Something to listen to in the studio … new podcast each month… painters talking about their relationship with colour - as a material, physical, emotional, sensory, symbolic and colour as memory. Every painter I’ve spoken with has such a fascinating and unique connection with colour and paint!
Check out painters - Ruth Calland, Mallory Page, Charley Peters, Marius von Brasch, Jenny Eden, Elizabeth Rose Langford, Erin Lawlor, Siemon Scammell-Katz, Rema Ghuloum, Miranda Boulton, Simon Callery and Sarah Needham talking - link in bio
Supported @aceagrams
#painters #paint #painting #pigment #colour #color #chroma #hue #artinterview #inthestudio #ageographyofcolour #ruthphilo #podcast #artpodcastblog
Lovely that ‘Canopy’ will be shown in CAS’s @colchesterartsociety exhibition Carry on Constable that opens this Saturday 9 May 2026 with a party from 12-2. Show continues until 17 May at the Granary (NT) Flatford, Suffolk, CO7 6 UL, 10-4
Image: Canopy, 30 x 30, acrylic, water and graphite on canvas, 2026
#constable #constable250
I’m very pleased to be part of
_CONTRARIWISE opening tomorrow, Thursday 7 May 2026, 6-9 pm at Studio 1.1, 57a Redchurch Street, Shoreditch, London, E2 7DJ
7 - 31 May
“if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.” Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass.
Contrariwise is the first exhibition of the refreshed studio1.1 @studio1.1_london in partnership with Sluice @sluice__ To mark this coming together, we’re celebrating the communities that support our respective initiatives, presenting an exhibition drawn from Members (studio1.1) and Friends (Sluice).
Running artist-led projects has always required a Willingness to believe in unlikely things: that spaces will survive, that conversations will continue, that artists with very different approaches but bound by a shared ethos can flourish together. Collaboration itself can feel contrary - improbable, occasionally illogical - yet it persists.
This exhibition gathers works that sit beside one another without demanding agreement. Different voices, materials, and intentions coexist here in productive tension.
Participating artists:
@domingoarjonilla@julie_caves@deepa.chudasama@colecorner@jamesdearlove_art@liz_elton@gobetween_projects@donnellpatrick@ruthphilo@marion_piper@markscottwood@shawn_stipling@sharon.swaine@davidwebbpaintings@mswiftyart
#contemporaryart #londonexhibitions #firstthursdays
The Icelandic Embassy in Copenhagen have reprised the exhibition “Postcards for Seyðisfjörður” an exhibition held at LungA school in Seyðisfjörður in Iceland May 2025.
It opened at Embassy of Iceland in Copenhagen Strandgade 89, DK-1401 København K, last night and runs from 18 April until 4 June 2026. The Gallery is open Monday- Friday, closed at weekends.
The exhibition originally formed part of Sluice @sluice__ expo 2025 ‘Worldbuilding’ in Seyðisfjörður. It was reprised initially at the Icelandic Embassy in London in November through to December 2025.
Postcards reflect cultural and interactional enactments of contemporary globalisation, the transient mementos of travel. Dieter Roth played an important role in the cultural life of Seyðisfjörður. He also painted on postcards.
H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G asked artists to obverse the once common practice of sending a postcard from a place visited. A postcard of Seyðisfjörður to Seyðisfjörður. A postcard of itself to itself but altered / adjusted / intervened by artists who may not have travelled to Seyðisfjörður before.
The image used for publicity purposes is of a Postcard by Rita Donagh. Rita’s postcard contains photographs of Richard Hamilton and Dieter Roth by Maria Gilissen Broodthaers. The date of the photographs is 1976 and they appear with the ‘autobiographies’ at the end of the catalogue entitled ‘COLLABORATIONS OF CH. ROTHAM’ copyright: richard and dieter, published 1977.
H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G are delighted that a number of other artists have taken part in this iteration of the project bringing the total number to 150.
H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G are Ian Boutell, Philip Cole, Patrick O’Donnell and Stig Evans.
Images:
Ruth Philo Postcard for Seyðisfjörður
Invitation to exhibition
Artists in the exhibition
Exhibition in Copenhagen & Opening
H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G - Ian Boutell, Philip Cole, Patrick O’Donnell and Stig Evans.
Opening at the Icelandic Embassy, London
Studio … WIP, experiments with colour … restraint and freedom - need more of that - freedom that is! Summer’s in my studio even if it’s not quite here outside haha
Delighted to have ‘Waiting Rooms: Yellow, featured in Rise Art’s current Curator’s Picks by curator Laurel Bouye. Thanks @riseart
Ruth Philo ‘Waiting Rooms: Yellow’ 50 x 50 cm , oils & graphite on canvas
/collection/1313/curators_picks
#painting #abstractart #contemporaryart #artcollector
Happy International Women’s Day!
Here’s a few of my favourite women in Rose Wylie’s fabulous retrospective ‘The Picture Comes First’ @royalacademyarts that I saw on Friday
#iwd #women #rosewylie
Enjoyed ‘Howard Hodgkin: In a Public Garden’ @howardhodgkin at Pitzhanger Manor @pitzhanger on until 8 March. Lovely to spend time and reconnect with his paintings and prints and see the exhibition and works placed in the house.
‘ I want my pictures to be things. I want them to be made up of marks that are physically and individually self-sufficient.’ Howard Hodgkin
#painting #howardhodgkin
Ruth’s Colour theory workshops were a great success! Three weeks exploring colour and the current exhibition East Anglian Abstract 🎨
Keep an eye on our website for future workshops in metal and drawing and more!
🔗 website link in our bio
Lovely to see the install shots of my work in ‘Anglian Abstract’ at the Minories, Colchester. Big thanks Christian @christianjago for the brilliant photography!
The exhibition celebrates the legacy of modernism in East Anglia through a curated selection of contemporary artists working in abstraction, with work from three key phases of legendary abstract artist Margaret Mellis’ career as starting points.
The show continues until 22 February with work by:
Amanda Ansell, lan Boutell, Simon Carter, Matthew Chambers, Prunella Clough, Peter Collingwood, Liam Hennessy, Clare lles, Margaret Mellis, Ruth Philo, Marion Piper, John Plowman, Ron Sims, Telfer Stokes, Molly Thomson, Lu Yu
Theo has spent the last three weeks exploring colour at @ruthphilo colour theory workshops on a Wednesday evening!
The group has looked at colour palette, abstraction and personal relationship with colour. All inspired by the Anglian Abstract show at The Minories Gallery.
🔗 We run a regular program of workshops. All listed on our website.
A fascinating and wide ranging talk about the RCA Colour Library by Neil Parkinson, the Colour Librarian @royalcollegeofart for the Colour Society of Australia @colour.society.australia this morning. Big thanks 🙏
