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Eileen Cooper OBE RA CENTRE OF STAGE 3 drawing... 56 x 76 cm
As featured within our current, Winter Group Show, which is open reopens from tomorrow January 4th, until it closes on January 26!
Eileen Cooper was born 1953 in Glossop, in the Derbyshire Peak District. She studied at Goldsmiths College from 1971-1974 being in the cohort of students who were selected by Jon Thompson. Senior members of staff at that time included Bert Irvin RA, Basil Beattie RA and Michael Craig Martin RA. She went on to study Painting at the Royal College of Art under Peter de Francia, graduating in 1977 and soon began to exhibit her work.
During the 1980s she became a major figure, well known and regarded for her strong and passionate figuration. Cooper has always taught part time in numerous institutions including St Martins, Royal College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. She became a Royal Academician in 2001 and served as Keeper of the Royal Academy between 2010 and 2017, making her the first woman in the history of the Academy to do so.
Sometimes described as a magic realist, Eileen Cooper brings an unapologetically female perspective to her subject-matter, which encompasses sexuality, motherhood, life and death. Her richly diverse images, simultaneously bold and tender, reveal a range of feeling that is both deeply engrossing and readily accessible, yet still very much part of contemporary art practice.
Throughout her career Cooper’s work has contained a strong autobiographical element. However, her vision is always more allegorical than anecdotal, her concerns and experiences as relevant and timeless as those of the human spirit itself.
A monograph on Eileen Cooper RA written by Martin Gayford was published in May 2015. Eileen Cooper: Between the Lines is available at the RA Shop. In 2015 the exhibition Hide and Seek: Drawings by Eileen Cooper RA was held at the Royal Academy
Tuesday - Saturday 10am till 4pm or by appointment at Linden Hall Studio
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Tomorrow, January 4th, The Winter Group Show reopens to the public!
This exhibition, featuring 100 artists across the entire spectrum of contemporary art is the biggest show ever put together at the gallery! Thank you to all of those who visited and left such positive feedback in December, we very much hope many more will pass through our doors in January!
Gallery Open - Tuesday - Saturday 10am till 4pm
... Exhibition running until January 26

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Humphrey Ocean RA
PICTURE BOOK... Humphrey Ocean RA 2014 ink on paper 40.4 cm x 33.5 cm
Humphrey Ocean studied at Canterbury College of Art from 1970 to 1973. During that time, he played bass with Kilburn and the Highroads, who supported The Who on their 1973 Christmas Tour. His first major solo exhibition in 1984 at the National Portrait Gallery, London was followed by shows at Tate Liverpool, Whitechapel Gallery, London and, in 2003, how’s my driving at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. His series of new portraits, A handbook of modern life, was shown in 2013 at the National Portrait Gallery, and in 2018 he had an exhibition of sculpture and works on paper, I’ve No Idea Either, at Sims Reed Gallery, London.
Other projects include Big Mouth: The Amazon Speaks, his book with anthropologist Stephen Nugent about their visit to Northern Brazil; Today’s Nude with Artangel for Channel 4 in 2009; and Art Everywhere with the Art Fund in 2013 (which showed 57 of Britain’s favourite paintings on billboards). In 2015 he showed in The 50th Anniversary of the British Road Sign at the Design Museum, London. In 2016 he wrote and presented The Essay for BBC Radio 3 and received an honorary Doctorate from the University of Kent. In 2018 he has featured in Drawing Together at the Courtauld Gallery, From Life at Royal Academy of Arts and appeared on the BBC Radio 4 series Only Artists. He also hung Gallery 4 of the 2018 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
He is the Royal Academy’s Professor of Perspective.
Humphrey Ocean lives and works in London
PICTURE BOOK & another work called BLACK EVERLY by Humphrey Ocean RA are both included within our Winter Group Show which runs at the gallery until January 26.
at Linden Hall Studio 32, St Georges Road Deal Kent CT14 6BA
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Happy New Year from all of the team at Linden Hall Studio, with all our best wishes for 2019!
We very much look forward to seeing you back at the gallery, for our exciting new programme of exhibitions and events!
Our current exhibition, The Winter Group Show, reopens on January 4th - running until January 26th.

Open until 2pm today, Christmas Eve! There is a also a large bottle of sherry behind the desk, for a potential glass of Christmas cheer.... . The Winter Group Show reopens after Christmas on Friday 28 & 29 December, 11am till 2pm . #lindenhallstudio #wintergroupshow #merrychristmas

