, and children must be accompanied by a supervising adult.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-big-draw-portray-your-power-39902/", "official_url": "https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/events/the-big-draw-portray-your-power/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/63523d7bcda50ba01a1eecf145da443347fb6f35d87c4c9ae6385f31dd91a43c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Look, Learn, Make: Papier-mâché Picasso with Katrina Cowling", "start": "2026-11-05T18:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-05T21:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Albert", "address": "New Cross Road 460, SE14 6TJ London", "price": "£30.00 for both workshops", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "https://bowarts.org/shop/", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/sculpture"], "description": "Look, Learn, Make: Papier-mâché Picasso with Katrina Cowling is a two-part creative workshop combining art history, discussion and hands-on making, in which participants create their own papier-mâché vessel or sculptural object. Led by artist Katrina Cowling, it takes inspiration from Pablo Picasso's ceramics, exploring how vessels can become expressive artworks, and also looks at vessel-making by artists including Grayson Perry, Lindsey Mendick and Donald Locke. Participants experiment with painted mark-making, colour and gesture, and take home a painted piece, with the workshop suitable for beginners and those with creative experience. It runs over two sessions, on 5th and 12th November, and tickets cover both.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/look-learn-make-papier-mache-picasso-with-katrina-cowling-35043/", "official_url": "https://bowarts.org/event/look-learn-make-papier-mache-picasso-with-katrina-cowling/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b7a5f2f287d396ecc142f03ad41b47a30a8f9276a8751fe5ad49c713a38c9ed9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Introduction to Painting and Drawing", "start": "2026-11-09T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T20:30:00Z", "place": "art in the docks", "address": "Shackleton Way 25, E16 2XJ London", "price": "Free to join", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An open painting and drawing session at a London art space, welcoming everyone from complete beginners to accomplished artists. It is run by Art in the Docks and funded by Newham's People Powered Places, supported by the Notting Hill Genesis Love While You Live Fund and the Royal Docks Trust. Participants can work on their own projects or join a guided session on techniques led by a professional artist, sharing ideas and helping each other. All you need is your imagination and a willingness to try new ideas.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/introduction-to-painting-and-drawing-40958/", "official_url": "https://www.artinthedocks.com/upcomingevents/introduction-to-painting-and-drawing-f29mt-9sec4", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9c577cb9965733337bd4995d99dcdaf7b41f19e641d206cee96aba289a25e702-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sarah Wimperis Solo 2026", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-18T00:00:00Z", "place": "Beside The Wave", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/landscape-painting"], "description": "A gallery exhibition of new paintings by Sarah Wimperis, running in November. The artist spent recent months travelling and painting, and the collection celebrates colour, the changing seasons and the stories places hold. The works are inspired by the Cornish landscapes near her home and by French scenes from the years she lived there. There is no opening night, but a digital catalogue is available on request before the doors open.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sarah-wimperis-solo-2026-69547/", "official_url": "https://beside-the-wave.co.uk/blogs/exhibitions-events/sarah-wimperis-solo-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/460aa2179c4cdcd0c9f8dc16373f60da73c9e68d4be1712001f94bb54402ac8b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Studio", "start": "2026-10-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-18T00:00:00Z", "place": "Massimo De Carlo", "address": "South Audley Street 55, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "The Studio is a solo exhibition of paintings by the American painter Jonathan Gardner at a London gallery. He takes the artist's studio as his subject: rooms within rooms and paintings within paintings, built from memory, imagination and art history. The flat, clean rooms with colour laid down in blocks nod to Matisse and Magritte, while landscapes with rivers and desert scenes open spaces of solitude. Beneath the art-historical poise, the exhibition holds something like hope shadowed by unease at a deliberate, painterly distance.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-studio-41680/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3e028b4fa2074ea7ca08e23bd838fd3d70465d1e7057b4ba7f18128d37392ecd-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sam Jackson: What Remains of Her", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-05T00:00:00Z", "place": "Pontone Gallery", "address": "Newman Street 74а, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/portrait"], "description": "An art exhibition titled 'Sam Jackson: What Remains of Her' at Pontone Gallery. The artist Sam Jackson paints portraits of queens, princesses and other women of historical note, from Cleopatra to Boudicca to Queen Victoria. Since these women cannot be painted from life, the likenesses are conjured from secondary sources, folk tale and the artist's imagination. The works use a uniform head-and-shoulders format with loose, gestural brushwork, letters and phrases scattered across the picture plane.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sam-jackson-what-remains-of-her-41921/", "official_url": "https://pontonegallery.com/exhibitions/203-sam-jackson-what-remains-of-her/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8348fca0f52edeec6958e15f39280b8040d11c859af1f612354d2a2db88633b8-2000.webp"}]}