Hotel in Lake Gargagno overlooking Lake Garda towards Venice
This week
2026 Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead Heath
PV 6th May 5pm , daily 7-10
Stand J9 Contemporarti
Paintings, ceramics, works on paper, & prints.
Prices start under £100 for originals
'Jump! Together'
Detail from original painting
framed
£330
'Summer Lit: bronzed beauty'
Book Cover Painting
framed
£290
Reel by artist Yin Wang
2026 Happy Place, Highgate
PV 7th May 6pm, daily 8-10
Both Gallery, 323 Archway Road, London
Group show curated and hosted by Nicole Price featuring
@vanessa.brassey @michael_coppelov @larad123 @t.farthing
@nicolerprice @rocklinsusan @daniel_shadbolt_painting @carolinestreatfield
Fitzgerald vintage found book cover with Poolside painting
Commissions, get in touch
Video Animation & Production
King's Queens & Dream Machines, new album from Saul Damelyn
Saul Damelyn releases his debut single and music video from his forthcoming album, KINGS, QUEENS & Dream Machines, out now.
Video concept, design, and animation by Vanessa Brassey with Jenny Bell at Envis film.
LOVE at The Philosophy Bar
Monday 9th February 6-8pm, Colony Room Green (Mayfair)
Sold out.
The Frieze-Perediza Edit
Friday 17th April Shoreditch Arts Club. By invitation to Frieze members.
Affordable Art Fair
PV May 6th- daily, 7 - 10 May, with Contemporarti Stand J9
Hampstead Heath, London
Happy Place, group show Both Gallery Highgate London
PV May 7th - daily 8-10 May, curator Nicole Price
The world is chaotic and stressful. This exhibition brings together a collection of artists whose work takes you to places that bring joy or tranquillity. These are the artists’ happy places.
323 Archway Road, opposite Highgate Tube.
Pop in for some joy.
'Artistic Intelligence' group show Fitzrovia Gallery, London
Wednesday 27th May – Sunday 31st May
Fitzrovia Gallery139 Whitfield St, London W1T 5EN22/5
'FLESH' National Gallery
Friday Lates, 22nd May 6-8pm Booking here from 18th May
Gallery 18, The National Gallery.
Free, booking recommended.
'Hampstead Streets & Pubs'
Paintings and Prints from Vanessa Brassey & Sophie Brassey
Kalendar, Swain's Lane
Highgate, London
'Is this the right mode for an argument?'
Keynote talk for The Mind Art Knowledge Conference 2026
Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts, Brussels
'Mini Epics' small paintings of big stories.
Group EXPO
PV opens 16th, 7pm - 10pm
Bd Anvers 49 1000 BRUSSELS
'Bacon & The Time of Monsters'
Short Documentary Philosophy Film
British Society of Aesthetics Grant Award 2026
In production, collaboration with Professor Ben Ware and Envis Media
'Cogito in 16mm'
Short Documentary Philosophy Research Film
British Society of Aesthetics Grant Award 2026
In production, collaboration with Dr. Marina Christodoulou and Envis Media
Book 'The Expression of Emotion in the Visual Arts'
Edited by Vanessa Brassey and Derek Matravers, Routledge - out now in paperback.
Live Events & Exhibitions
Vanessa Brassey Studio
Vanessa Brassey is a London-based figurative painter and academic philosopher, celebrated for her evocative paintings featuring swimmers, landscapes, and portraits.
Francesca Mack, London
“I received the print this morning and it's absolutely beautiful. Thank you for the speedy dispatch"
Lucy, Etsy
"Beautiful card and lovely quality."
Jo B., Bucks
"The painting is up on the kitchen wall and I LOVE it. Everyone comments as soon as they come in the room.”
Short Films
Short Films
Saul Damelyn - We Broke the Rules feat Phoebe White (Official Lyric Music Video)
Saul Damelyn - Museum of Love (Official Lyric Music Video)
Vanessa Brassey Studio
