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 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.
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)
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.
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.
Martin Fidler uses his ever changing observations and interpretation of landscape, coast and city. His ideas and practice have been represented in painting and sculpture exhibitions since his post graduate experimental painting course at The Slade University College London.
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.
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