The Picture Gallery

CURRENT EXHIBITION

Alan Reullier
The Picture Gallery Exhibition
Friday 20 June to Friday 25 July

Alan Reullier is a visual artist whose work blends industrial experience with creative vision, drawing influence from Arte Povera and Street Art. His artistic journey began in northern Paris, where he practiced graffiti using urban landscapes as his canvas despite limited resources. After joining the French Navy and Air Force for eleven years as a Chief Aircraft Mechanic, Alan honed a precise and innovative approach to his art. His military career allowed him access to materials such as aircraft engine parts, mechanical tools and industrial artifacts which became integral
to his creations.

Alan’s art is aligned with the Arte Povera philosophy, transforming raw industrial components into works that challenge consumer society by elevating their aesthetic and symbolic value. His sculptures and installations preserve the integrity of industrial elements, giving them a new artistic resonance that bridges the technical world with the realm of art. With a deep understanding of these objects, he creates pieces that reveal their structural beauty and symbolic significance.

Through collaborations and acquisitions, Alan has worked with rare materials such as blueprints of iconic automotive brands and automatic doors from Paris Metro Line 1. His work is a poetic exploration of the relationship between humans and technology, elevating everyday industrial objects into profound art that invites reflection on the hidden poetry within the objects shaping our modern world.

 

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RECENT EXHIBITIONS

Paintings and Portraits
Kathy Barker SWA
Monday 26 May to Friday 20 June

Painting is Kathy’s passion and people’s faces and presence draw her in most of all. Her desire to capture an impression, spot particular nuances and a sense of the person’s character brushed onto the canvas is a very rewarding process derived from the relationship formed between artist and sitter.

Kathy trained at Wimbledon School of Art in Fine Art Painting (BA Hons) and Printmaking (MA). She was awarded a studio at the Florence Trust, London, and commissioned to write ‘Drawing and Painting the Clothed Figure’, published by The Crowood Press. As her career progressed she followed her passion for portraiture and studied at the Charles Cecil Studio, Florence, in the classical atelier fashion.

Kathy has tutored for the Postgraduate Visual Arts at West Dean College, the Edward James Foundation and currently tutors at private member clubs. Her work has been collected internationally and been exhibited at the Royal Society of Portrait Painting, the Society of Women Artists, where she is a full member and has just finished the 2025 touring exhibition with Wales Contemporary.

Whilst portraiture still lies at the heart of her work Kathy also paints landscapes, still life and lots of cute pets!

Kathy works from both sittings and photographs that she has taken to suit the client.

 

 

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Dr S D Jouhar FRPS (1901-1963)
Fine Art Photography
Friday 25 April to Friday 23 May

Dr Sartaj Din Jouhar was born in 1901 in Amritsar and, after studying Science at the University of Amritsar, he came to England around 1923 to study Medicine. He started taking pictures in the 1930’s and was a prolific and passionate photographer until he died in 1963. He was known within photographic circles as ‘The Doctor’ and he lectured and exhibited widely both in the UK and worldwide. In 1940 he became a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and in 1944 he was invited to join the London Salon of Photography, at a time when there were only 30 members worldwide.

From the mid-1940’s Dr Jouhar was a strong advocate that photography should be considered as a Fine Art, and eventually he founded the Photographic Fine Art Association in 1961. The P.F.A.A held an inaugural exhibition at The Royal Festival Hall in November 1961. It was the first exhibition ever in the UK that showed photography as a Fine Art.

Many of his original prints are in museum collections and private collections and this current exhibition consists of an eclectic mix of his work.

There are original monochrome pictures printed by SDJ himself in the 1940’s and 1950’s, some of which are signed. Additionally, there are some limited-edition
sepia-toned Estate prints from the ‘Sunlight and Shadow’ series, and some
limited-edition colour photographs created by SDJ using a Polarized Light technique. The limited-edition prints have been produced more recently from the original negatives.

All pictures will be sold with a Certificate of Authenticity.

 

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The Guild for Creative Automotive Art
Friday 28 March to Friday 25 April

The Guild of Motoring Artists (GMA) was established in 1986 as a group of professional and semi-professional artists, who shared a common interest in automotive art. Over the years it has attracted some of the best and diverse worldwide automotive artists through its selective membership, exhibiting around the UK with invitational exhibitions in the USA.

