Current Exhibition

The Art of Summer

Our summer exhibition features new work by many of your favourite artists, and introducing Simon Palmer.

We’re excited to announce our upcoming summer exhibition, The Art of Summer, featuring vibrant new work by many of your favourite artists.

This year, we’re also delighted to introduce the celebrated British watercolourist Simon Palmer, whose evocative landscapes beautifully capture the spirit of the English countryside.

Born in Yorkshire in 1956, Simon Palmer graduated from art school in 1977 and has exhibited extensively since 1980, including ten solo exhibitions in London with JHW Fine Art. He is widely recognised as one of Britain’s leading watercolourists.

Palmer’s evocative paintings explore the North Yorkshire landscape, capturing the intricate relationship between natural surroundings and man-made structures. Working primarily in watercolour and gouache on paper, his distinctive style combines atmospheric depth with fine observational detail.

His work has been featured multiple times in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, where he was awarded the 2007 Turner/Winsor & Newton Watercolour Award. Other notable group exhibitions include:

The National Trust Centenary Exhibition, British Landscape Painting in the Twentieth Century at Crane Kalman Gallery, Dreamers of Landscape at Bohun Gallery, Art & Yorkshire: Turner to Hockney at the Mercer Art Gallery, Glyndebourne Festival Opera Exhibition

Simon is also an Honorary Member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours.

His monograph, The Art of Simon Palmer, was published in 2011. His work has been widely reviewed, and past exhibition catalogues have featured essays by prominent writers and curators including Alan Bennett, Martin Drury, Tom Flynn, Iain Gale, Lynne Green, Ronald Maddox, Elspeth Moncrieff, and Jane Sellars.

In addition to his painting, Simon has written and illustrated three books, including Pebbles on a Beach. His artwork is frequently reproduced on book and magazine covers, as well as in calendars, brochures, and programmes.

Simon Palmer’s work is held in many private collections across Europe, America, Australia, and Japan.

To view the full exhibition, The Art of Summer, please click here.