Conservation Framing & Gallery

Pippa Cunningham paints en plein air, working directly within coastal landscapes and responding instinctively to shifting light, movement and atmosphere. Her expressive paintings capture the untamed energy of the sea through bold colour, dynamic gesture and richly layered surfaces.

Raised in Pembrokeshire, Cunningham has long been inspired by the changing moods of the coastline. Unmoored brings together works from six different shores, from the wild Irish Sea to the hazy light of the Côte d’Azur, each rooted in a vivid sense of place.

A graduate of the Royal College of Art, Cunningham has exhibited widely in England, France and Wales. Her work has been commissioned by Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs and Marie Curie, and is held in private collections internationally.

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Dan Faine is an artist, printmaker, and co-founder of Dark Matter Studio, a boutique print making studio based in West London who have created prints for the likes of Peter Blake and Yinka Ilori.

Prior to starting Dark Matter, Faine worked at the legendary Coriander Studio, where he learned the art of screen printing, working alongside a whole host of artists including Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, Bruce McLean, and Gavin Turk.

Faine’s own work is characterised by playful exploration of taking things out of context, such as isolating pieces of furniture from their surroundings. By basing the colours and composition of his works on famous paintings, each piece is infused with a sense of familiarity at odds with its surreal nature.

Julian Opie (b. 1958, London) is one of the most widely recognised British artists of his generation. Since the late 1980s, he has developed a highly distinctive visual language: simplified figures, bold outlines, and a deliberate reduction of detail. His work sits comfortably between fine art and the visual world of everyday life, drawing on sources ranging from classical sculpture to street signage and digital graphics.

Portraiture has been a constant in Opie’s practice. Rather than pursuing traditional likeness, he focuses on the few visual cues that allow a person to be recognised — a hairstyle, a stance, a repeated gesture. The result is work that feels both specific and anonymous, hovering between individual identity and modern type.

“This body of work has been unfolding over the past nine months; a period marked by deep personal shifts and quiet persistence.

The process itself has been visceral: layering, scraping back, stitching, reworking – an intimate dialogue with the surface and with myself.

Taking the shape of a visual diary, reflecting what was felt rather than said, the work moves between rawness and stillness in a search for balance.

Walking Through Fire is both a gesture and a state of being – a passage through intensity toward something steadier, where what remains is not untouched, but transformed.”

– Louise de Lima, September 2025

For years Sam Wood has made work about the natural world and life in the city, using colour to break down the distinctions between those spaces. From the vital rush of Marrakech to the hushed gardens of Tangier, Our Places brings together a series of reflections on his first trip to Morocco earlier this year.

Following in the footsteps of so many artists who were beguiled by the visual richness of Morocco, from Henri Matisse to Francis Bacon, Wood’s paintings move between intimate moments of tranquility to blazing scenes full of movement and dynamism.

‘So much of my experience of Morocco was between two states, the private and the public, what is revealed and what is hidden away. In this show I wanted to look at the nature of this duality and how it is articulated in architecture, in gardens and in the visual richness of the city.’

Wood’s colourful evocations are at once memories and inventions, blurring the lines between his own lived experience and a dream-like drift into something other.

Brendan Stuart Burns was born in 1963; he currently lives and works in Cardiff. He studied Fine Art at Cardiff College of Art (1981 – 1985), and undertook a postgraduate in painting at The Slade School of Art, University College London (1985 – 1987). Burns has exhibited both Nationally and Internationally, including America, France, Belgium, Australia, New Zealand and Spain.​

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His work is held in numerous private and public collections including The National Museum & Galleries of Wales, The Derek Williams Trust, The Contemporary Art Society of Wales, Contemporary Art Society of Britain (Tom Bendhem Bequest), America, Australia, China, Holland, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Mexico, New Zealand, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand and The United Arab Emirates.​

This exhibition features a collection of unsigned lithographs by Henri Matisse from the special edition of Cahiers d’Art, published in 1936, devoted to the artist’s pen and ink line drawings. The lithographs are signed in the plate.​

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Cahiers d’Art was a French artistic and literary journal originally founded in 1926 by Christian Zervos.​

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Each issue of the journal juxtaposed primitive arts with the modern and contemporary, with articles, literary and poetic texts by contemporary critics.

Sam Wood had his first glimpses of the Cote D’Azur through a commission to create two artworks for Mauro Collagreco at Raffles London, which opened at the OWO in 2023. The artworks feature a hilltop view of the distinctive sweeping bay of Menton, taking in tumbling terraces of lush green vegetation and the azure blue sea and sky beyond. ​

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This led to the idea that Wood, a keen gardener, should spend some time exploring the botanical gardens of the Riviera on an extended painting trip earlier this Summer.. Basing himself in Menton, on the border between France and Italy, Wood spent two weeks immersing himself in the sights, smells and tastes that are unique to this region and have inspired artists and writers alike. ​

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Highlights of Wood’s itinerary included the Hanbury Botanical Gardens above Ventimigila in Italy, the Villa Ephrussi de Rothschild in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, the botanical garden of Val Rahmeh in Menton and a very special invitation to visit the gardens at Le Mirazur, Mauro Collagreco’s world-famous three Michelin starred restaurant, located in the hills above Menton.​