Our fourth exhibition at the Club features work from 13 of our members in a variety of media and styles. You will find work from Jonny Ambrose, Richard Neergaard, Ray West, Steve Goodwin, Jon Stevenson, Anna-Louise Felstead, Dave O’Brien, Martin Smith, David Purvis, Oliver Ray, David Ginn, Gwyn Carter and Greg Stirling on display.

Our objective is to become the one stop for quality creative automotive art. Whether your taste is for traditional compositions, tight representational illustration, loose and wild, abstract, digital vector or
3D sculpture and multi-media, you are sure to find a style that’s right for you within the guild’s membership portfolio.

 

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*Please note that the numbers for each artwork in the gallery above do not correlate with the numbers on the price list.

For further information, or to purchase a piece of art, please email: picturegallery@royalautomobileclub.co.uk.

Gentlemen and Players by William Lansbury
Friday 28 February to Friday 28 March

It is hard to believe when you consider the level of professionalism in modern racing that not so long-ago racing was a game where gentlemen and gifted amateurs could compete on equal terms, in more or less equal machinery, against the ‘works’ teams.

There have always been professional drivers like Stirling Moss and Derek Bell racing in sports car events but if you look at the entry lists for the Mille Miglia and the Targa Florio so many of the drivers were amateurs, perhaps some just happy to be there and others hoping to be noticed by the ‘works’ teams.

I wonder what it was like at The Targa to be practising on the narrow streets of Sicily in a car that would not be out of place at Le Mans – with lorries coming in the opposite direction. Can you imagine modern drivers going to a party the night before a race? In the 1950s the party scene was an important part of
international rallying, pre and post event.

Whoever the drivers were and whoever they drove for they all revelled in the joie de vivre of being there.

Put yourself behind the wheel and glimpse some of these moments in this exhibition.

 

 

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*Please note that the numbers for each artwork in the gallery above do not correlate with the numbers on the price list.

For further information, or to purchase a piece of art, please email: picturegallery@royalautomobileclub.co.uk.

 

30 years of Abstraction by Jonny Ambrose
Friday 31 January to Friday 28 February

Since graduating in fine art sculpture in 1994, Jonny Ambrose has been creating elegant, contemporary automobile sculptures, abstract paintings and trophies (Mille Miglia 2024-present, The Quail Concours USA 2017-2022 and Porsche Motorsport 2022-present).

Clients include Morgan, MG, Porsche Motorsport, Bicester Motion, Octane, alongside private clients worldwide and international collectors. Aston Martin and Porsche in-house media have featured his sought after artworks.

Jonny has exhibited in Paris, California, Stuttgart, London, Glasgow and Frankfurt. In the UK, he has exhibited at the Royal Automobile Club, Sotheby’s London, Goodwood, The Historic Motoring Awards, Hampton Court Palace, British Motor Museum and Silverstone. He is also a Judge at the Royal Automobile Club’s Art of Motoring Exhibition.

This exhibition spans 30 years of creating motoring art, ‘celebrating automotive artistry with graceful abstraction’, inspired by aerodynamic forms, graphic patterns and car details. Artworks range from his 1990’s ‘Circuit Series’ paintings, through to his sculptural series of the past decade, which continue to see him exploring new ways to portray motoring subjects. His minimalist sculptural artworks combine traditional, steambent wood craftsmanship with ‘state-of-the-art’ digital design processes and materials.

Ambrose’s artworks grab attention for their elegant beauty, yet the viewer is drawn closer to study in detail, rewarded by the visual depth of the forms, views through a work or the playful maze of interweaving lines. He seeks to create fascination for the viewer; looking around a multilayered sculpture or uncovering the hidden relevance of every line and shape – creating alluring works of art to cherish at home.

 

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Leica Photography Competition 2024
Royal Automobile Club Members
Friday 3 January to Friday 31 January 2025

The only stipulation for last year’s Leica Photography Competition was that submitted images should make people stop and take time to study them. Entrants didn’t need to go to far-flung locations to capture their shots – they just had to grab the viewer’s attention, and keep it.

The competition was open to all Club members (including Juniors) and was generously supported by Leica UK, who kindly provided the wonderful first prize of a camera and lenses worth over £10,000. They also awarded training with the Leica Akademie worth £450 to the best entry from a Junior Member.

There were 836 entries which were whittled down to 12 finalists by three judges: John Retter (Chairman of the Photography Group), Rosemary Wilman (past President of the Royal Photographic Society) and Robin Sinha (a Leica Akademie Tutor).

