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Chrissie Hynde announces Hynde Sight art exhibition in London

Chrissie Hynde has announced the ‘Hynde Sight’ exhibition of her latest paintings.

The Pretenders singer will showcase her artwork at 4 Cromwell Place, London, between November 21 and December 14.

The new collection showcases Chrissie’s dynamic still life, abstract work and self-portraits in vibrant oils.

Among the paintings on display are ‘Thursday Evening Bowl’, ‘Three Jugs’, ‘Afternoon Poppies’ and ‘Thursday Shapes On Yellow’.

The Hynde Sight exhibition is arranged in association with Broadbent Gallery, and will follow the recent showing of Hynde’s paintings at the 2024 British Art Fair at Saatchi Gallery.

Over 60 recent works will be available for public viewing, each piece a testament to her gutsy and beautiful style, incorporating a wide variety of subjects.

Table furniture, flowers and instruments shudder out of their surroundings, full of boldness and light. Hynde’s self-portraits blaze with profound vulnerability and power, while paintings of dear friends like Brian Eno and Paul Weller sit amongst her abstract work too.

For Hynde, 73, painting has become an inseparable part of her creative life.

In the last six years, her artwork has been exhibited to acclaim in London, New York and Massachusetts. It has graced the sleeve of her 2019 album of cover versions, Valve Bone Woe, her arresting patterns and strokes mirroring the musical interpretations inside.

Her vibrant geometric shapes and images of hands were used as motifs on garments in Vivienne Westwood’s Spring-Summer 2021 collection.

Images of nearly 200 of Chrissie Hynde’s original artworks were published in the 2018 book Adding The Blue, via Genesis Publications.

Presenting the first chronology of Chrissie’s paintings, the book’s foreword by the Royal Academy’s Artistic Director, Tim Marlow, reads: “The fact that Chrissie is a great musician underpins her painting in a variety of ways. She learns by doing and in the process her work becomes more distinctive and compelling, an expression of the life force within made visible.”

The ‘Back on the Chain Gang’ songwriter has kept on making music and touring with The Pretenders in parallel to her painting and the band will soon embark upon a sold out tour across the UK through October, including three nights at London’s Palladium theatre.

Opening hours for ‘Hynde Sight’ are from 11:00 – 19:00 Tuesday to Saturday, and 11:00 – 16:00 on Sunday.

The exhibition is free to enter.

Go to www.chrissiehynde.art for more information. Hynde was photographed by Jill Furmanovsky to announced the exhibition.

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