The Gallery at Windsor is pleased to present Left Hand, Right Hand, an expansive exhibition of recent works by Sir Christopher Le Brun and Charlotte Verity, which will be on view from January 27 to April 25, 2025. Curated by Robin Vousden, the exhibition will provide a rare opportunity to see these two major British painters side by side, as they exhibit together for the first time in the USA.

Since meeting in 1974 at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, and marrying in 1979, Le Brun and Verity have developed a rich artistic dialogue arising from years of shared experience, yet which is expressed by distinct painterly sensibilities. Le Brun’s work is led by his imagination, revealing a commitment to the essential pleasure of painting for its own sake, its processes and physicality. He is a master of colour and touch. By contrast, Verity’s lucid compositions, born from hours of close observation and intense looking, distil a precise yet capacious vision of the world.

Both artists manifest an exceptional sensitivity to the natural world and its temporal rhythms. In this group of new canvases, Le Brun evokes the changing seasons through subtle shifts in colour and light over time, demonstrated in works such as Small Seasons, Summer (2023) and Phases of the Moon IV (2024). Particularly evident in these paintings is the tension between revealing and covering, a central feature of his work that unites all its phases, both abstract and figurative. Verity’s images of plants and flowers are exactly rendered without fixing their subjects, their observational rigour balanced by delicacy and a sense of openness. Symbolic rather than botanical, paintings such as Glance (2021) or Anemones (2021) preserve an acute sense of the fleeting and fragile. Verity’s watercolour monotypes, similarly, are lyrical but restrained, expressing a deep knowledge of the natural forms she depicts.

Left Hand, Right Hand will feature some of the artists’ largest-scale paintings to date, highlighting for the very first time Le Brun’s and Verity’s closely connected yet contrasting careers, both characterised by a continuing spirit of invention and renewal.

The Hon. Hilary M. Weston, co-founder of Windsor and Creative Director of The Gallery at Windsor, said: “We look forward to seeing Charlotte and Christopher’s work on display together at Windsor. Curated by the artists’ friend Robin Vousden, this unique show promises to be full of personal observation, profound connection and aesthetic ingenuity.” 

 Left Hand, Right Hand will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue featuring a new text on the artists’ work by Robin Vousden. The book will also re-issue lyrical and personal essays about each artist written by Edmund de Waal, first published in 2014 and 2016 by Ridinghouse, London.

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Left Hand, Right Hand will run from January 27 – April 25, 2025. It is curated by Robin Vousden.

The Gallery at Windsor is open to the public by appointment. Visit the website for more information and public opening times. windsorflorida.com/gallery.

About Christopher Le Brun

Sir Christopher Le Brun (b. 1951, UK) is one of the leading British painters of his generation, celebrated internationally since the 1980s, who makes both figurative and abstract work in painting, sculpture, and print. He was an instrumental public figure in his role as President of the Royal Academy of Arts in London from 2011 to 2019. He was awarded a Knighthood (Knight Bachelor) for services to the Arts in the 2021 New Year Honours. Since 2023, Tate London, the Museum of Contemporary Art & Urban Planning (MoCAUP) Shenzhen and the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT have all acquired major works.

Le Brun’s work can be found in further museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the V&A and British Museum, London; and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney. He is represented by Lisson Gallery worldwide and Albertz Benda, USA. www.christopherlebrun.co.uk

About Charlotte Verity

Charlotte Verity (b.1954, Germany) is a British artist who has honed a lucid and highly specific visual process to attain truth in her work. Close looking is at the heart of her practice. Since graduating from the Slade, she has undertaken residencies including at Towner, Eastbourne; The Garden Museum, London and Flatford, Suffolk. She has been on the faculty of The Royal Drawing School since 2001. A monograph was published by Ridinghouse in 2016, and Echoing Green: The Printed Year was published in 2021 containing over 100 watercolour monotypes made during 2020-21. Work is available from Rowland Gallery and Lyndsey Ingram in London, and Albertz Benda, New York.

