Work in progress from my studio in Firle around 2022.

Previous show : PAINT: The Seen, The Unseen and The Imagined: Contemporary European Painting at Messums Wiltshire  2nd Feb-3rd March Panel Talk with Rachel Campbell-Johnston, Heike Kelter, Raphael Barratt and Chris Gilvan-Cartwright on Friday 8th Feb 6.30pm Book through events page below:https://messumswiltshire.com/exhibition-paint/

‘Seabed’ Oil on paper has been chosen as one of the winners of the Wytham Hall Painting Prize 2018 http://www.wythamhall.co.uk/painting-prize.html
Judges include Sasha Craddock, Vanessa Jackson RA, Daniel Sturgis and Danny Rolph
Prize presented by Brian Eno musician, composer,producer.

Im delighted to be part of this show and really looking forward to seeing the new hang of New Contemporaries 2019 at South London Gallery this evening. I thought the show in Leeds Art Gallery looked amazing and beautifully curated by  Rana Begum, Sonja Boyce and Ben Rivers so Im excited to see a new selection of works selected for New Contemporaries 2019.

Catkins class visit to Chris Gilvan’s studio by Barnaby Sadler aged 5

It was awesome! There were a hundred and twenty two paintings! The house was white and everything inside was white , except the paintings. There were paintings on the walls and paintings on easels. He has got really big paintbrushes. I like the big easels. There were black paintings and coloured in paintings. Chris told us that artists do paintings on boards sometimes and in books and everywhere and he really likes painting! He did a painting at the station by my house and Ive got one of his pretty colourful ones with pink and yellow and it looks like fire and dinosaurs and it makes me feel happy.

Looked in on the studio wall today…work in progress

https://dominicjames1423682.wordpress.com/2015/02/05/talk-baron-gilvan/

‘WET AND DRY painting to the edges’ Observer Building Hastings 2015 Curated by ABC projects

WET AND DRY is an exhibition of contemporary painters, whose works explore the fertile ground which our natural and man made boarders expose and reveal.  The exhibition will showcase six artists: Matthew Burrows, Simon Burton, The Baron Gilvan, Gerard Hemsworth, Mario Rossi and Rose Wylie.
The works on display combine comedy, humour and storytelling; and an unusually broad range of subjects: Nature, myth, religion, history and the everyday, rub shoulders with images of the sea, birds, boats, dancing ladies, skulls, grass and stones. There is even a demon or two.
This exhibition is about painting towards the edges: the edges of paint, image and meaning.  This is made all the more exciting by its location on the borders of land and sea; and firmly on the frontiers of regeneration, both physical and cultural.  

The Baron Gilvan was at last nights PV at Jerwood Gallery saw Chantal Joffe’s large scale paintings ‘ Beside the Seaside’ of expressive,humorous and delightfully rude portraits of predominately women and children on Hastings beach.
http://www.jerwoodgallery.org/whatson/23/beside-the-seaside#

A return to Central Bedfordshire College for The Baron to give a talk to Celeste Henney’s lovely students studying fine art, graphics and illustration. Topics covered What is The Baron?, What is the form of The Baron? Virtual Worlds and the unconscious psyche, Archetypes, patterns of behaviour and the collective neurosis, Automatic drawing techniques and collaborations.
The trombone was played to cleanse the space and I was back on the M1 heading home by 3pm.