{"title": "Jandyra Waters: A Life in Painting", "start": "2026-10-02T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-27T00:00:00Z", "place": "Cecilia Brunson Projects", "address": "Royal Oak Yard, SE1 3GD London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "An exhibition of paintings by the Brazilian artist Jandyra Waters, showing works from the 1960s to the early 2000s. It is the first solo show in London dedicated to Waters (1921–2025), a singular figure in Brazilian post-war abstraction who remained independent of both Concrete and Neo-Concrete art. Her paintings trace an evolving language of colour, form and space, where hard-edged geometry is set in motion by overlapping planes, tilting shapes and vivid colour. A Life in Painting pays tribute to an artist who kept painting for nearly seven decades and published three volumes of haiku.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/jandyra-waters-a-life-in-painting-69633/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/879751e8c4c15b577da41b4c33f0a17e346131cc52aa01ed464de9347f72161b-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-02T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-27T00:00:00Z", "place": "Cecilia Brunson Projects", "address": "Royal Oak Yard, SE1 3GD London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Pulse, Pause, Repeat", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Lisson Gallery", "address": "Bell Street 27, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "An exhibition of drawings, paintings and sculpture by the artist Carmen Herrera, spanning the final decade of her life. Curated by art historian Marie Perennès, it presents her late works not as epilogues but as the vital culmination of an eighty-year enquiry into line, form and colour. Herrera, born in Havana in 1915, was a one-time architect who moved from lyrical abstraction to the hard-edge style of geometric abstraction, achieving widespread recognition in the 2010s.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/pulse-pause-repeat-41637/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/550f7199dc92bf89cf5d8dfe941cc0b1d5e09f7d5d92f4fd3685c7152486b423-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Aligned – a Solo Show by Ayush Sinha", "start": "2026-10-29T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-04T00:00:00Z", "place": "Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan", "address": "W14 9HE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "\"Aligned\" is a solo art exhibition of paintings shown at an art gallery in London. It is by the artist Ayush Sinha, whose works explore the quiet power of geometry through rhythm, balance and colour. Circles, lines and intersecting forms become symbols of connection, energy and contemplation, inviting viewers to find harmony within structure and stillness within movement. Together the paintings form a meeting point between abstraction, spirituality and the human experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/aligned-a-solo-show-by-ayush-sinha-34977/", "official_url": "https://www.bhavan.net/events/aligned-a-solo-show-by-ayush-sinha/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4b31d415b2ee3b81edb862899236894f6ee5e36084c88470af43caf2115c5ecc-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Ha Chong-Hyun", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Lisson Gallery", "address": "Bell Street 27, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "A panel discussion at Lisson Gallery reflecting on the concurrent exhibition of Ha Chong-Hyun and his six decades of pioneering work. Organised in partnership with ArtReview, it considers the development of the Seoul-based artist's practice and its place in the broader history of postwar abstraction. Speakers include Sook-Kyung Lee and Wenny Teo, with moderation by Mark Rappolt, Editor-in-Chief of ArtReview.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ha-chong-hyun-37023/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d4292ec4eb37d5a0f97bab91c1a993bdcd3c7922e43cff897c85392c6a6ba730-2000.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": "IN BETWEEN THE LINES A dialogue between the past and the present with works by Caziel and Isabelle Nothomb", "start": "2026-10-17T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Whitford Fine Art", "address": "Duke Street St James's 6, London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/abstract-painting"], "description": "IN BETWEEN THE LINES is an exhibition at Whitford Fine Art pairing works by Caziel and Isabelle Nothomb in a dialogue between the past and the present. Curated by An Jo Fermon, it brings together two artists who, working in different centuries and countries, each stripped away noise to focus on raw sensory perception, space and being. Caziel's abstract painting and Nothomb's ceramics share broken lines revealing light and lacerated effects, inviting viewers to reflect on time, space, free will and consciousness. The show illustrates the gallery's dedication to promoting art that offers a soothing humanistic experience.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/in-between-the-lines-a-dialogue-between-the-past-and-the-pre-76920/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/94f740ecf759fd12e54bbd6d578a970589346e956b63f5da54350d3b9c468ad5-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Exhibition: Venetta Nicole – A Language of Colour and Form", "start": "2026-11-01T11:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Valentines Mansion", "address": "", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/abstract-art", "occasion/black-history-month"], "description": "An exhibition at Valentines Mansion presenting Venetta Nicole's work, part of Vision Redbridge Culture and Leisure's celebration of Black History Month in partnership with Redbridge Council. 'A Language of Colour and Form' gathers Nicole's intuitive work across abstraction, portraiture and architectural forms, turning personal experiences, memories, cultural heritage and emotional landscapes into vibrant, layered compositions. Nicole is a London-based Caribbean artist and ex-Ilford resident who graduated from Middlesex University in 2007, winning the Women in Art Prize Susan Angoy Award (2022) and Tim May Memorial Award (2026). Her show explores identity, belonging, resilience and memory, inviting viewers to bring their own interpretations to colour and form as a language of freedom.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/exhibition-venetta-nicole-a-language-of-colour-and-form-79125/", "official_url": "https://valentinesmansion.com/events/exhibition-venetta-nicole-a-language-of-colour-and-form/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/57b8a5fb793cb69fda064f2a9fa561294297581c50f60388e55dbbe29151dc25-1200.