HENRIETTA HOYER MILLAR INTO THE LIGHT
High Summer, 2023 oil on board 30.5 × 30.5 cm
HENRIETTA HOYER MILLAR
Long & Ryle are proud to be holding Henrietta Hoyer Millar’s tenth solo exhibition, ‘Into the Light’. Hoyer Millar is one of Britain’s foremost landscape artists, with a particular affinity for the Dorset countryside. This exhibition brings together an exciting new body of work, composed of a collection of small gesso panels. During the last year, Hoyer Millar has become increasingly interested in light and how it transforms the landscape. Though London based, Hoyer Millar spends part of her time in a Dorset studio that was designed and built by her great aunt, the artist Corisande Soames, who was a painter and infamous eccentric.
The studio is built on top of a small hill above a village a few miles inland from the Jurassic Coast and is filled with a large collection of paintings and drawings by both Corisande, Henrietta and other family members and friends. Life is simple here and Hoyer Millar uses it as a base from which to draw, walk, garden and gather information for her work, which after a process of distillation she then makes back in London. She describes the process as ‘a yearning to be back in her Dorset studio and immersed in the surrounding countryside.’ In this exhibition are paintings of familiar lanes, fields and garden that surround the studio and these reflect her reverence for well-loved and familiar places. Hoyer Millar is able to capture scenes familiar to us all; illuminated by sunlight, an unassuming moment is transformed.
The Green Valley, 2022 oil on board 15 × 20 cm
Shelter, 2022 oil on board 13 × 18 cm
The Secret Garden, 2023 oil on board 30 × 30 cm
Studio Garden, 2022 oil on panel 23 × 30.5 cm
Park Life, 2023 oil on panel 23 × 30.5 cm
Heading Home, 2022 oil on canvas board 20.5 × 25.5 cm
The Lane in Spring, 2022 oil on board 20.5 × 20.5 cm
Last Light on the Water, 2023 oil on board 30 × 30 cm
Fiery Trees, November, 2022 oil on panel 15 × 20 cm
Hothouse I, 2022 oil on panel 23 × 30.5 cm
November Morning Lookout, 2023 oil on panel 30.5 × 40.5 cm
Sheltered Amongst the Trees 2022 oil on board 13 × 18 cm
Barn, 2022 oil on board 15 × 20 cm
Cows Beneath the Clouds, 2023 oil on board 30 × 30 cm
May Hedgerows, 2023 oil on board 30 × 40.5 cm
When Morning Meets Day, 2023 oil on board 25 × 25 cm
Shelter in the Woods, 2023 oil on board 20 × 20 cm
Deep into the Woods, 2023 oil on panel 30.5 × 40.5 cm
A Summer Day, 2002 oil on board 15 × 20 cm
Crossing the Bridge, 2023 oil on board 15 × 20 cm
By the Water in Spring II, 2022 oil on gesso board 15 × 20 cm
Lake, 2022 oil on panel 28 × 35 cm
Journey’s End, 2021 oil on panel 30.5 × 40.5 cm
Morning Across the Valley I, 2023 oil on board 20 × 20 cm
Morning Across the Valley II, 2023 oil on board 20 × 20 cm
Two Clouds, 2023 oil on panel 15 × 20 cm
Shaft of Light, 2021 oil on panel 15 × 20 cm
The Blue Lane, 2021 oil on canvas board 20.5 × 25.5 cm
May Fields of Silage, 2022 oil on board 30 × 30 cm
The Door, 2023 oil on board 30 × 30 cm
HENRIETTA HOYER MILLAR
1982-1986 Studied Fine Art at City and Guilds, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1991 Bonhams, London
1995-2001 Long and Ryle
2002 V&A, London
2003-2023 Long and Ryle
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1996 Bonhams, London
Long and Ryle
1997 Hunting Art Prize, RCA, London / Newport City Art Gallery
Discerning Eye (Susan Moore’s Invited Artist), London
1998 Art Auction in aid of Royal London Hospital, Groucho Club, London
1999 London Contemporary Art Fair, BDC
2000, 02 Art London
2000 Panel Paintings, Wilson Stephens Fine Art, London
2001 The Rutherford Centre, Institute of Physics, London
2002,03,05 New Work by 14 Artists, JEFA, Winchester
2002 Koestler Award Trust, Autumn Arts Fair, London
2007 London Contemporary Art Fair, BDC
Diccerning Eye (Sarah Amstrong- Jones’ Invited Artist), London
2008 The Need to Dream, Sladers Yard, Dorset
2009 20/21 Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London
2012 The Lloyds Club, London
2013 The Art Stable, Blandford
2013,15,16 Moorwood Art, Bruton
2014 London Contemporary Art Fair, BDC
2016 Beauty is the Garden, Long and Ryle
2017 BADA, London
2017, 2021 Discerning Eye, London
2021-22 Long and Ryle
2022 RA Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Kelly Ross Fine Art
2022, 2023 London Art Fair
Connect Art Fair
British Art Fair
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