{"title": "Hill Drawings by Melvyn Robinson", "start": "2026-09-16T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-11T00:00:00Z", "place": "Cecil Sharp House", "address": "Regent's Park Road 2, NW1 7AY London", "price": "Free entry", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of paintings called \"Hill Drawings\" is shown at Cecil Sharp House, with free entry. The artist behind it is Melvyn Robinson, and the works draw on the style and landscapes of chalk hill figures. His paintings use a drawing style inspired by hill figures such as the Cerne Abbas Giant in Dorset and the Uffington White Horse in Berkshire, along with other Celtic, Viking, and Anglo-Saxon sources, while depicting contemporary landscapes. The paintings are accompanied by poems and folksongs.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hill-drawings-by-melvyn-robinson-60504/", "official_url": "", "image": "", "dates": [{"start": "2026-09-16T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-11T00:00:00Z", "place": "Cecil Sharp House", "address": "Regent's Park Road 2, NW1 7AY London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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": "Town and Country", "start": "2026-10-06T19:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-20T17:00:00Z", "place": "Bar Gallery", "address": "Bride Lane Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 8EQ", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["diy/printmaking"], "description": "An exhibition of works by Peg Morris, an artist who specialises in etching and also makes mezzotints, lithographs, collagraphs, Tetrapak prints, monotypes and watercolour paintings. Her work is rooted in observation and drawing, and since moving to the Surrey Hills in 2021 after thirty years in London she has drawn inspiration from the ancient trees and trackways of that landscape. The exhibition features pieces from before and after this move, showing the shift in focus of her work from town to country.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/town-and-country-74842/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f97c45c60d041937fc2c5b8509a891c851f8a0934543955358f6cdc0f3f9333c-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": "Half Term Sketching Station in the Painted Hall", "start": "2026-10-24T10:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T17:00:00Z", "place": "Old Royal Naval College Visitor Centre", "address": "King William Walk", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ornc.digitickets.co.uk/category/61042", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing", "occasion/half-term"], "description": "Half Term Sketching Station in the Painted Hall is a self-led family activity during half term: sketchbooks and pencils can be borrowed to sketch in the Painted Hall while taking in Thornhill's masterpiece. It is run by the Old Royal Naval College, with family sit and sketch prompt cards on hand to help unlock the hall's stories and spark inspiration. Visitors can also design their own dove for the Peace Doves installation coming to the Painted Hall later this year. The resources are available throughout Painted Hall opening hours on a drop-in, first come, first served basis.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/half-term-sketching-station-in-the-painted-hall-37526/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/307014e94193e5f40293dc67c727813bed8ae0e895218e0574c2b501abfed2c7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Dreaming the Landscape - Ronnie Hackston art exhibition", "start": "2026-11-03T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-15T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Woodfield Pavilion", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/mixed-media"], "description": "An art exhibition titled 'Dreaming The Landscape' by Ronnie Hackston. The exhibition focuses on landscapes real, imagined, dreamed and remembered, from distant vistas and hills to mysterious forests, suburban gardens and cityscapes, exploring layers of history and the effects of light, weather and time. Ronnie Hackston is an artist and photographer, originally from the North-East of England and based in Streatham since the 1980s, who works in a wide variety of media from acrylics and oils to handmade prints, photography and digitally manipulated imagery.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dreaming-the-landscape-ronnie-hackston-art-exhibition-42656/", "official_url": "https://www.thewoodfield.org/whatson-1/dreaming-the-landscape-ronnie-hackston-art-exhibition", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f47d1d26c17fe034f60dd716190bd31e00bbcd08c40ea5d4e5f0a4a8a36a830e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Clare Granger Parallels", "start": "2026-10-21T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "place": "Cricket Fine Art", "address": "Park Walk 2", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/figurative-painting"], "description": "'Parallels' is a solo exhibition of paintings by Clare Granger at the London gallery Cricket Fine Art, showing works in oil on canvas such as 'Three Palm Trees' and 'Punting'. 