We are an artist-led gallery, exhibiting well-established and up and coming artists. Alongside exhibitions we hold regular art classes and special events.
the gallery commission is 33% (please add this to your price)
work must be ready to hang
no clip frames are accepted
all works are left at your own risk.
To apply please send a photograph of your work with title, size, medium and price to thelovelygallery@gmail.com
If you are in the first hundred applicants we will email you delivery dates and payment details. The gallery reserves the right not to accept any works which are deemed unsafe or offensive.
Looking forward to seeing your work and another great show !
Sculptures and Paintings by Stephen Lewis and David Webb
10-26 July 2026 PV 9 July 6-9pm
Assembly explores the relationship between the sculptures of Stephen Lewis and the paintings of David Webb in terms of colour, shape and scale. Taking subject matter from a wide range of sources, both could be said to assemble in their chosen medium; something of the language of collage – hard edges, silhouettes; and lyrical and strange forms.
25 June – 5 July Private View 25 June 6-9pm Thursday to Sunday 12 – 6pm
Liz Keyworth is a contemporary artist, based in London. Her long and prolific career with strong roots in the landscape, flora and fauna has led to her exuberant paintings which operate in the space between nature and abstraction. She likes to play with this ambivalence leaving open the possibility for interpretation.
Books, cups, posies, painted cloth, hand mirrors, silk, organza, anemones, hairclips. These objects are the constituent parts of Emma Somerset Davis’ fifth show at The Anna Lovely Gallery, now showing with her daughter and fellow painter Madeleine Jacob. Both painters’ work investigates place, femininity and the small-scale.
Emma’s work is in oil and gouache painting, dealing with the interstitial space between subject and object. Her figurative gouache paintings document wildflowers kept from walks on the Sussex Downland and Weald, meticulously arranged with domestic objects. A painted dress depicts moments from walks along the Adur river. Her abstract oil paintings are similarly attenuated to strong, inarticulable feeling, registering their shape and colour like television static on canvas.
Emma Somerset Davis attended Royal College of Art, Chelsea College of Art and Camberwell School of Art (Painting). She is interested in how painting explores and depicts feminine performativity. Before establishing her independent painting practice, she worked as lead artist in 1990s experimental art/architecture collective FAT, developing their renowned postmodernist artworks. She lives and works in West Sussex. Her work is held in many private and public collections.
Madelaine Jacob works in painting, video, performance & text. She is also a critic, writing for ArtReview and Architecture Today. Her current series of work is focussed on spectacle and vulnerability, using collected stills from late twentieth century BBC costume dramas. She is due to begin her MA at the Slade School of Fine Art in October.
London-born painter, Arnold Dobbs, has built an extensive body of work over his prolific career spanning six decades. It includes mainly abstract pieces and some figurative work.
This exhibition offers a glimpse into my practice that resists neat categorisation. Together my new work hangs alongside a small selection of pieces from the last 25 years created in my early days at APT Studios (Art in Perpetuity Trust), Deptford, where I still work. None of the older pieces have been previously exhibited.
While the range of work may appear eclectic at first glance, a consistent thread runs through my practice. Each piece begins from intuition rather than plan, allowing the work to evolve through gesture, emotion and expression. The diversity of approaches is informed by an instinctive desire to test what painting can hold.
The multi-talented artist Gabrielle Bradshaw is exhibiting at the Anna Lovely Gallery 13-30 November 2025 Private View 14 November 6-9pm
Gabrielle trained at Camberwell School of Art winning the SOGAT82 Award in her second year and leaving with a First Class Honours degree in Fine Art Sculpture. She continued her studies at the Rural Development Centre in Salisbury completing several courses in Blacksmithing and honed her welding skills working for a year in the metal shop of the National Theatre.
We are pleased to be exhibiting work in the gallery this year and to welcome you to the Private View and Garden Party on Friday 12 September 2025, 5 to 8pm.
Watercolour is an unpredictable medium but it doesn’t have to be scary. In this one day course I will demonstrate some of my own working methods. I will show you some techniques for working ‘wet on wet’ and some dry brush techniques.
Anna Lovely Gallery has invited Trevor Burgess to hold a solo exhibition to mark his 60th birthday. “Back Stories” takes a reflective look back at his journey as an artist.
Trevor Burgess has a long association with the Anna Lovely Gallery and was one of the artists in the very first show when the gallery opened in 2014. He is known for his paintings of everyday urban life and markets around the world, usually using his own snapshot photographs as a source material.
+ Ambreen Hameed speaks about Trevor Burgess’s paintings (see below)
Tessa Holmes – Print making James O’Hara – Digital Drawing Sophie Harris Taylor – Photography Jill Rutter – Ceramics Thomas Gale – Drawing/Painting Curtis Donavan – Painting Kate Newington – Painting Magdalena Michliak – Textiles
Matthew Bateson experiences something of a haunting during the process of painting. He starts the works in a very open, abstract and exploratory way – just pushing the paint around with his brush on the canvas, allowing forms to evolve and interact and letting different colours resonate and bleed into one another. There is no pre-planning or guiding under-drawing to map his terrain.
