Liss Llewellyn is delighted to announce that our exhibition on Charles Mahoney opens next week at the Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden, and runs from 6th July – 27th October, 2024.

Developed in partnership with the Fry, Charles Mahoney: The Pleasures of Life will be the most significant show dedicated to the artist since a touring exhibition at the Fine Art Society in 1999, also organised by Liss Llewellyn. Interest in his work has since enjoyed a steady rise, together with that of Royal College contemporaries such as Ravilious and Bawden, and he was one of the most prodigiously skilled artists of his generation. This is a view shared by the former Director of the Tate Gallery, John Rothenstein, who called Mahoney ‘an artist of very exceptional gifts’, and ‘a distinguished successor to the finest of the Pre-Raphaelites’.

This exhibition brings together works from throughout Mahoney’s career, and demonstrates the full range of his artistic vision. It includes preparatory studies for all of Mahoney’s major mural cycles, as well as superlative views of Oak Cottage and the gardens he so lovingly cultivated there that provided the inspiration for his keen, minutely observed botanical works. The majority of the pictures have been gathered from the artist’s studio, and never previously exhibited before.