That Which is Lost: Paintings | Naomi Grant

Décembre 8, 2023 - Janvier 12, 2024
Œuvres
THAT WHICH IS LOST December 8th - January 12th 2024
Paintings by Naomi Grant
Exhibition Text by Alice Spawls (extract below, download the full text here)

'In Naomi Grant’s recent paintings, the delicate foliage of a rose or the folds of a fan, the patina on a vase or the plumage of a jay, alerts us to the heightened beauty and determined fancy of impossibilia. Her canvases, which sometimes make their way into the pictures, form another plane in spaces that seem to compress and extend into some indefinite backstage. Here a door, a screen, a table, a frame, a window (or is it a painting?). Here the artist – or a picture of the artist within the picture – or perhaps not the artist at all, but her Hermione, stepping down from the pedestal, revealing nothing of the magic that brought her here.

As in Shakespeare’s play (The Winter's Tale), the dramatic effects – here the lusciousness of paint, the bravura richness of tones – don’t seek to deceive us with their verisimilitude but to move us. The vases of flowers Grant often returns to are perfectly balanced, just at the point of extreme brilliance, yet threatening to dissolve away again, to lose their form, or to wither and fade into their indeterminate settings. Their beauty is offset, made ambivalent, by the formal properties of their compositions.'


- Alice Spawls is co editor of the London Review of Books



  • Self Portrait with Palette and Robe
    Naomi Grant
    Self Portrait with Palette and Robe, 2021
    Signed verso
    oil on canvas laid on board
    120 x 60cm
    £ 3,200.00
  • Self Portrait with Red Scarf
    Naomi Grant
    Self Portrait with Red Scarf, 2018
    Signed verso
    oil on canvas laid on board
    85 x 44cm
    £ 2,700.00
  • Self Portrait (That Which is Lost)
    Naomi Grant
    Self Portrait (That Which is Lost), 2019
    Signed verso
    oil on canvas laid on board
    62 x 44cm
    £ 3,500.00
  • Self Portrait in Grey Fleece
    Naomi Grant
    Self Portrait in Grey Fleece, 2019
    Signed verso
    Oil on canvas laid on board
    45 x 37cm
    £ 2,200.00
  • Still Life with Blue Vase *
    Naomi Grant
    Still Life with Blue Vase *, 2023
    Signed verso
    Oil on board
    50 x 40 x 4cm
    Vendu
  • Still Life with Double Flower *
    Naomi Grant
    Still Life with Double Flower *, 2023
    Signed verso
    Oil on board
    50 x 40 x 4cm
    £ 1,600.00
  • Self Portrait (Sphinx)
    Naomi Grant
    Self Portrait (Sphinx), 2022
    oil on canvas laid on board
    50 x 40.5cm
    £ 2,800.00
  • Still Life with Daffodils
    Naomi Grant
    Still Life with Daffodils , 2022
    Signed verso
    Oil on canvas laid on board
    40 x 35cm
    Vendu
  • Still Life with Moth Orchids
    Naomi Grant
    Still Life with Moth Orchids, 2023
    Signed verso
    Oil on canvas laid on board
    45 x 40cm
    Vendu
  • Self Portrait (Blue)
    Naomi Grant
    Self Portrait (Blue), 2019
    Oil on canvas laid on board
    28 x 26cm
    £ 1,200.00
  • Self Portrait (Head Study)
    Naomi Grant
    Self Portrait (Head Study), 2019
    Signed verso
    Oil on canvas on board
    21 x 21 x 2.5cm
    £ 950.00
  • Self Portrait with Turquoise
    Naomi Grant
    Self Portrait with Turquoise, 2020
    Signed verso
    oil on canvas laid on board
    37 x 26cm
    £ 1,450.00
  • Pinks *
    Naomi Grant
    Pinks *, 2023
    Signed verso
    oil on board
    50 x 40cm
    £ 2,200.00
  • Cymbidium Orchids
    Naomi Grant
    Cymbidium Orchids, 2023
    Signed verso
    Oil on board
    40 x 30cm
    Vendu
  • Peonies (I)
    Naomi Grant
    Peonies (I), 2022
    Signed verso
    Oil on board
    50 x 40cm
    Vendu
  • Peonies (II)
    Naomi Grant
    Peonies (II), 2022
    Signed verso
    oil on board
    50 x 40cm
    Vendu
  • Self Portrait (Mystery Cycle I)
    Naomi Grant
    Self Portrait (Mystery Cycle I), 2020
    Signed verso
    oil on canvas laid on board
    60 x 110cm
    £ 4,200.00
  • Self Portrait (Mystery Cycle II)
    Naomi Grant
    Self Portrait (Mystery Cycle II), 2020
    Signed verso
    oil on canvas laid on board
    60 x 80cm
    £ 3,500.00
  • Self Portrait in Red
    Naomi Grant
    Self Portrait in Red, 2021
    Signed verso
    oil on canvas laid on board
    55 x 45cm
    £ 2,800.00
  • Self Portrait with Fan
    Naomi Grant
    Self Portrait with Fan, 2019 - 23
    Signed verso
    Oil on canvas laid on board
    60 x 45cm
    £ 3,500.00
  • Self Portrait with Blue Scarf
    Naomi Grant
    Self Portrait with Blue Scarf, 2019
    Oil on canvas laid on board
    36 x 28 x 2.5cm
    Vendu
Naomi Grant (b.1987)

Naomi Grant graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge with a first-class degree in English (2005-2008) before joining the Masterclass Programme at the Jerusalem Studio in Israel (2008-2009). Following this, she completed the postgraduate programme at the Royal Drawing School in London (2010-2012).

Her recent paintings centre on the theme of self-portraiture but she is also drawn to the quiet intensity of still life. Naomi’s work is rooted in a commitment to observation but her concerns are always pictorial; the challenge to make the simplest of compositions feel balanced, harmonious and compelling remains a preoccupation.



All paintings are for sale, excluding 'Still Life with Daffodils'. Dimensions are height followed by width unframed in cm. All artworks are signed to the reverse.
Please note that all prices for artworks of the exhibition include tray frames unless marked *  and are VAT inclusive.
If you would like to discuss the purchase of an artwork, delivery quotes (UK and International)
please contact the Gallery.


Exhibition Hours:
8th December - 12th January 2024 (excluding 18-28 December)

Thursday | Friday | Saturday 12pm - 6pm
Sundays 12pm - 4pm

Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday via appointment

155A Gallery
155a Lordship Lane, East Dulwich, London, SE22 8HX
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Gallery contact: Karen Smith

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