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Robert Persey
RESOLUTE... Robert Persey mild steel forged and welded 35 x 56 x 31 cm
Featured in the Winter Group Show at Linden Hall Studio
Robert Persey is a sculptor who studied at St Martin’s School of Art in the 1970s and then worked at Greenwich Studios in London before moving to Kent in the 1990s
He has had solo exhibitions in Coventry and Milton Keynes but his work was shown for the first time in the New Contemporaries exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1977. Many group exhibitions followed, including the 12th Annual Stockwell Depot Show; Have You Seen Sculpture from the Body? at the Tate Gallery and Escultura Nueva, Reino Unido in Madrid
His work is driven by a desire to understand and express a strong feeling of the physical in as full a spatial and three-dimensional context as possible
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Open until 4pm today, before reopening from 11am till 2pm on Christmas Eve!
Winter Group Show at Linden Hall Studio
... Running at the gallery until January 26 Merry Christmas!
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As well as our revolving exhibition programme, the gallery is very proud to be able to represent the great British photographer Harold Chapman.
The collection which can be viewed by appointment, ranges from Les Halles pre destruction, Paris in the late 1950's, Kings road, London in the 1960's as well as the iconic Beat Hotel period.
Our archive are the final photos, printed and developed by HC throughout his over 7 decade career as a working photographer.
... These are four images from The Beat Hotel Collection, featuring amongst others Alan Ginsberg & William S Burroughs.
HAROLD CHAPMAN 1950 - 58 The Beat Hotel Giclee print 33.5 x 41 cm (approx) POA
Gallery Open Tuesday - Saturday 10am till 4pm Christmas Eve - 11am till 2pm info@lindenhallstudio.co.uk 01304 360411
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Peter Clossick
Featuring ’Selfie; and one other work, within the Winter Group Show at LHS
... Selfie Peter Clossick 50 x 64 cm oil on board
“speak of the uncertainties, anxieties and mysteries of existence of our time. He makes us feel the present, the here and now of our being in the world, the joy and the anguish of life in moments of heightened sensation. This is never a simple description of the outer skin of things, but rather a multi-layered, multi-toned articulation of physical realities.”
- Journalist and Author, Corinna Lotz
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. He is a member and Past President of The London Group an artist collective established in 1913 and also a member of The New English Art Club under the Federation of British Artists. He exhibits regularly both here and abroad.
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The Winter Group Show is available for public viewing all the way up to Christmas Eve! Our biggest show to date, with a full range of styles and media from 100 different artists!
I very much hope you are able to view this exciting and eclectic show!
Winter Group Show... at Linden Hall Studio
Tuesday - Saturday 10am till 4pm or by appointment
Running until January 26
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Tom Phillips CBE RA A HUMUMENT P198: THE STARLET archival digital print with silkscreen 2017 edition 75...
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#artistoftheday . Shelia Volmer RAP painted and raw steel... 22 x 23 x 10 cm . With less than a week till Christmas, take a break from the mayhem of the high street to enjoy our current, Winter Group Show . This exhibition features 100 artists from all over the world , across the entire spectrum of contemporary work . Tuesday to Saturday, 10am till 4pm . #lindenhallstudio #lhswintergroupshow #painting #sculpture #drawing #ceramic #print #photography
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On Saturday, December 15th Linden Hall Studio celebrated its 4th anniversary!
After 11 Shows around 60 Artists, 5000 emails and plenty of phone calls later, we have reached the end of another year at LHS! Culminating in our Winter Group Show, the biggest we have ever put together at the gallery, featuring 100 artists across the entire spectrum of contemporary art , from New York to New Cross!
Over the course of the year we have had group shows , two handers and solo ventures ...at the gallery. As well as all our exhibitions, our events have been a wonderful new addition, trying to become a centre for the visual arts with drawing classes, masterclasses, monthly film screenings as well as pop up events, such as the macmillan coffee morning which raised 5000 pounds, as well as becoming a face of Southeastern rail!
Next year we hope to expand on all of these, so please stay tuned with what we are trying to do at LHS!
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and I look forward to seeing you all in February for the Liz Mott photography show, Another Real Deal
MGC
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Clyde Hopkins (1946 - 2018) PAPRIKA COLLAGE PAINTING acrylic on canvas... 30 x 25 cm
Clyde Hopkins Obituary - The Guardian by Mali Morris RA June 2018
'The painter Clyde Hopkins, who has died aged 71, produced fine works that were exhibited in various galleries around the UK, as well as in the US and Europe. He was also a visiting artist in many art schools during the 1970s until becoming head of painting, then of fine art, at Winchester School of Art in 1982. From 1990 to 2006 he was head of painting at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, and he retired as emeritus professor at the University of the Arts London.
Clyde’s students adored him: they knew he was a real artist, sensed his deep appreciation of the absurd, and in his company they heard wit, wisdom and piercingly perceptive advice, usually offered with a grin. I taught at many places alongside him, but it was at Chelsea that I fully understood his skill and tact at pulling together the disparate strands emerging in art schools at that time. He saw into us all, without our noticing it, and was gentle with whatever he found.
