The Picture Gallery
The Picture Gallery is the Club’s curated exhibition and gallery space.
Located on the lower ground floor of the Pall Mall clubhouse, the Picture Gallery displays a diverse range of exhibitions throughout the year, showcasing unique works from local and international artists, illustrators and photographers.
Most exhibitions in the Picture Gallery are commercial, with works available to purchase. We also welcome submissions from members and friends of members.
For further information about purchasing an artwork or exhibiting in the Picture Gallery, please email picturegallery@royalautomobileclub.co.uk or call 01372 229640.
CURRENT EXHIBITION
Annual Photography Group Exhibition
Friday 25 July to Friday 29 August
On behalf of the Photography Group Committee, we wish you a very warm welcome to the Annual Photography Exhibition at Pall Mall. Once again, we have a superb collection of images, all taken by members of the Club which will be exhibited in the Picture Gallery, the Long Bar and the first floor of the rotunda.
We hope that you will take your time to look at and enjoy them all.
The Photography Group is open to anyone who is interested in photography regardless of their photographic experience or ability. The group’s key objective is to help members improve their photographic skills whilst having fun.
For further information, or to purchase a piece of art, please email: picturegallery@royalautomobileclub.co.uk.
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
Alan Reullier
The Picture Gallery Exhibition
Friday 20 June to Friday 25 July
Alan Reullier is a visual artist whose work blends industrial experience with creative vision, drawing influence from Arte Povera and Street Art. His artistic journey began in northern Paris, where he practiced graffiti using urban landscapes as his canvas despite limited resources. After joining the French Navy and Air Force for eleven years as a Chief Aircraft Mechanic, Alan honed a precise and innovative approach to his art. His military career allowed him access to materials such as aircraft engine parts, mechanical tools and industrial artifacts which became integral
to his creations.
Alan’s art is aligned with the Arte Povera philosophy, transforming raw industrial components into works that challenge consumer society by elevating their aesthetic and symbolic value. His sculptures and installations preserve the integrity of industrial elements, giving them a new artistic resonance that bridges the technical world with the realm of art. With a deep understanding of these objects, he creates pieces that reveal their structural beauty and symbolic significance.
Through collaborations and acquisitions, Alan has worked with rare materials such as blueprints of iconic automotive brands and automatic doors from Paris Metro Line 1. His work is a poetic exploration of the relationship between humans and technology, elevating everyday industrial objects into profound art that invites reflection on the hidden poetry within the objects shaping our modern world.
Please download the price list.
For further information, or to purchase a piece of art, please email: picturegallery@royalautomobileclub.co.uk.
Paintings and Portraits
Kathy Barker SWA
Monday 26 May to Friday 20 June
Painting is Kathy’s passion and people’s faces and presence draw her in most of all. Her desire to capture an impression, spot particular nuances and a sense of the person’s character brushed onto the canvas is a very rewarding process derived from the relationship formed between artist and sitter.
Kathy trained at Wimbledon School of Art in Fine Art Painting (BA Hons) and Printmaking (MA). She was awarded a studio at the Florence Trust, London, and commissioned to write ‘Drawing and Painting the Clothed Figure’, published by The Crowood Press. As her career progressed she followed her passion for portraiture and studied at the Charles Cecil Studio, Florence, in the classical atelier fashion.
Kathy has tutored for the Postgraduate Visual Arts at West Dean College, the Edward James Foundation and currently tutors at private member clubs. Her work has been collected internationally and been exhibited at the Royal Society of Portrait Painting, the Society of Women Artists, where she is a full member and has just finished the 2025 touring exhibition with Wales Contemporary.
Whilst portraiture still lies at the heart of her work Kathy also paints landscapes, still life and lots of cute pets!
Kathy works from both sittings and photographs that she has taken to suit the client.
Please download the price list.
For further information, or to purchase a piece of art, please email: picturegallery@royalautomobileclub.co.uk.
Dr S D Jouhar FRPS (1901-1963)
Fine Art Photography
Friday 25 April to Friday 23 May
Dr Sartaj Din Jouhar was born in 1901 in Amritsar and, after studying Science at the University of Amritsar, he came to England around 1923 to study Medicine. He started taking pictures in the 1930’s and was a prolific and passionate photographer until he died in 1963. He was known within photographic circles as ‘The Doctor’ and he lectured and exhibited widely both in the UK and worldwide. In 1940 he became a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and in 1944 he was invited to join the London Salon of Photography, at a time when there were only 30 members worldwide.
From the mid-1940’s Dr Jouhar was a strong advocate that photography should be considered as a Fine Art, and eventually he founded the Photographic Fine Art Association in 1961. The P.F.A.A held an inaugural exhibition at The Royal Festival Hall in November 1961. It was the first exhibition ever in the UK that showed photography as a Fine Art.
Many of his original prints are in museum collections and private collections and this current exhibition consists of an eclectic mix of his work.
There are original monochrome pictures printed by SDJ himself in the 1940’s and 1950’s, some of which are signed. Additionally, there are some limited-edition
sepia-toned Estate prints from the ‘Sunlight and Shadow’ series, and some
limited-edition colour photographs created by SDJ using a Polarized Light technique. The limited-edition prints have been produced more recently from the original negatives.
All pictures will be sold with a Certificate of Authenticity.
Please download the price list.
