Winston

Branch

OBE:

“I

want

to

write

my

name

on

the

ledger

of

British

culture.”

his winter, Goodman Gallery London presents Out of the Calabash (27 November 2025 – 14 January 2026), a major new exhibition by Winston Branch OBE – a painter who, at 78, is no longer simply overdue for recognition but rapidly becoming canonised as one of Britain’s greatest living artists. After decades of being spoken about as a “best-kept secret,” the art world is finally catching up to the scale, depth, and restless brilliance of his work.

Branch arrives at this moment with the full force of a late-career resurgence. His new paintings – luminous, abstract explorations of colour, light and space – come on the heels of his 2024 OBE for services to creative and fine arts, renewed international attention, and the jaw-dropping rediscovery of 20 lost figurative works in the summer of 2025.

For an artist who has spent a lifetime resisting categorisation, the current wave of admiration has been both vindication and invitation. As he puts it, with characteristic directness: “I told Nicholas Serota it was my time, and he agreed.”