Amanda Lebus is an artist who works across art forms using drawing, painting, printmaking, puppetry, performance, pageantry, clay, film, book art, paper cutting, community art and public art. Her recent work is primarily drawing, painting and printmaking.

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Upcoming Exhibitions 2025

Exhibiting with the Pastel Society 
I am delighted to have two drawings from my Proverbs series selected for BENCHMARK, the Pastel Society's 126th Annual Exhibition which will be showing at the Mall Galleries, London, from 21st January to 8th February 2025

London Group Show at the Crypt Gallery
19th-23rd February 2025
I will be part of a group show titled EXI curated by Evelyn J at  the beautiful Crypt Gallery, Euston Road, London NW1. More details to follow soon.

Proud Little Cloud
a new animation on YouTube in 14 different languages
​The animated version of James Low's story for children, Proud Little Cloud (Published by Simply Being) was launched on 18th September 2024, a day of super harvest moon and a lunar eclipse! My illustrations have been animated by Marja Shramko and the music and sound editing is by Marina (Marie) Samarina. 

Animation Links

Artists Residency in a Florentine Olive Grove
I have just returned from Italy where I was invited to be artist in residence at harvest time in a four hundred year old Florentine olive. I am so grateful for this opportunity. It is so beautiful. I filled three sketch books and I will be making some paintings in my studio from my felt memory and these sketches.

Forging Ahead!
Unveiled! The three new entrance arches to Godolphin Road Community Garden, which is part of Hammersmith Community Gardens Association were installed as part of their 40th anniversary. I  made the original three arches from MDF as part of my artist residency there twenty five years ago, so it is especially lovely to return there.  
​My drawings were again skilfully forged by blacksmith Henrich Zelinka.

Spring Arch

Summer/Autumn Arch

Winter Arch

​I am delighted to have received a new private garden railing design commission. I have always had a tremendous love of birds and I often draw them. For this commission I wove the house number 54 into the image of the bird. Blacksmith Henrich Zelinka made the railing in his forge in Barton near Cambridge.

Design Drawing for the Handrail at House Number 54

Hand Forged Ironwork Handrail made by blacksmith Henrich Zelinka

Recent Exhibitions

Oaks and Beeches
I was delighted to be asked to show in a  group exhibition of paintings and prints to mark the world premiere performance of Carshalton Beeches performed by Thames Sinfonia. Composer Matthew Taylor was commissioned to write a companion piece to Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks, which itself was inspired by Bach's Brandenburg Concerto.
​All Saint's Church, Carshalton, Surrey, 7th September 2024

The Gallery at Green and Stone Summer Exhibition 2024 

My drawing 'Too Many Cooks' has been selected to be shown in the Gallery at Green and Stone Summer Exhibition 2024 which is on
at 251-253 Fulham Road, London SW3 6HY from Tuesday 30th July to Friday 30th August 2024 Opening hours: Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm.

CONVERSATION PIECE

An exhibition of work by Amanda Lebus and Emily Johns exploring thematic connections.
Emily and I had an early working relationship post art school where we collaborated and inspired each other. Emily remembers how I would observe and draw people on the tube,
hand in pocket, using my finger as a pencil and my thigh as a sketch pad, training my eye when I was too shy to draw in public. I remember Emily teaching me lino etchng using caustic soda and a feather to clear the bubbles from the plate. She was illustrating the poems of John Heath Stubbs, and her images really moved me.
We are both artists whose work spans different art forms and we last exhibited together at Torriano Meeting House in 1996.
This exhibition is an opportunity for our images to talk to each other across time. 

Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, London NW5 2RX 
from 11th to 31st August 2024, opening times below:
 
Sunday 11th August 3-6pm: Opening
Saturday 31st August 3-6pm: Closing tea and puppet-tea when we shall share some shadow puppetry.
20th August 3-6pm and 21st August 2-6pm: Inky Converse-ations / Con-versations. On these two afternoons we will both be in the gallery with brush and pen and paper, responding to each others work with inky improvisations.
14th-17th August -2-5pm

MISCHIEF
"Mischief": a show in Safehouse 1 curated by artist Jenny Blake as part of Dulwich Open House Festival on 11th and 12th May 2024. I was so happy to be invited to exhibit some new paintings in this exhibition alongside paintings, prints, sculpture and drawings by Jenny Blake, Rae Birch Carter, Paul Carter, Liza Dimbleby,
Massimo Franco, Clare Haward, Amelia Power, Sarah Praill, ​Michael Read, Kim Scouller, Jaime Valtierra, and Atul Vohora. 

Artwork by Amelia Power and flyer design by Sarah Praill

​REMARKABLE - The Pastel Society 125th Exhibition
My drawing "Bear Turning" was exhibited and sold at the Pastel Society 125th Exhibition which ran from 24th January to 10th February 2024 at Mall Galleries, London.

Works on Paper 2024
The Gallery at Green and Stone
​Winter Exhibition 
Two of my drawings - "Moon Lit." and "Sleepwalkers in the Olive Grove" 3 - have been selected for this exhibition which runs from 15th January to 8th February 2024 at
251-253 Fulham Road, London SW3 6HY.

INTIMATIONS
​December 2023
An Open Studio Event and Exhibition of sculpture, drawing and painting by six artists from across London:
​ Eleanor Bedlow, Jenny Blake, Helen Burgess, Amanda Lebus, Rachel Mercer and Kim Scouller

Three Branches Exhibition
September 2023 

Three artists who are gardeners and gardeners who make art will exhibit paintings and prints at Islington Arts Factory for a week from Friday, September 22nd 2023.
After this Summer of fire and floods, worldwide heatwaves and sullen British damp, a pause for pleasure in the twin investments of studio and allotment. Gardeners work with soil and season; artists craft from conditions of the body, harvesting feeling into work and working through feeling to make art. Not all seeds that are sewn flourish. Not all sketches set fruit as finished works. For both garden and artwork, a regular practice of focus and attention matters. The notion of control is an illusion - we work with what we find and find ourselves collaborators with nature. These three women artists find expression, nourishment and beauty into their gardens that spills into their art.

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An art auction organised by artist Ophelia Redpath with 10% of the profits going to Rewilding Britain.

Elspeth Open - Open Studio
26th and 27th November 2022
The Pavilion, The Broadway, Grantchester, Cambs. CB3 9NQ
Elspeth Owen (www.elspethowen.net) invited me to show some of my new paintings at her open studio event. Elspeth shows and makes her 
very beautiful ceramics and events in her studio which is a former cricket pavilion. 

Women Celebrating Surrealism - The Centenary
In September 2022 the artist Jenny Blake curated a group show celebrating Surrealism in which I was delighted to exhibit alongside Alexis Soul-Gray, Alice Macdonald, Cherry Pickles, Claudia Carr, Elaine Woo MacGregor, Jenny Blake, Kim Scouller, Liane Lang, Lucy Spanyol, Olivia Mansfield, Perienne Christian,
​Rae Birch Carter, Rebecca Harper, Sarah Lightman and Sonia McNally. 

Beasts, Fools and Olive Groves

A solo exhibition of paintings and prints by
AMANDA LEBUS
at
Linton Art Workshop and Gallery
April 14th – June 12th 2022