For further information, or to purchase a piece of art, please email: picturegallery@royalautomobileclub.co.uk.
The Guild for Creative Automotive Art
Friday 28 March to Friday 25 April
The Guild of Motoring Artists (GMA) was established in 1986 as a group of professional and semi-professional artists, who shared a common interest in automotive art. Over the years it has attracted some of the best and diverse worldwide automotive artists through its selective membership, exhibiting around the UK with invitational exhibitions in the USA.
Our fourth exhibition at the Club features work from 13 of our members in a variety of media and styles. You will find work from Jonny Ambrose, Richard Neergaard, Ray West, Steve Goodwin, Jon Stevenson, Anna-Louise Felstead, Dave O’Brien, Martin Smith, David Purvis, Oliver Ray, David Ginn, Gwyn Carter and Greg Stirling on display.
Our objective is to become the one stop for quality creative automotive art. Whether your taste is for traditional compositions, tight representational illustration, loose and wild, abstract, digital vector or
3D sculpture and multi-media, you are sure to find a style that’s right for you within the guild’s membership portfolio.
Please download the price list.
*Please note that the numbers for each artwork in the gallery above do not correlate with the numbers on the price list.
For further information, or to purchase a piece of art, please email: picturegallery@royalautomobileclub.co.uk.
Gentlemen and Players by William Lansbury
Friday 28 February to Friday 28 March
It is hard to believe when you consider the level of professionalism in modern racing that not so long-ago racing was a game where gentlemen and gifted amateurs could compete on equal terms, in more or less equal machinery, against the ‘works’ teams.
There have always been professional drivers like Stirling Moss and Derek Bell racing in sports car events but if you look at the entry lists for the Mille Miglia and the Targa Florio so many of the drivers were amateurs, perhaps some just happy to be there and others hoping to be noticed by the ‘works’ teams.
I wonder what it was like at The Targa to be practising on the narrow streets of Sicily in a car that would not be out of place at Le Mans – with lorries coming in the opposite direction. Can you imagine modern drivers going to a party the night before a race? In the 1950s the party scene was an important part of
international rallying, pre and post event.
Whoever the drivers were and whoever they drove for they all revelled in the joie de vivre of being there.
Put yourself behind the wheel and glimpse some of these moments in this exhibition.
Please download the price list.
*Please note that the numbers for each artwork in the gallery above do not correlate with the numbers on the price list.
For further information, or to purchase a piece of art, please email: picturegallery@royalautomobileclub.co.uk.
30 years of Abstraction by Jonny Ambrose
Friday 31 January to Friday 28 February
Since graduating in fine art sculpture in 1994, Jonny Ambrose has been creating elegant, contemporary automobile sculptures, abstract paintings and trophies (Mille Miglia 2024-present, The Quail Concours USA 2017-2022 and Porsche Motorsport 2022-present).
Clients include Morgan, MG, Porsche Motorsport, Bicester Motion, Octane, alongside private clients worldwide and international collectors. Aston Martin and Porsche in-house media have featured his sought after artworks.
Jonny has exhibited in Paris, California, Stuttgart, London, Glasgow and Frankfurt. In the UK, he has exhibited at the Royal Automobile Club, Sotheby’s London, Goodwood, The Historic Motoring Awards, Hampton Court Palace, British Motor Museum and Silverstone. He is also a Judge at the Royal Automobile Club’s Art of Motoring Exhibition.
This exhibition spans 30 years of creating motoring art, ‘celebrating automotive artistry with graceful abstraction’, inspired by aerodynamic forms, graphic patterns and car details. Artworks range from his 1990’s ‘Circuit Series’ paintings, through to his sculptural series of the past decade, which continue to see him exploring new ways to portray motoring subjects. His minimalist sculptural artworks combine traditional, steambent wood craftsmanship with ‘state-of-the-art’ digital design processes and materials.
Ambrose’s artworks grab attention for their elegant beauty, yet the viewer is drawn closer to study in detail, rewarded by the visual depth of the forms, views through a work or the playful maze of interweaving lines. He seeks to create fascination for the viewer; looking around a multilayered sculpture or uncovering the hidden relevance of every line and shape – creating alluring works of art to cherish at home.
Please download the price list.
For further information, or to purchase a piece of art, please email: picturegallery@royalautomobileclub.co.uk.
Leica Photography Competition 2024
Royal Automobile Club Members
Friday 3 January to Friday 31 January 2025
The only stipulation for last year’s Leica Photography Competition was that submitted images should make people stop and take time to study them. Entrants didn’t need to go to far-flung locations to capture their shots – they just had to grab the viewer’s attention, and keep it.
The competition was open to all Club members (including Juniors) and was generously supported by Leica UK, who kindly provided the wonderful first prize of a camera and lenses worth over £10,000. They also awarded training with the Leica Akademie worth £450 to the best entry from a Junior Member.
There were 836 entries which were whittled down to 12 finalists by three judges: John Retter (Chairman of the Photography Group), Rosemary Wilman (past President of the Royal Photographic Society) and Robin Sinha (a Leica Akademie Tutor).
The winning image was The Marlin Man by Mr Laudy.
The exhibition consists of the 12 finalists as well as a selection of images from the other shortlisted entries.
Please download the price list.
For further information, or to purchase a piece of art, please email The Picture Gallery.
