Noble and Common Gallery
Contemporary Landscape Painting

19 Hop Market Court
Forgate Street
Worcester
WR1 1HN


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Noble and Common is a new gallery dedicated to new approaches to landscape painting. We work with artists whose practices engage with place—not just as scenery, but as subject, tension, and process. Our focus is on works that challenge and expand the conventions of landscape. We present paintings that are as much about perception and time as they are about terrain. 

With prices ranging from £200 to £8000, Noble and Common offers access to rigorously curated, original paintings by early, mid-career and established artists. We believe in supporting long-term practices and cultivating informed, committed collectors at every stage.

Our name, Noble and Common, references two varieties of hops—‘noble’ and ‘common’—and reflects our values: a respect for artistic integrity and a belief in shared, accessible experiences of place. Housed in Worcester’s historic Hop Market, we draw from this context to ground our commitment to both tradition and experimentation.

Sales

Prices are available on display in the gallery or on demand via email, sold works come with a certificate, invoice and exhibition provenance where applicable. Most paintings have been made recently and come from the artist’s studio. You can buy online however we recommend seeing the work in the gallery or we can arrange to bring a selection of works to you.

Exhibitions
More to follow

Monthly single painting shows.

Each month, Noble and Common selects a single painting to be shown in our market-facing window—offered at a reduced price as part of our commitment to access, equity, and physical engagement with art. This is not an online offer. There are no previews, holds, or early access. To see the work—and to acquire it—you must come to the gallery. We believe art should be encountered in person, through presence, proximity, and time. Our ‘window-work’  invites an unmediated relationship between viewer and object, in public view but privately resonant. It’s our way of helping more people own original art, while still ensuring the artist is fairly supported.

Noble and Common Gallery, 19 Hop Market Court, Forgate Street, Worcester, WR1 1HN

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Artists
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Lewis Graham (b.2001) born in Birmingham, and currently living and working in Worcester, Graham's work is about a relationship with place and landscape, in particular the Client Hills south west of Birmingham. Intuitively, Graham has developed a 'sense of place' in his work and for the current time, this small group of hills that divide the West Midlands from Worcestershire and Warwickshire are the fertile ground for his paintings and drawings. Historically, the hills have their own stories of lore from Roman skirmishes to St Kenelm's martyrdom, as described in legends, which occurred when he was beheaded in the Clent Hills by Askobert, his sister's lover. In the 18th century, George, 1st Lord Lyttelton installed the Lyttelton follies; a Greek temple, an Egyptian obelisk, a medieval castle and ‘Stone Age’ standing stones, all created between 1747 and 1758  designed by Lord Camelford, Thomas Pitt of Encombe, Henry Keene, James ‘Athenian’ Stuart, and Sanderson Miller. In recent history, the Client Hills have been, and continues to be a place of recreation for the West Midlands work force, an escape away from the industry of the Black Country and Birmingham. The hills are flanked by the towns, villages and road systems, the barrier to the sprawl of The West Midlands conurbation, only second in size to Greater London, home to over 2.5 million people. 

“I am drawn to the hills. Maybe I escape there? Clent is why I make landscape paintings, they were the only landscape growing up. From up there you can literally throw a stone into Birmingham, from Weasley you can peer over Longbridge the ghost of the old Rover car factory, and on a clear day you can make out Dudley Castle and Zoo. At first I was making landscape paintings and drawings of  the places familiar to me, over time I realised the hill paintings  represent much more, they are my sense of this place. Ambitiously I want Clent to be, what Cookham was to Stanley Spencer or Northampton is for Alan Moore. For now it is a focus on or an escape to the hills! Like, for so many others, the hills always were and remain an escape for people, be it a Lord pretending, playing amongst his follies or the working people of the Black County seeking fresh air the hills both except and repel us, dividing the green shires from the Black Country and Brum.”

• Lewis Graham in artist talk at Manchester Art Gallery

Biography
Lewis Graham graduated with a degree in Fine Art Painting in 2023 from Worcester University, recent exhibitions include; Vilage Greens, Hillsides and Conurbations (2025) with artists; George Shaw, Angelina May Davis at Paradise Works. Stop the Chaos, Turn the Page (2024) Divison of Labour with artists; The Art School Project, Dean Kenning, Ned James, Daniel Pryde-Jarman, Ruth Ewan, Angelina May Davis , Issac Jordon. The Stones Project (Glossop 2024) with artists; Manchester School of ArtFour researchers from the Visual Culture Research Hub, making, curating, writing, seeking, experiencing stones. Tree & Leaf - Division of Labour with artists; Harminder Judge, Gavin Wade, Mark Essen, Vanley Burke, Harrison & Wood, Matt Westbrooke, Luke Routledge, Andrew Lacon, Stuart Whipps, Elisabeth Rowe, Joanne Masding, Simon & Tom Bloor, James Winnet, Yelena Popova, Rafal Zar

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Angelina May Davis‘ paintings are fabrications, plundering imagery from childhood TV and art history. She is interested in thinking about the past and what shapes us, using the transformative act of painting to reflect on history and culture as well as her own sense of belonging.

Davis revists the rural English landscape of the 1970s, restoring the English elm as depicted in remembered films, archival footage and English landscape painting, as metaphor for loss and longing, recalling a nostalgic and insincere past. Her paintings are claustrophobic worlds in which there is ambiguity, artifice and the possibility of things just out of view.

Biography
Angelina May Davis graduated with a degree in Fine Art Painting in 1988 from Coventry Lanchester Polytechnic and completed an MFA at UCE in 1998. Throughout those years she was involved in setting up and running various collaborative artist studios in Birmingham. Raising a family from 1997 she moved her practice to the dining table for 10 years before beginning to make large paintings again in a studio from 2007. In 2020 she began the Turps Banana Correspondance Course, completing 2 years. She had 2 large paintings included in Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021 and Blue Elms was acquired by the Government Art Collection. She reached the 2nd round of John Moores in 2020, was shortlisted for the Jacksons Painting Prize in 2020 and 2021, and her large scale watercolour ‘Pond’ was selected by Juliette Losq for the Outstanding Water Colour Prize in 2021. She is represented by Division of Labour.

Integer Fringil
Mauris Non Porta
Nam Blandit Venenatis
Amet Tempus
Nulla Hendrerit Quam
Non Varius
Sed Lectus Diam
Odio Sceleris
Praesent In Aliquam
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Nulla Hendrerit
Maece Laore Quam
Ex Volutpat
Dapibus Et Risus
Nullam Nibh
Fusce Fringilla Tortor
Euismo Magna
Quisque Vehicu Sem
Ut Dictum Lacus
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