Rebecca Hossack Art Gallery was delighted to host the opening of Reg Gadney's new show 'Paintings'- an exquisite showcase of portraits featuring Ian McEwan, Fay Maschler and our very own Eleanor Ackland!
Reg Gadney’s art belongs to the British Figurative Tradition, that rich seam of painterly enquiry that runs from Sickert to Bomberg, Auerbach, Euglow, Bacon and beyond. He lives not merely literally but also figuratively between Camden Town and Bloomsbury, within sight of the Euston Road and Fitzroy Street.
Gadney has achieved a very individual synthesis of these connected artistic strands. It stands revealed in his current collection of paintings, compact and powerful images of family, friends, models, artistic heroes and Thai lady-boys.
For fifteen years Gadney was an inspirational tutor at the Royal College of Art. Independent, challenging and erudite (he has written an acclaimed short study of Constable, as well as a best-selling series of spy thrillers), he was justly regarded as ‘the College’s best kept secret’.
Gadney’s work is held in several important corporate, collegiate and private collections in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Gadney has achieved a very individual synthesis of these connected artistic strands. It stands revealed in his current collection of paintings, compact and powerful images of family, friends, models, artistic heroes and Thai lady-boys.
For fifteen years Gadney was an inspirational tutor at the Royal College of Art. Independent, challenging and erudite (he has written an acclaimed short study of Constable, as well as a best-selling series of spy thrillers), he was justly regarded as ‘the College’s best kept secret’.
Gadney’s work is held in several important corporate, collegiate and private collections in the United Kingdom and the United States.