Llewellyn Alexander Gallery

Located almost adjacent to Waterloo Station in London and opposite the Old Vic, this innovative gallery existed for about 30 years before it closure in 2018. The gallery specialised in original oils, watercolours and pastels and showcased a new exhibition almost every month. Every summer, the Llewellyn Alexander held a show entitled ‘Not the Royal Academy’ featuring 1,200 of the best paintings that were not accepted by the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Thousands of paintings are received by the Royal Academy and other art galleries each year for inclusion in their exhibitions but many of them were rejected mainly due to inadequate quality standards and/or space constraints. The Llewellyn accepted many of those 'rejected' paintings and exhibited them in their gallery, thereby giving them a new lease of life.

Exhibited artists included Olwen Tarrant, Edna Bizon, Peter Graham, John Yardley, Jeremy Barlow, George Large, Thora Clyne and Jenny Wheatley.