About

 

“So much of painting is prefaced with thinking, letting the mind wander over things, and yet you cannot control what you return to, what your eye is drawn to, or what your unconscious offers up.”
– Nancy Cadogan

Nancy Cadogan is a British figurative painter living in the UK. She has been exhibiting her work globally since 2004 with shows in London, New York, Rome, Oslo and Miami. Cadogan paints from imagination and observation to explore themes of literature, time, and still moments. Her paintings invite the viewer to share her joyful appreciation of contemplative observation.

Her 2019 solo Saatchi exhibition ‘Mind Zero’ marked a bold new direction for the artist and the painting of interior and exterior worlds were described by the Evening Standard as ‘heaven on a canvas.’ ‘Footnotes’, Nancy’s follow-up exhibition for The British Art Fair, continued the artist’s bold new direction.

In 2020, The Keats-Shelley House Museum commissioned Cadogan’s first institutional show, Gusto. The artist’s paintings, steeped in poetic research were exhibited in Rome and celebrated the 200 year anniversary of the life and legacy of the poet.

Cadogan has collaborated with The Land Gardener’s for their latest book ‘Soil to Table’ which pairs her paintings with recipes from chef Lulu Cox. These paintings, from her body of work ‘All the Good Things,’ celebrate our relationship with nature, food and the landscape around us and draw attention to the important link between the health of our soils and the food we eat.

Nancy’s latest project, ‘The Lost Trees’, explores our relationship with trees, time, and the natural world. She is examining what it means to make paintings within the conversation of sustainability and was invited to the Paris Green Week held at the British Ambassador’s Residence for a live painting performance, and a Q and A with the Government Art Collection.

 

Selected Exhibitions

2023

TWENTY ARTISTS IN LAKE COMO
Group Exhibition, Gurr Johns, London

ROYAL ACADEMY SUMMER EXHIBITION
Group Exhibition, Royal Academy, London 

ENGLISH ARTISTS ON LAKE COMO
Group Exhibition, Museo del Paesaggio, Italy

LAPADA
Group Showcase, Lapada, Gillian Jason Gallery, London

FACE TO FACE II
Group Exhibition, Gillian Jason Gallery, London

BRITISH ART: THEN AND NOW
Group Exhibition, Dorfold, Zuleika Gallery, London

EYE OF THE COLLECTOR
Group Exhibition, Eye of the Collector, Gillian Jason Gallery, London

2022

THE STILL POINT
Solo Exhibition, Gillian Jason Gallery, London

METIER LONDON COLLABORATION
Solo Presentation, Metier London, London

EYE OF THE COLLECTOR
Group Exhibition, Eye of the Collector, Gillian Jason Gallery, London

2021

ALL THE GOOD THINGS
Solo Exhibition, The Cadogan, A Belmond Hotel, London

HER DARK MATERIALS
Group Exhibition, Eye of The Huntress

2020

GUSTO
Solo Exhibition, Keats-Shelley House, ROME

WHAT WE SEE
Group Exhibition, Gillian Jason Gallery, LONDON

ART FROM THE HEART – NHS
Group Exhibition, Zuleika Gallery, LONDON

WALL OF SMALL
Group Exhibition, Lyndsey Ingram Gallery, LONDON 

2019

MIND ZERO
Solo show, Saatchi Gallery, LONDON

FOOTNOTES
Solo show, British Art Fair, LONDON

BLUE
Group Show, AH Studio, LONDON

AUTUMN EXHIBITION
Auction, Astrup Fearnly Museet, OSLO

2017

STILL READING
Solo show, Shapero Rare Books & Sladmore Contemporary, LONDON

Selected Collections

The Bennett Art Collection

Residencies

British Embassy in Paris, June 2022

Metier London,  October 2022