The winning image was The Marlin Man by Mr Laudy.

The exhibition consists of the 12 finalists as well as a selection of images from the other shortlisted entries.

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Still Life
Georgina Stanley
Friday 6 December to Friday 3 January 2025

Figurative painter, Georgina Stanley completed her formal artistic training over three years at the Florence Academy of Art. She graduated with the prize for portraiture and began a career as a full-time artist in London.

Whilst she continues to accept a limited number of portrait commissions each year, her work has moved largely to focus on the genre of Still Life.

She shows a particular flair for the depiction of a wide range of materials and surfaces, and she enjoys capturing the often fleeting moments of life before decay. In her studio she works exclusively from life, and from natural light, taking inspiration from a variety of sources; from her local markets of Brixton, to travels she has been on and the work of Old Masters she admires.

Her work has been seen in a number of both group and solo shows and hangs in private collections across the world, as well as a number of luxury hotels and even a Michelin starred restaurant.

 

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The Royal Automobile Club, London and its People
Roger Dellar
Monday 4 November to Friday 6 December

This is an exhibition by Roger Dellar who is a member of The Royal Institute of Painters in Oil (ROI), The Royal Society of Marine Artists (RSMA), The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour (RI) and the Pastel Society (PS).

Many of the paintings were painted on the side either in the Club, on the streets of London, at the Henley Regatta or in his studio at Hindhead. His love of portraying people and light are paramount to his enthusiasm.

Roger is a professional painter who paints in most mediums but predominately a painter in Oil.

A winner of over 30 National Awards, he exhibits in commercial galleries in the UK and America.

He usually paints seven days a week and is a tutor on many art courses. He also demonstrates to various Art Groups both here and abroad.

 

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For further information, or to purchase a piece of art, please email: picturegallery@royalautomobileclub.co.uk.

 

Dimensions of Lights and Shadows
Richard Neergaard and Bill Pack
Friday 27 September to Friday 25 October

Richard Neergaard and Bill Pack, two very innovative artists finding new ways to creatively rethink basic presentation in a way unique in the world using light, photography and unusual materials and processes.

After studying at UAL in London, Richard combined art with passion for cars to integrate the engineering excellence of race cars with artistic presentation to make innovative art.

He makes art incorporating original F1 or classic car parts that goes beyond ‘man-cave’ decorations to make true art pieces beautiful enough to hang in living rooms, not just offices. He also can be commissioned for a car of your choice.

His pieces are displayed in the British Motor Museum, Jaguar Heritage Trust Museum, Haynes Museum, National Motor Museum, Williams F1 Museum and the Zimmerman Museum in Los Angeles. He has made for McLaren F1, Alfa Romeo F1, Haas F1 and Williams F1 for their HQ’s, drivers and team principals.

Richard also creates very unusual art upcycling cow fur hides using an innovative layered dying technique to create absolutely amazing paintings that have an incredible texture and playful interaction with light. Unique in the world.

Based in Phoenix, USA, Bill Pack is celebrated for transforming automotive photography into emotive art. Bill crafts imagery that captures the soul and craftsmanship of iconic automobiles.

An internationally acclaimed photographer, he has earned global recognition for his distinctive technique known as “Painting with Light.” This meticulous method illuminates the sensual curves and elegant lines of each vehicle, transforming them into breathtaking pieces of fine art.

His recent triumphs include securing First Place Overall and Gold in both the Fine Art and Minimalism categories at the international reFocus awards, affirming his stature as a pioneer in the field. His work is a staple at high-profile events such as the Amelia Island Concours De’ Elegance, the Audrain Concours De’ Elegance, and the Pebble Beach Concours De’ Elegance.

Please download the price list. Artwork can be purchased from the Online Club Shop.

For further information, or to purchase a piece of art, please email: picturegallery@royalautomobileclub.co.uk.

 

‘Images That Caught My Eye’ by Joe Devanny
Friday 30 August to Friday 27 September

Following his last exhibition “Only in Italy” in 2022, West Sussex freelance photographer Joe Devanny returns to the Royal Automobile Club, Pall Mall with a fresh collection capturing sights and moments during his recent photographic tour of New Zealand, Australia, Singapore and Italy.

This collection is a snapshot of specific images that caught his creative eye while travelling. They do not necessarily reflect the expected sights and scenes, but rather a take on some of the more unusual and quirky, together with, of course, his well-documented love for the Italian Classic Car world.

