Francis Kyle Gallery

Events at Francis Kyle Gallery

• Anna Wimbledon at Francis Kyle Gallery

  Art

  1 Oct 2012 to 31 Oct 2012

  Anna Wimbledon was born in Swansea in 1974 and educated at Central St. Martin's College of Art and Edinburgh College of Art. In 1996 she participated in Yale University Summer School of Music and Art, going on to win Andrew Grant Travel Scholarship to the United States. Subsequent prizes include John Kinross Travel Scholarship and Sir Robin Phillipson Memorial Medal. Esteemed since graduating as a portrait painter, with many commissions of single and group portraits to her credit, Anna Wimbledon sees herself as a painter of figures in the broadest terms, working with energy and bravura preferably on a large scale to create compositions around friends and acquaintances characterised by a sense of drama and latent tension and sometimes an ironic homage to master painters of the past. Represented by Francis Kyle Gallery since 2001, she has participated in the theme exhibitions Roma (2003), Lair of The Leopard: twenty artists go in search of Lampedusa's Sicily (2005), Everyone Sang: a view of Siegfried Sassoon and his world by contemporary artists (2006) and Rodina: Twenty five artists from the West winter in Russia (2008). First one-person exhibition with Francis Kyle Gallery 2004.

• Gerald Mynott at Francis Kyle Gallery

  Art

  1 Dec 2012 to 31 Dec 2012

  Gerald Mynott was born in London in 1957, son of Derek Mynott RBA, NEAC, and educated at Reigate College of Art and Design, where he studied heraldry, calligraphy and illumination, graduating with the highest marks ever recorded at the College. After working for three years as a Herald Painter at the Royal College of Arms, he studied at the Künstlerhaus in Vienna in 1979, returning for his first one-person exhibition with Francis Kyle Gallery, A View of Vienna, in 1980.

• Heather Pocock at Francis Kyle Gallery

  Art

  1 Feb 2012 to 29 Feb 2012

  Heather Pocock was educated at St.Albans College of Art and Sheffield College of Art, gaining a travel bursary there to study in Italy, where she focused on the artists of the early Renaissance. She went on to take a postgraduate degree at the University of London. From 1978 onwards she has divided her time between painting, travelling and teaching, initially working for several years as a fitness instructor at an Outdoor Adventure Centre.

• H R Bell at Francis Kyle Gallery

  Art

  1 Aug 2012 to 31 Aug 2012

  H R Bell was born in Streatley-on-Thames in 1976, great-granddaughter of Frank Gascoigne Heath, a noted painter of the Newlyn School known in his day as the ‘sunshine artist’. In 2000 she graduated from the Courtauld Institute with a first class honours degree in history of art, having specialised in Russian painting and sculpture in the twentieth century. She went on to study at the Surikov Institute in Moscow (2002) and the Repin Academy of Fine Arts in St Petersburg (2003). Since 2004 Bell has held exhibitions in Henley-on-Thames, Winchester and Truro and has also shown in New York. Represented by Francis Kyle Gallery since 2008, she was a major participant in the Gallery’s 2009 autumn theme exhibition, That gong-tormented Sea: contemporary painters explore the idea and the reality of Byzantium, in preparation for which she spent five months in Istanbul. First one-person exhibition with Francis Kyle Gallery Spring 2011.