Alan Davie 1920-2014

27th October 2024 marks twenty five years since the founding of James Hyman Fine Art in 1999. To mark this anniversary we are staging a special online exhibition. Based in St James’s and Mayfair for most of this time, the gallery has specialised in Twentieth Century British Art with a...

Michael Andrews Colony Room Mural is an icon of British cultural history by one of the most important British artists of the twentieth century. Painted on canvas, this picture was installed at the famous Colony Room Club in Soho for half a century until its closure in 2008. After cleaning...

The Trussell Trust supports a nationwide network of food banks to provide emergency food and support to people locked in poverty, and campaigns for change to end the need for food banks in the UK. James Hyman, Gallery Director, said: This year we have presented a series of online fundraising...

Unfortunately, NHS Hospital staff, on the front line in the treatment of patients with Covid-19, are still working without the proper PPE (personal protective equipment), and there remains a shortage of testing kits and ventilators. As everyone pulls together I have been thinking what I can do as an art...

Artists whose work is presented include: Frank Auerbach Tony Bevan John Bratby Edward Burra Jake & Dinos Chapman Geoffrey Clarke Prunella Clough John Davies Eric Gill David Hockney Gary Hume Conrow Maddox Robert Medley Paul Noble Hughie O'Donoghue Eduardo Paolozzi Peter Phillips Walter Richard Sickert Jack Smith William Turnbull and...

In celebration we have made a selection of acknowledged masterpieces and little-known rarities from the Modern British inventory of James Hyman Fine Art. We will be exhibiting for the first time, an icon of British cultural history, Michael Andrews's huge canvas, The Colony Room Mural (1958), which was installed at...

One of the leading British Modern Artists, Alan Davie, now in his eighty-eighth year, initially gained his reputation as one of the most important European Abstract Expressionists, a counterpart to Jackson Pollock in America. What both shared was an interest in Jungian archetypes as well as a belief in the...

Now in his eighty-forth year, Davie continues to produce paintings of startling originality, vitality and daring. Combining imagery derived from different world cultures with a love of music and language, Davie's paintings are a complex yet joyous celebration of creativity that combine the expressive freedom of abstraction with a wealth...