Each photographic image is hand printed on 308gsm Hahnemuhle Photo Rag paper, float mounted (where appropriate) and set within a bespoke black wooden frame, under UV glazing and limited to a series of 25.

Each image is signed and authenticated by the photographer.

New for this year is a series of faithfully reproduced signs that were an integral part of the original Mille Miglia which took place between 1927 and 1957.

Incorporated within the frame is a photograph of the original image in-period.

Each sign is a bespoke, faithful re-creation of the original.

Professionally painted and patinated to reflect the look, age and feel of the original. Limited to a series of five, they are framed, signed and authenticated by the Artist.

 

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For further information, or to purchase a piece of art, please email: picturegallery@royalautomobileclub.co.uk.

 

David Purvis Motoring Art
Friday 26 July to Friday 30 August

David’s interest in painting started at school where successful local exhibits encouraged him to choose Art at ‘A’ Level and achieve ‘A’ Grade Distinction. Sadly the realities of Grammar School life steered him away from Art College – but since then at first his motoring art and since moving to Olney in 2000 local scenes, sometimes with a motoring twist have helped him create hundreds of motoring related paintings.

David has been a Member of the Guild of Motoring Artists for 40 years, the Chairman for 10 years, more recently taking a second stint as Administrator and has exhibited with them throughout the UK, Europe and the USA.

He has built up a loyal local following with many personal commissions and nationally with motor racing themed subjects. A particular speciality is recreating scenes from black and white references into full colour paintings based on extensive research.

Over the last five years David has been commissioned to provide work for several international motoring books.

Locally he has successfully developed Olney Christmas Cards and Jigsaws. David regularly donates images for and produces the Newport and Olney Lions Charity Town Calendars and provides artwork, logos and creative material for numerous local societies and commercial businesses.

David is Gallery Manager for the Three Hares Gallery at Olney’s Cowper and Newton Museum.

Recently semi-retired from a long career in retail marketing, David now enjoys devoting more time to enjoying and producing his art.He has exhibited twice before at the Club with the Guild of Motoring Artists, but this is his first solo exhibition here.

 

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For further information, or to purchase a piece of art, please email: picturegallery@royalautomobileclub.co.uk

 

Sails, Places, Life
Jacquie Turner
Friday 28 June to Thursday 25 July

Jacquie lives in Cornwall for some of the year watching the water, sails and skies. She paddles and sails along creeks and out to sea watching the sail boats, fishing boats and weather changes creating new colour and mood and the movement she wants to capture.

Sketching is a luxury, but for Jacquie photography is vital to use alongside visual memory. The inspirational moments are sudden and can disappear in just a few seconds, so the drawers and walls in her Buckinghamshire studio are crammed with photos and cuttings sometimes waiting years to be the spark that initiates an idea or painting.

Jacquie has a degree in Fine Art and studied at Winchester School of Art when the inspirational Gillian Ayres was head of painting, After graduating she supported herself working at Marlborough Fine Art in London which represents Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, Graham Sutherland and the amazing Frank Auerbach. Jacquie moved to the Arts Council working part time and then briefly to The Tate Gallery before leaving to paint full time.

Jacquie exhibits her sailing and marine paintings throughout the year in Buckinghamshire and Cornwall. The Linda Blackstone Gallery has shown her work at art fairs in London and major cities around the world since 1987. Jacquie sails, rows and is an enthusiastic paddleboarder on the Thames and Cornish creeks.

 

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For further information, or to purchase a piece of art, please email: picturegallery@royalautomobileclub.co.uk

 

Photography Activity Group
Thursday 9 to Friday 24 May

On behalf of the Photography Group Committee, we wish you a very warm welcome to the Annual Photography Exhibition. Once again, we have a superb collection images, all taken by members of the Club. There are 66 images on display in Pall Mall of which 30 are hanging in the Picture Gallery.

We hope that you will take your time to look at and enjoy them all.

Should you be interested in purchasing, the majority are available at the price of £100.00 for an A3 mounted print and £75.00 for an A4 mounted print.

Please keep a note of the photographs that you are interested in and then send an email to picturegallery@royalautomobileclub.co.uk with the title of the photograph(s), quantity and size you would like, your name and membership number. The photographs will be made available for you to collect from Reception at Woodcote Park or Pall Mall, as you prefer.

 

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For further information, or to purchase a piece of art, please email: picturegallery@royalautomobileclub.co.uk