He was born in Bexhill-on-Sea in East Sussex, to Paul Hopkins, a headteacher, and his wife, Ivy (nee Hill). He went to Barrow-in-Furness grammar school for boys and then took a degree in fine art at Reading University in the mid-1960s.
After graduating, like many of his circle of friends he was a peripatetic part-time lecturer, paid by the hour in art schools and universities across Britain. We travelled the country, visiting fine art departments as far afield as Canterbury and Hull, trying to remember which London station to get to in time on any particular morning. This meant that for half the week Clyde could be in his studio. He and I were studio neighbours in Greenwich, south-east London, for 20 years, and through the partition in the summer months came the sounds of a Test match on the radio, or the music of Glenn Gould or Brownie McGhee.
In those days, before Clyde became the first of our group to take on a “proper” full-time job at Winchester, he was making large, loosely worked, dark paintings, which were shown widely and to great acclaim, including at the Serpentine and Hayward galleries in London. Very gradually these became flatter, crisper, brilliant in hue, with increasingly complex structures, in oil paint applied with obsessive enjoyment.
By the time we moved to new studios in Deptford in 1995, the intensity of his style was absolutely his own, and it became richer and more extraordinary as the years went by.
Clyde is survived by his wife, the artist Marilyn Hallam, whom he married in 1969 after they met as student contemporaries at Reading University.'
As a gallery, we are very proud to be featuring two works within our Winter Group Show by the late, great, Clyde Hopkins.
Winter Group Show at Linden Hall Studio
Running until January 26 2019 Tuesday - Saturday 10 am till 4pm
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CHRISTMAS OPENING HOURS
December / January
December 24th - 11am till 2pm... December 25th - 27th CLOSED December 28th - 29th 11am till 2pm December 30th - 3rd CLOSED
Winter Group Show at Linden Hall Studio runs until January 26th! We are particularly proud of this exhibition, showing works across the entire spectrum of visual art - please do check it out whilst you have the chance!
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Girl In A Big Coat Ania Hobson 2017 oil on canvas 95 x 74 cm... . In 2018 Ania Hobson's painting 'A Portrait of two Female Painters' won the Young Artist Award with the BP Portrait Awards, National Portrait Gallery. . Featured in the METRO and The Times Newspaper today ; the BP Portrait Awards is now open at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh . We are delighted to be featuring two works by Ania within our Winter Group Show at Linden Hall Studio, which runs at the gallery until January 26 2019 . Tuesday - Saturday 10am till 4pm or by appointment . #lindenhallstudio #exhibition #painting #portraiture #painting #oilpainting #figurativeart #contemporaryart #modernart #london #bigcoat #portraitpainting #portraiture #show #femaleartist #selfportriat #artist @ Linden Hall Studio
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#artistoftheday . Mali Morris RA Four Square Circle 2012... Acrylic on paper 19 x 23 cm (in frame 38 x 42 cm) . After seeing two of her larger works within ‘Harder Edge’ , a group show at Saatchi Gallery last night ; it seemed appropriate to share one of two small works by Mali Morris RA within our current, Winter Group Show . Mali studied Fine Art at the Universities of Newcastle upon Tyne and Reading. She has exhibited internationally since the late 1970s in over 35 solo shows, and is represented in public and private collections worldwide. In 2010 she was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts . Mali has exhibited with Linden Hall Studio in May 2015 within 8 Connected , May 2017 with sculptor Stephen Lewis in PIER, a two person sculpture and painting show as well as The London Deal, Linden Hall Studio’s invited exhibition at The Building Centre, Bloomsbury . #lindenhallstudio #lhswintergroupshow #newexhibition #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #painting #art #artist #painter #exhibition #sculpture #sculptor #ceramic #print #drawing #photography #groupshow
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It was wonderful to see the works of Dominic Beattie, Olivia Bax, Mali Morris RA, Stephen Lewis & Tess Jaray RA in the ‘Harder Edge’ group show at Saatchi Gallery this evening . Delighted to be featuring these established artists within our current Winter Group Show at Linden Hall Studio, which runs until January 26 . Stay tuned for details of PUNCH, a joint show of Olivia Bax & Dominic Beattie at Linden Hall Studio, 2019....... . See both shows whilst you have the chance! . #lindenhallstudio #lhswintergroupshow #saatchigallery #harderedge @ Saatchi Gallery
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Christmas is racing towards us at an alarming rate!
When the shopping, wrapping, cooking and cleaning gets too much, escape down the rabbit hole at LHS ; our Winter Group Show has 130 pieces to ponder, enjoy and escape with!

There is nothing more to add. Would love to show here with local art group SEAS. 2018.....

The best of contemporary British art. Fine place. B.

Popped into Linden Hall to collect my beautiful print (by Leonard. Whybrow), & came out with a receipt for a Germaine Dolan. Am still shaking & flushed ( & that's not from the gym work out we'd done before). This is a great exhibition, in a wonderful Gallery. Go & see it, lovely team working there too.

One of the most varied and informative, independent galleries in Kent, a must visit if you are in the area.

Myles is the best man who makes me see art.

I am looking forward to showing my work here in October 2015. It's a surprising and superb space with great light just off the High Street. Surely it is one of the best independent galleries in Kent.