Selected group shows include The Hayward Annual, The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition and The Whitechapel Open, London; The John Moores, Liverpool and Yale Center for British Art, New Haven. In 2024 she has been included in major surveys: The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain at Pallant House Gallery Chichester, and Contemporary Collecting: from David Hockney to Cornelia Parker, at the British Museum. Her work is in the collections of Arts Council of England; British Museum; Deutsche Bank; Government Art Collection; Garden Museum; MoCA, San Diego; Tate and many others. www.charlotteverity.co.uk

About Robin Vousden

Robin Vousden studied at St Bartholomew’s Grammar School, Newbury. He read Art History, followed by Art Gallery and Museum studies, at the University of Manchester, between 1970 and 1975. Vousden worked as a curator at the Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester from 1975 to 1984. He joined Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, as a Director in 1984, working there until the gallery closed in 2001. After two years in Paris and New York as Partner at Marian Goodman Gallery, Robin returned to London to join Gagosian as a Director in 2004. He worked there until his retirement in 2022. Robin Vousden is currently a trustee of The North West Essex Collection Trust and of Pallant House Gallery, Chichester.

About The Gallery at Windsor

Founded in 2002, The Gallery at Windsor is an independent art space at the heart of the Windsor community. The Gallery annually invites curators to respond to the space with museum-quality shows of contemporary art. The Hon. Hilary M. Weston serves as Creative Director for The Gallery. The Gallery has exhibited works by leading contemporary artists including Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Ed Ruscha, Bruce Weber, Peter Doig, Alex Katz, Per Kirkeby, and Sir Christopher Le Brun. In April 2011, a three-year collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery, London realized exhibitions by Beatriz Milhazes, Gert & Uwe Tobias, and American Icon Jasper Johns. In 2018 the Gallery’s first presentation in a three-year collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts featured the provocative Sir Grayson Perry; this was followed by exhibitions by Sir Michael Craig-Martin and Rose Wylie. In 2023 the Gallery presented an exhibition of sculptures and works on paper by Sir Tony Cragg. Most recently, the Gallery presented an expansive solo exhibition of work by leading Costa Rican artist Federico Herrero. windsorflorida.com/gallery

About The Hon. Hilary M. Weston, CM, CVO, OOnt

The Hon. Hilary M. Weston is one of Canada’s most influential women, recognized for her volunteer and philanthropic work, her business acumen, and her high-profile public service. Mrs. Weston served as the 26th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario from 1997 to 2002. As HM Queen Elizabeth II’s representative in Ontario, she was responsible for the Crown’s constitutional and representational roles in the province. Mrs. Weston served as the first chancellor of the Order of Ontario, receiving the honor in 2001. She received the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002 and was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada in 2003. In October 2015 Mrs. Weston was invested by HM the Queen as a Commander in the Royal Victorian Order. Mrs. Weston is also the recipient of several honorary degrees.

As creative director and co-founder of Windsor, Florida, Mrs. Weston is actively involved in the community’s continuous evolution. Since 2011, she has overseen exhibition programming for the Gallery at Windsor, presenting the works of renowned contemporary artists and realizing multi-year curatorial partnerships with leading art institutions.

About Windsor

Established in 1989, Windsor is a private residential sporting club community spanning 472 acres of lush barrier island between the Indian River and the Atlantic Ocean in Vero Beach, Florida. In the early 1990s, W. Galen Weston and the Hon. Hilary M. Weston of Toronto, Canada visited South Florida in search of a winter home for themselves and their children. In Vero Beach they became enchanted by a property that over the next decades would become a cherished home, passion project, and ultimately a critically acclaimed residential community. Windsor was designed by renowned town planners Andrés Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk in the New Urbanism style of residential living. It offers public and community spaces framed by timeless architecture and landscape design that celebrates its tropical and unspoiled setting. Windsor is comprised of 350 homesites in various styles, including village homes, cottages, and country estates, all remarkable for their signature Anglo-Caribbean architecture and gracious living. Residents enjoy privacy and seclusion combined with the finest amenities, exemplary services, and sporting activities. Windsor is embarking on its final development phase with the launch of the North Village, a 47-acre neighbourhood featuring 40 residences, new and enhanced amenities and a heightened commitment to sustainability. windsorflorida.com