This spring, celebrated painter and Royal Academician Jock McFadyen will open a space
within his studio in London Fields in the first of a series of displays to present his work.

Red Yellow and Blue: Four pictures will present a small selection of recent paintings that focus on the artist’s continuing preoccupation with the ever-changing landscape and inhabitants of East London, where he has lived and worked for 45 years. Large-scale urban landscapes depicting a barely populated Shoreditch High Street, a deserted London skateboard park, as well as figurative works, will be shown together for the first time. The largest work, Sam Skab and Sofa measures 3.5m wide, while Hackney Interior is less than a metre in width.
For the last three decades, McFadyen has painted landscapes, where despite the absence of the figure, the artist’s paintings are full of human presence and ghosts of human activity, from transcribed graffiti to litter, shop signs and posters. However, Red Yellow and Blue: Four pictures will also include two recent paintings which represent McFadyen’s renewed interest in revisiting the human figure within his work.

The Grey Gallery at Jock McFadyen’s Studio is situated in the heart of London Fields in Hackney, across the road from The Bread Station and Brat. It is open at weekends and otherwise by appointment.