John Meyer, a leading South African artist who is represented by Everard Read Galleries, was recently commissioned to paint Queen Elizabeth II. With his usual attention to detail (and one eye on the historical narrative). Meyer, mindful of her 90th birthday, chose to conjure an image of her 69 years ago as a young princess, riding on a beach in South Africa in 1947, in what must have been a rare moment of unbridled freedom for the young woman who was to become the world’s oldest reigning monarch, as well as Britain's longest-lived.

Queen Elizabeth II, during her 64 year reign, is the most portrayed human in recorded history, by no lesser artists than Lucian Freud and Andy Warhol. Meyer's remarkable portrayal adds to this tradition. One can only imagine how this invocation of a time so utterly different from the present must have been received. It is hoped that this unique painting will find its way to one of her special homes.

Emalie Bingham is the subject of an interview feature, and video, with Louise McCann on Between 10 and 5.

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 A Short Q & A with sculptor William Peers on working with marble and his latest solo exhibition at Everard Read London, The Space Between.

Liza Grobler  Impression: Dusk II ,  Impression Dusk III

Denby Meyer  Valdemosa Cafe 

Penelope Stutterheime Refuge IV

Alessandro Papetti has created a limited edition of 20 catalogues capturing his most recent works. Handbound and printed on beautiful paper, each catalogue is numbered and signed and includes an original painting on paper (30 x 40 cm). 

View one of the catalogues here.

[The painter’s studio in Milan, a winter’s afternoon. The rain is pouring on the glass roof.]

Pia Capelli: This is a turning point in your work. While in your most recent exhibition, “La pelle attraverso,” you focused on the border between the Self and the world, here you have “come back,” showing landscapes that are closer to mental spaces. I know that these works are the result of a long period of transformation. What is changing in your work?

Alessandro Papetti: I used to work on motionless things, finite thoughts: I would use my way of painting, my quick gestures, to animate the object and give it a sense of movement and speed. Now, instead, I’m working on the flow of my thoughts as they come to me, when the idea is being conceived. This has a great deal to do with memory, which usually offers images of objects that are complete and finished. Anticipating memory is impossible, I know, but it is as if over these last few months of work all I had to do was try to steal milliseconds to be able to paint the moment when an idea, a thought, is born. It was not a rational attempt; it was the need to follow, or anticipate, the flow of my thoughts. 

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Paolo Bini: Beyond the Painting at Everard Read Cape Town, is featured on ABC Arte. 

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CIRCA Gallery London is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Alessandro Papetti. Entitled, I Live Here, the exhibition is Papetti’s first in the UK and will include oil paintings as well as works on prepared paper. Many of the paintings were made at the Palazzo Poli in Rome where the artist was in residency leading up to his solo exhibition there in September 2015, while others were completed in his studio.

 View a film clip of the artist at work in his studio here.

South African artist Shany Van den Berg, who is represented by Everard Read Galleries, has been selected for this year's BP Portrait Award Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. 

Her portrait, Self, was one of 53 selected from more than 2500 entries and this will be the fourth time the artist's work will be shown in the exhibition, previously exhibiting in 2009 '  dit is ek Gladys'  and 2010 'Bloedlyn '.

The BP Portrait Award 2016 will run from 23rd June- 4th September.

CIRCA London opened on 18 March 2016 with a group exhibition showcasing the work of exceptional contemporary artists from around the world.

The Opening Group Show continues until 23 April. 

A catalogue is available here.

For a full portfolio of works please contact the gallery on info@everardlondon.com or call +44 (0)20 7590 9991