HUGO GRENVILLE

Monday 12th - Saturday 17th November, 2007

Josie Eastwood Fine Art at Gallery 27, 27 Cork Street, London W1S 3NG

Monday 12th	11am - 5pm
Tuesday 13th	10am - 8pm
Wednesday 14th	10am - 6pm
Thursday 15th	10am - 6pm
Friday 16th	10am - 6pm
Saturday 17th	10am - 1pm

Private View Evening
Monday 12th November, 2007
6pm to 8pm
By invitation only

For all enquiries please call 01962 776677 before the exhibition opens, and during the exhibition 0207 4372812 or 07957 232353.

Price range is £1,000 to £14,000, with many new oil landscapes around £2,500.


This is Hugo Grenville's first one man show with Josie Eastwood Fine Art, having exhibited successfully in the West End for several years, and with Wally Findlay Galleries in New York and Florida. Included in the show at Gallery 27, Cork Street, will be landscapes from around England, France and Greece, along with canvases of interiors with decorative figures, and fine charcoal drawings. Grenville refers to himself as a Romantic, but acknowledges a fascination with pattern and colour that places him in the tradition of Matisse. The figure subjects and the everyday objects that surround them in his painting express joy in life, light and colour. Less evident, but equally important, is a feeling of intimacy that recalls Matisse's contemporaries, Bonnard and Vuillard. Like theirs, Grenville's paintings evoke a sense of something dreamed or remembered rather than directly observed. Layers of feeling peel back to disclose a spiritual intensity.

James R Borynack
President Wally Findlay Galleries, USA


Hugo Grenville b. 1958

Although he first exhibited in London at the Chelsea Arts Society at the age of 15, whilst still at Eton, it took him another 14 years to become a full time painter. After leaving school he travelled the Hippy Trail to India, ran out of money, joined the Coldstream Guards and served as an officer in Northern Ireland, West Africa, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) during the Civil War as an Aide-de-Camp to the C-in-C British Army of the Rhine, during which time he painted whenever possible, and studied part-time at Chelsea School of Art and Heatherley’s.

Working first in advertising and then as an art dealer, he finally submitted to the need to paint full time in 1989. Since then he has held eleven one man exhibitions (including seven at Messum’s in Cork Street), has painted portraits of leading figures, including the late Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Runcie and the counter-tenor Michael Chance in the role of Orpheus at the ENO, has been an Official War Artist in Bosnia, has written regularly for The Artist magazine, and lectures in London and at his summer school on Colour and Twentieth Century Painting.

Solo Exhibitions
2007	Josie Eastwood Fine Art, London
2006	Wally Findlay Galleries International, New York
2000-05	Messum’s, London
1999	Messum’s, London
1997	Messum’s, London
1995	Oliver Swann Gallery, London
	China Club, Hong Kong
1994	Oliver Swann Gallery, London
1992	The Newbury Museum: Featured Artist of Newbury Festival
	Smith’s Gallery, London
1991	New King’s Road Gallery
Group Shows
2006	Josie Eastwood Fine Art
2007	Wally Findlay Galleries International, Palm Beach
	Art London International Art Fair
During the past 20 years he has also exhibited at
Royal Society of British Artists
Royal Institute of Painters in Oil
Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour
The Arts Club
Numerous other galleries

Selected Collections
Edinburgh City Council
The Worshipful Company of Ironmongers
The Ministry of Defence
The China Club, Hong Kong
The Tresco Estate
Pembroke Management
The Duke of Devonshire
Searcy’s
Duke’s Hotel, St James’s
The Earl of Verulam

Numerous corporate, institutional and private collections in UK, USA, Canada, France, Hong Kong, and Australia

Selected Commissions
Official War Artist in Bosnia during the final phase of the Balkans War.
Duke of Devonshire: painting for the tercentenary celebrations at Chatsworth.
English National Opera, painting of Orpheus and Eurydice.
Millenium painting for the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers.