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GBS Fine Art represents artists who, irrespective of fad and fashion, produce work of clarity, accomplishment and resonance across a range of mediums.

Our gallery in Somerset is on the first floor of a Georgian townhouse overlooking Wells Cathedral.

18/11/2025

GBS Fine Art are pleased to announce a new exhibition of complementary work by two photographic artists, Emily Allchurch and , opening 26th November.

Entitled 'A Distant Mirror', it consists of Allchurch’s highly praised recent series 'The Six Seasons', her personal interpretation of Bruegel’s famous suite of paintings, and 'Xenia', the new series of elaborate still lives by Martin Prothero, his hommage to the Dutch genre paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries. This will be the first time Allchurch’s series will have been exhibited at full size in the same room — as were the original Bruegel paintings in Flemish merchant, Nicolaes Jonghelinck’s Antwerp townhouse — and takes place prior to an exhibition in the spring of next year at the National Trust’s Upton House in Warwickshire.

We will be hosting a couple of private lunches with the artists in the gallery; please DM for further information

Emily Allchurch
The Six Seasons - Autumn (after Bruegel), 2024
Archival C-type print

05/07/2025

Last chance to see Harry Cory Wright's solo show EAST at the gallery...
Some of the first pictures I developed in black and white were of the ; black and white photographs, grainy and rich, looking from the in Scotland west across the sea.

More than forty years later this new series comprises a set of photographs and reliefs taken from the other side of The Atlantic looking back towards Europe from the island of on the west coast of the USA.

Through my life I have taken many pictures of dawn through to sunrise. I am entranced by the shift of light from darkest blue/black to the shimmer of daylight through yellows, oranges and pinks, all this time with a deep sense of prospect of what is ahead.

I photograph inland too of course but given the choice I would gravitate to the coast every time. The wide expanse of space, air and water is countered nicely by the specific and singular location that you find yourself. Its always easy to find such places on the map.

In the last few years, making applied work in response to the photographic process I have been working on a series of relief panels using pastel on board. These are intended to stand alone, though of course they work in conjunction with the views of the sea from which they came.

The photographs explore the light, sense of space and volume over the sea whilst the reliefs are physical manifestations of the experience of looking deep into that space.

, EAST (2025)

From left to right:
East. Atlantic Ocean I. 7.04 am 2024
Archival pigment print from 8 x 10 inch negative; 83 x 100 cm

In Landscape #732 2025
Dry pastel on board; 60 x 55.5 cm
Framed: 67 x 62.5 cm

East: Atlantic Ocean II. 6.44 am 2024
Archival pigment print from 8 x 10 inch negative; 83 x 100 cm

https://cms.artsy.net/show/gbs-fine-art-harry-cory-wright-east

13/06/2025

ARTIST TALK: JEFFREY BLONDES
Greater Light, Nantucket
Saturday, June 21, 2025 | 4:30 – 6:00 PM

Having completed a new (41-hour) film in Nantucket, Massachusetts, over the course of 2023-2025, we are pleased to announce that Jeffrey Blondes will be returning to the island to give a talk and discuss his practice and the film on Saturday 21st June, the Summer Solstice, at Greater Light, Nantucket’s answer to Cambridge's Kettle’s Yard. If you do happen to find yourself in Nantucket then (!), or indeed know friends that might be interested, please RSVP via the link below (or via the QR code).

The film, 41° North: Views of Nantucket, will be on display at Greater Light from 11am-4pm June 18-21 and 25-28

https://www.gbsfineart.com/new-events-1

With thanks to the Nantucket Conservation Foundation for their generous support and access to filming locations.

17/05/2025

Welcome to the weekend Photo London with - among others - new works from Martin Prothero, Xenia I and Xenia II.

Xenia (ξενία) is an ancient Greek concept that translates to "hospitality," "guest-friendship," or "ritualized friendship". It signifies a reciprocal relationship between host and guest, rooted in generosity, gift-giving, and mutual respect. It was considered a fundamental value in ancient Greek society and a moral obligation, as well as a political imperative.

Continuing on from his Chiarascuro series, Prothero uses long exposures and literally paints his subject matter with the light source during the exposure.

25/04/2025

Cathy de Monchaux’s 1984 Unicorn, 2025 has arrived.

First conceived in 1984 and long kept hidden in her London studio, this powerful, pony-sized form has been reimagined for today — reborn through cutting-edge photogrammetry, 3D printing, and bronze casting as an edition of 12.

We’re thrilled to unveil it for the first time at EXPO Chicago — and it’s already a showstopper.

Born in London in 1960, de Monchaux has built a celebrated international career: a Turner Prize nominee (1998, for her solo show at Whitechapel Gallery), Fellow of the Royal Society of Sculptors, and widely exhibited at major institutions including Tate, the Hayward Gallery, the Pompidou Centre, the Hirshhorn Museum, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her work is held in leading public and private collections across the world.

1984 Unicorn, 2025 is a statement for now: bold, alive, unforgettable.

08/03/2025

“If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint”. - Edward Hopper

Rob Reed
Shortcutting #22 (2022)
Oil on canvas; 24 × 30 cm

Rob Reed
Shortcutting #18 (2020)
Oil on canvas; 29 × 39 cm

Harriet Mena Hill
The Aylesbury Fragments; Taplow rising
Acrylic on salvaged concrete; 34.5 x 25 x 5 cm

14/02/2025

“Silence is so accurate.”
― Mark Rothko

Emma Tod's 'Ring', was inspired by a variety of disparate sources including images from the James Web telescope, Rothko’s Maroon series, and the idea that light is simultaneously a wave and a particle.

Ring (2024)
Oil on wooden panel; 25x20cm

07/02/2025

Our Winter Group Show...

seen here:

26/01/2025

Last day of the London Art Fair ... We will be here until 5pm at

Works shown here (and at the fair) by Jenny Pockley:

Tower Bridge - mauve and steel blue 2024
Oil on canvas; 110 x 130 cm

Empire State - teal 2024
Oil on copper; 40 x 30 cm

Palace of Westminster - alizarin 2024
Oil on canvas; 110 x 130 cm

Westminster - dark opal 2025
Oil on copper; 40 x 50 cm

24/01/2025

Three tondos from Gill Rocca's Figment series...

Gill Rocca's Figment Series began in 2010 and is ongoing. Painted in oil onto birch ply tondos, the works vary in size from the smallest at 20cm diameter to the largest at 80cm.

While the philosophical and aesthetic properties of a circle are well established, for Rocca the form accentuates the liminal space between her intentions and what subconsciously emerges during the process of painting. The tondos – and indeed all the paintings – are meticulously layered with thin coats of gesso and sanded back prior to the application of multiple layers of thin oil glazes that slowly and gradually build up the image.

From Left to Right:

Figment CXV 2025
Oil on birch ply; 40 cm diameter

Figment CIX 2024
Oil on birch ply; 30 cm diameter

Figment XCIX 2024
Oil on birch ply; 30 cm diameter

at London Art Fair

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