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": "Why Constable Didn't Give Up Figure Painting", "start": "2026-11-03T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Courtauld Institute of Art", "address": "Strand, WC2R 0RN London", "price": "Free, booking essential", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://myaccount.courtauld.ac.uk/18991/18995", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "A lecture titled 'Why Constable Didn't Give Up Figure Painting' given by Nicholas Robbins, Lecturer in British Art at University College London. It reflects on John Constable's work from the 1830s through the less well-known aspect of his figure drawing and painting, including his visits to the Royal Academy's life drawing class. The lecture explores how Constable sought the origins of landscape painting in the life class's spatial dynamics, and also examines his printmaking, exhibition paintings and 'Lectures on Landscape'. Organised by Professor Steve Edwards of the Manton Centre for British Art at the Courtauld, it is part of 'Generation Landscape', a three-year programme with the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/why-constable-didnt-give-up-figure-painting-35439/", "official_url": "https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/why-constable-didnt-give-up-figure-painting/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/461ea255afd1db982c3771738f82db9ff50f25514209e1e2380555715463ddd1-1200.webp"}, {"title": "aRTy Works", "start": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-20T00:00:00Z", "place": "Arts Depot", "address": "Nether Street 5, N12 0GA London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.artsdepot.co.uk/visit/booking-information/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "aRTy Works is a free exhibition displayed on the cafe exhibition wall at artsdepot, with no booking required. It is presented by Rosanna Taylor, a local Finchley artist and long-standing member of Finchley Art Society who has painted all her life. The exhibition is a collection of the many artworks that have inspired her along her life's journey. She has no preference for any medium, choosing between oil, acrylic, pencil, charcoal and watercolour according to what the subject suggests.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/arty-works-73809/", "official_url": "https://www.artsdepot.co.uk/exhibition/arty-works/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7856cdf3426f686107c5f709fb5cb194f2a73883c901088ada2b837e54496877-2000.webp"}, {"title": "In Provence and Southern France", "start": "2026-09-29T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-02-28T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Academy of Arts", "address": "Piccadilly, W1J 0BD London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://shop.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/all-artworks", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["diy/printmaking"], "description": "A free selling display of prints and paintings shown in the Belle Shenkman Room in the Keeper's House of the Royal Academy of Arts, with all works available for sale. It features works by Dame Barbara Rae DBE RA, made after visits to Ménerbes, Maubec, Vaucluse, Campagnac and Alayrax in Provence and southern France. The artist, who has travelled widely for inspiration, explored the culture and history of the landscape, from its towns and vineyards to its sunflower fields. The display runs from 29 September 2026 to 28 February 2027, and visitors who are not members can enquire at the membership desk to view it.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/in-provence-and-southern-france-38255/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7ee24d195441fbf6f15e09319aa2c294e380865054be4fcfc8ea9ffc80e1054c-600.webp"}, {"title": "L.S. Lowry RA (1887-1976) An Exhibition and Book Launch", "start": "2026-10-09T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Crane Kalman Gallery", "address": "Brompton Road 178", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.cranekalman.com/exhibitions/66/works/artworks-10256-laurence-stephen-lowry-a-corner-shop-1943/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of paintings by L.S. Lowry RA held to mark the publication of the 4th edition of 'L.S.Lowry: A Biography' by Shelley Rohde. The gallery shows works spanning the artist's career, from early portraits and scenes to landscapes and industrial views. It also recalls the gallery's long friendship with Lowry, beginning when he bought a picture at its second exhibition in 1949.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ls-lowry-ra-1887-1976-an-exhibition-and-book-launch-35462/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/37eed4bbf4d5996078e07fa6b3287bd447e50e8062432dbe12d4e2df0386a0e1-1200.webp"}, {"title": "GERHARD MARX | Landscape would be the wrong word", "start": "2026-10-14T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Everard Read", "address": "Fulham Road 80, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "An exhibition of artworks built from maps and plant material, titled 'Landscape would be the wrong word', shown at the Everard Read gallery in London. It is the first exhibition there by Gerhard Marx, a South African artist who fragments and reassembles maps and draws with grafted and embedded plant fragments. The works question how maps and drawings shape how we see the world, and explore landscape drawing made from within the landscape itself. The exhibition runs from 14 October to 7 November.