Visual Fables: Gordon Glyn-Jones returns with New Drawings and Paintings

Zimbabwe-born artist Gordon Glyn-Jones opens his new solo exhibition, Visual Fables, next week. For three days only, visitors can step into a collection of drawings and paintings that inhabit a unique space, somewhere between illustration, abstraction and fine art.

Step into a world of shifting forms and glowing, living wonders

The show invites people into a world filled with shifting forms, glowing colours and strange evolving living beings. Glyn-Jones describes it as a universe without direct human content, a place where viewers help build the meaning for themselves. Each person’s experience becomes its own story, something closer to the imaginative freedom we had as children.

“The environment we live in today gives less and less space to imagination,” he says. “I want to reignite that possibility. The work is meant to be co-created by the viewer. Everyone will see something different.”

Drawing sits at the heart of his practice. He works daily, often beginning with loud techno in his headphones, letting its rhythm push the first marks onto the page. Those beats echo through the shapes that follow, reflecting the patterns he sees in nature, in vertebrae and shells and cellular structures. These repeat and expand across the surface, building the energy and the underlying architecture of each piece.

Exploring Fecundity, Flight, and the Pulse of Life

Ideas of fecundity and flight run through much of the work. Many shapes hint at reproduction, growth and the pulse of life-force. Other forms draw on his childhood fascination with flying objects, from balloons to ribbons and wings, carrying both personal memory and visual drive. The pieces layer and shift, sometimes playful, sometimes more challenging, always asking the viewer to meet them halfway.

The exhibition also carries the imprint of his upbringing. As an African of European descent, he grew up surrounded by Rembrandt, Blake, Beardsley, Charles Robinson and Chinese imagery, while living inside a vivid African cultural and natural world. “The work tries to coalesce these two worlds,” he says. “It stems from a desire to create my own roots and a unique culture.”

Exhibition Details and the Story Behind the Work

Visual Fables will be held at Great Pulteney Street Gallery, only ten minutes from Piccadilly Circus. The private view takes place on November 27 from 5.30 to 8.30 pm, and the exhibition runs from November 28 to 30. Around twenty-five pieces will be shown, many for the first time. Wine will be served courtesy of Rare and Fine Cape Wines.

One recent story seems to capture the spirit behind the work. A collector placed one of his pieces in the newborn’s nursery, believing it would stimulate the child’s imagination. “I was taken aback,” he says, “but it made sense. If the work reconnects people to that childhood imagination, even slightly, then it has done its job.”

Glyn-Jones encourages people to take their time in the space, to move around the pieces and notice how the work shifts with them. “The viewer completes the experience. That interaction is exactly what I hope for every visitor.”

Exhibition Information

Title: Visual Fables
Artist: Gordon Glyn-Jones
Private View: November 27, 2025 | 5.30 to 8.30 pm
Exhibition Dates: November 28 to 30 | 12 to 5 pm or by appointment
Venue: Great Pulteney Street Gallery, 36 Great Pulteney Street, Soho, London W1F 9NS | 10-minute walk from Piccadilly Tube
Tickets: Free, required for Private View via Ticket Tailor
Highlights: Around twenty-five pieces, many never seen before. Wine by Rare and Fine Cape Wines