Exhibitions & News
“Clova Stuart-Hamilton, unswayed by trends, paints what she sees. Relishing intricacy and profusion, she deploys the myriad colour touches that coalesce on her canvas to create, over and over again, a triumphantly luminous web of form”
2024 was a year of commissions and building up a new body of work and 2025 will be the year of exhibiting. Having last been part of Oxford Artweeks in post pandemic 2021, it will be a pleasure to open the doors of my Music Room Gallery and garden studio without having to worry about hand sanitiser and limiting numbers!
Oxford City will start the three week festival this year with exhibitions around the city between May 3rd and May 11th. Living in Jericho I shall join around 30 artists and makers who live and work nearby to provide our own map and publicity. This enables visitors to plan a route visiting exhibitions and studios around a very pleasant area which also has the advantage of many attractive cafés, pubs and restaurants. www.artweeks.org
Clova has been invited to help set up a new initiative - The John Ruskin Project at The Ashmolean which, it is hoped, will commence in the next academic year. Leading on from her regular life drawing teaching at The Ruskin School of Art, with the artists Roger Wagner and Francis Hamel, the scheme will enable students at the university who do not study Fine Art to experience a different way of thinking and processing visual information through drawing from a life model. Classes will be taught in the inspiring surroundings of The Cast Gallery and there will be sessions discussing relevant drawings from the collections in the Print Room. The project will reflect the ideas behind Ruskin’s original art school in the Ashmolean.
Eastwood Fine Art at Longstock near Stockbridge in Hampshire continues to sell her works - most recently the large oil of which there is a detail shown below .
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"Longstock has Eastwood Fine Art, one of the country's leading contemporary galleries that hosts five exhibitions a year"
May 2023 Eastwood Fine Art Spring Exhibition
January 2023 Sewell Centre Gallery ‘Joyful Encounters’ Joint exhibition with ceramicist Helen Holden
December 2021 Eastwood Fine Art Christmas Exhibition
May and June 2021 Eastwood Fine Art Spring and Summer Shows
May 2021 Oxfordshire Artweeks, Jericho Solo exhibition in Music Room and Studio at 92 Walton Street
February 2020 Ardingly College Commission for an oil on a grand scale for the headmaster’s Victorian study
June 2019 St Catherine’s College, Oxford Commission of the iconic mid-century buildings by Arne Jacobsen
May 2019 South Oxfordshire Artweeks Festival Joint exhibition
April 2019 Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition, London
December 2017 Art at Holy Cross
A carefully curated exhibition of artists and makers with work sympathetic to the ancient interior of this historic church beside the Cherwell in North Oxfordshire.
March 2017 Royal Society of British Artists 300th Exhibition
Selected exhibitor with two paintings in the annual exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London.
July-September 2016 Abingdon County Hall Museum ‘Alluring Objects, Interior Worlds’ Solo exhibition
A three month exhibition in the stunning Sessions Gallery in the former Baroque county hall - an architectural gem in the centre of Abingdon.
March 2016 Royal Society of British Artists Annual Exhibition