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": "SURFACE TENSION BRITISH PAINTING IN THE 1990s", "start": "2026-09-18T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "place": "Ben Brown Fine Arts", "address": "Brook's Mews 12, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "SURFACE TENSION: BRITISH PAINTING IN THE 1990s is an exhibition at the Ben Brown Fine Arts gallery in London. It examines how a small group of British painters survived and even flourished in '90s Britain, when the art world was dominated by the conceptual hegemony of the YBA movement with figures like Hirst, Emin, Whiteread and Lucas. Working apart, these painters arrived at strikingly common ground: a shared preoccupation with surface, gesture and the physical act of painting, shaped by the cultural pressures and siege mentality of their age.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/surface-tension-british-painting-in-the-1990s-41029/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d57c224a153fe41a4bb43fcb42e95fd9fa5ccd1310c7bd1c5ee32cb35af9e832-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Ian Davenport: Reflections", "start": "2026-09-21T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Waddington Custot Galleries", "address": "Cork Street 11-12, W1S 3LT London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "'Reflections' is a survey exhibition of paintings and drawings spanning the late 1980s to the present. It celebrates the career of artist Ian Davenport (b. 1966), showing early experimental pieces made after he graduated from Goldsmiths college alongside the Puddle Paintings for which he is best known. The exhibition marks his 11th solo exhibition with the gallery since his debut show in 1990, and traces his process-led approach, from Erased Lines and Watering Can Drawings to poured colour lines and recent splatter paintings. It is accompanied by a new publication with essays, reviews and a conversation with his brother, writer Philip Davenport.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/ian-davenport-reflections-42787/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a313a11d67eea50f265f4ecca04f3c41ccc46794999d7e37d20afb4ee1b83c68-2000.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": "“Anything Goes” An exhibition of art by Vero – Week 1", "start": "2026-11-03T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "Mosaic Reform Synagogue", "address": "Bessborough Road 39, HA1 3BS Harrow", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://choosemosaic.org/whats-on/book/", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An art exhibition showing work by Vero (Veronica) at Mosaic Reform Synagogue. Veronica paints colourful representational and semi-abstract paintings in pastel, oil or acrylic, some textured with collage and inspired by life or the world around us. She works regularly in her studio, has completed commissions and held solo and joint exhibitions in the London area. She has won awards and commendations for her varied work and hopes visitors find joy in it.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/anything-goes-an-exhibition-of-art-by-vero-week-1-46186/", "official_url": "https://choosemosaic.org/event/anything-goes-an-exhibition-of-art-by-vero-week-1/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/aefdf89af00940f6f1694eb3adf59cb650c105008018882de9c5e852cc512710-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Myth Migration", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "Lisson Gallery", "address": "Bell Street 27, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.lissongallery.com/shop", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/surrealism"], "description": "Myth Migration is an art exhibition inspired by Carmen Herrera's change in style after her move from Cuba to Paris in the late 1940s. It centres on a group of 20th-century artists who moved to spend formative time within new communities of artists and writers, from Mexico City and São Paulo to London and New York. The show groups related works made during and in the decades after World War II, each charting a new geographic or stylistic horizon, including an early, never-before-seen figurative work by Herrera. Featuring artists such as Wifredo Lam, Leonora Carrington, Alice Rahon, Mira Schendel and Chen Kong-Fang, it weaves through movements like Surrealism, Neo-Concretism and Existentialism to trace how each adopted country shaped their artistic practices.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/myth-migration-49193/", "official_url": "https://lisson.com/exhibitions/myth-migration", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bc667706dce00810697881dda2b978b89ac48f0efb0c628ed3d7d666ffd3205f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Allen Jones: In Town Tonight", "start": "2026-10-12T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-12-18T00:00:00Z", "place": "Gazelli Art House", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting/pop-art"], "description": "\"Allen Jones: In Town Tonight\" is a solo exhibition of new and earlier work by the artist Allen Jones, presented at the London gallery Gazelli Art House during Frieze Week. Jones, a British artist born in Southampton in 1937 and a defining figure of British Pop Art, has worked for more than six decades in painting, sculpture, printmaking and photography. The exhibition pairs substantial new work made between 2024 and 2026 with significant pieces from across his career, centring on his investigation of the human figure, performance and the relationship between image and object. At its heart is a new series of shaped canvas paintings whose intense green, yellow and red evoke a theatre, where spotlights pick out performers' bodies observed from opera boxes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/allen-jones-in-town-tonight-41426/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/052305c89a511ba53538c97eb7960d9a52e17c4a9b34c81495894611c5736a5d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Lorena Torres: Un Suspiro Lleno el Mundo", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-21T00:00:00Z", "place": "Beetles + Huxley", "address": "Swallow Street 3-5, W1B 4DE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/painting"], "description": "An exhibition of sixteen new paintings by Colombian artist Lorena Torres, her second solo show with the gallery. Many works were made during her residency at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Senegal, continuing her exploration of magical realism, figure, symbolism and folk cultures.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/lorena-torres-un-suspiro-lleno-el-mundo-41028/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9c64ff379ca505d6076e73bd5c6a15f034d582599b7a4d5bb24b653705555081-2000.webp"}]}