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/gerhard-marx-landscape-would-be-the-wrong-word-36032/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/596b2fa9be7ff860c0af97ce6093bcd02a094d9b03801e5039f72727d2abd0e4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Darkness Never Lasts – Collective Drawings", "start": "2026-10-07T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-01T00:00:00Z", "place": "Hundred Years Gallery", "address": "Pearson Street 13, E2 8JD London", "price": "£200", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "An exhibition of collective drawings made in monthly open sessions at the gallery, where participants drew with charcoal on large sheets of paper while electronic music played. Behind it are the gallery's residency with musician Cos Chapman, whose live improvisation guided the sessions, and visual artist and performer Jo Roberts, presiding in her role as The Librarian. The drawings move from dark masses surrounding human figures and despairing hands toward coloured, hopeful forms, and the works reflect the suffering of the Palestinian people and a wish for a peaceful, equalitarian solution. Each selected drawing is sold at the same price of £200, with half of the proceeds donated to Medical Aid for Palestine, a scheme that has so far raised £8,500.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/darkness-never-lasts-collective-drawings-36564/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/10fc6918b15c0f711f3d6bd048c28baef1ffc29dd6683f255292becf580241fa-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Chris Rivers: Legends in Higher Places", "start": "2026-10-08T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Pontone Gallery", "address": "Newman Street 74а, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["diy/printmaking"], "description": "\"Chris Rivers: Legends in Higher Places\" is an exhibition at Pontone Gallery showing the artist's new hand-finished limited edition prints. Chris Rivers draws on his iconic foundational series, bringing together celestial creatures and tumbling astronauts amid pulsating clouds of intense vaporous colour. The collection features the first cherub editions in five years and marks ten years of his painting. Every print purchase also gives a chance to win one of twelve original oil paintings on paper, each limited edition running to just 20 copies.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/chris-rivers-legends-in-higher-places-41920/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/60c949799bb9cc47d29522b35063acce58d19073c65ff16a37ca420aec50092b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Dominic Myatt: Scree Slope", "start": "2026-10-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Gazelli Art House", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "\"Dominic Myatt: Scree Slope\" is a solo exhibition of new and recent paintings on canvas at Gazelli Art House. The artist behind it is Dominic Myatt, born in 1993 in Leicester, a multidisciplinary artist inspired by visual fragments of everyday life and the energy of the city. His works show recognisable objects such as lamps, horses, hands and spoons as dark line drawings hovering over gestural patches of colour, riffing on the idea of animated cartoons. Full of playful humour alongside unease and threat, the paintings invite the viewer into a game of looking and deciphering.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dominic-myatt-scree-slope-41427/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/25e4f1f7ef8d261e49f91df70fad329a9f2a11d411a6249c3f082c21b33ec9ec-1200.webp"}, {"title": "R&F Mo: Woandering", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Oliver Projects", "address": "Grove Vale 49, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "A solo exhibition by the South London-based artist R&F Mo, titled 'Woandering', held at Oliver Projects. Mo's practice spans drawing, painting, printmaking, sewing and sculpture, with fantastical figures moving through imaginary landscapes while exploring identity. The exhibition shares its name with the artist's recently published book on drawing, which Mo says unites the physical and mental states of a person in motion and thinking. It is her first solo exhibition in London, and a closing talk with artist Ansel Krut takes place on 21 November.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rf-mo-woandering-37547/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/253daa08814cb13a59c8d7c8410050ae993055c2170c9f72cc7c88ac36185f85-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Big Draw: Drawn Together", "start": "2026-10-31T11:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Wallace Collection", "address": "Manchester Square, W1U 3BN London", "price": "Free (limited places, allocated first-come, first-served on the day)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://wallacecollection.digitickets.co.uk/tickets", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "A drop-in drawing event where visitors add their own designs to a collaborative landscape in the Great Gallery, experimenting with pattern making alongside an artist. It is led by artist Grace Holliday and is part of this year's Big Draw. All materials are provided, places are free but limited and allocated first-come, first-served on the day, and it is for ages 5+ with children accompanied by a supervising adult.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-big-draw-drawn-together-39899/", "official_url": "https://www.wallacecollection.org/whats-on/events/the-big-draw-drawn-together-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3c7615fbc8c6e0802ffe3a103aa4f818a17b744b1cfaa440d92d7bc7e0263650-1200.webp"}]}