Matthew Bateson The MP’s Convention
At some point, the abstract painterly process begins to take its own pictorial rhythms and specific qualities of light, atmosphere and emotional tone begin to pervade the spaces. With each work, accidental marks and a strata of residual pigment establish a ground. Spectral contours of a particular landscape or figurative form emerge almost alchemically from within the materiality of the paint.
We are pleased to be Exhibiting work in the Gallery this year and welcoming you to the Private View and Garden Party on Friday 2nd of September 2022 6pm -9pm
Within the Garden of Hope and Dreams is an exhibition of Emma’s paintings, drawings and sculpture, made through her recent performances in relation to a series of landscapes. A live performance will take place on the opening night which will be screened throughout the duration of the show.
The Exhibiting Artists were selected from our annual Open show during the Sydenham Artists Trail. Artists were selected from each Medium and also a Young Artist Category was created this year.
Artists:
Cath Dupuy – Photography
Alistair Payne – Sculpture
Janne Cornish – Ceramics
Garnet Frost – Ceramics
Wendy Straw – Textiles
Ruby Lewis – selected Young Artist
Pippa Stacey – Glass
Luke Duke – Watercolour
Michael Bob – Digital prints
Najaf Syed – Painting
Nick Richards – Painting
The Selection Committee Included:
James Hodgeson, Director of Sydenham Arts
Bruce Harrison, Representing the Sydenham Artists Trail
Artist Julie Held, Member of The London Group, The Royal Watercolour Society and The New English Art Club Mall Galleries
Artist Peter Clossick, Member and Past President of The London Group and Member of The New English Art Club Mall Galleries
The Celebration of Venus and Gardens exhibition was itself celebrated by a Meet the Artists afternoon on Saturday. There did seem to be a large contingent from Camberwell School of Arts!
“Installation and sculpture are at the core of my practice and each site brings new challenges and possibilities. The shed at the end of the Anna Lovely Gallery garden was built alongside the original Pharmacy and medicinal garden. Many of my installations incorporate acrylic mirror into a site to explore the boundary at which fragments of real space can be subtly shifted into an illusionary space; something that appears solid can be transformed into a fragile and unstable state; the moment when what we accept as true slips away and unsettles us.
Creator of the House of Dreams in East Dulwich, Peter gives us a glimpse inside his incredible artistic creation and inspirations. He will present a film, talk and artist Q&A.
The Sydenham Arts Artists Trail are delighted to promote The Anna Lovely Gallery Exhibition for the winner and runner up from the 2020 Virtual Artists Trail – printmaker Lilophilia and painter Kitty Jenkins.
Paul Tonkin studied at Canterbury College of Art, and moved to London in 1973 where he has since lived and worked. He was amongst the first group of painters to show alongside sculptors in the Stockwell Depot shows in the Seventies.
My father, Patrick Lovely, who has died aged 85, was an artist and art teacher whose paintings and drawings, especially in later life, documented the everyday activities of ordinary people, especially in Brixton, south London, where he lived for many years.
His Brixton work focused particularly on the experience of Irish and Windrush communities there, often depicting scenes inside local drinking holes. He won prizes for those paintings, including at the Spirit of London exhibition at the Royal Festival Hall in 1984, allowing him to declare that “my time in pubs was never wasted”.
Irish bar Bow
Patrick was born in Paddington, west London, to Irish parents, Noreen (nee O’Neill), a telephonist, and Thomas, a labourer. He and his brothers, Tommy and Michael, were sent at a young age to be boarders at St Joseph’s Convent school in Burgess Hill, Sussex, from which they twice ran away after being ill-treated by the nuns who taught there.
After returning to London he had a better experience at Camberwell School of Arts Junior Art secondary school (1952-55), which specialised in teaching artistic pursuits alongside normal lessons. He then continued his studies at the painting school of Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts (1955-59).
He married Bel Foulger, a fellow student, in the year he finished at Camberwell.
Soon afterwards, as a conscientious objector to national service, he was compulsorily employed as an animal technician in the vivisection department of the Maudsley hospital in south London. There he was deeply upset by experiments that took place on primates, recording what he saw in a series of paintings and drawings that were exhibited in a solo show at the Piccadilly gallery in London in the early 1960s.
Around the same time he also had exhibitions at the Young Contemporaries gallery, the Guggenheim Collection and Morley College.
From sketchbooks (click to enlarge)
Over the ensuing years Patrick mostly worked as an art teacher, starting out at Dunraven school in Streatham, south London (1966-72), before a spell as an art instructor at Wandsworth prison (1972-74) and then many years at Clapham Park Partially Sighted school. However, at various times he was also a wrestling instructor and a postman, and for a time ran an antique shop in Brixton, where he once sold a harmonium to Paul McCartney.
He and Bel kept goats, chickens and rabbits in their Brixton garden, socialising with their friends from diverse walks of life, including a host of musicians.
In 1985 they moved to the beautiful Provence village of Seillans in France, where Patrick continued to paint and to document life through his art.
Bar Charlot Seillans
Bel died in 2020. He is survived by their children, James and me, five grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and his brothers.
Peter Clossick studied at Camberwell School of Art and Goldsmiths College during the early 1970s and has been engaged in professional fine art practice since.
