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Projects, publications and exhibitions showing John's work.

Illustration for Lilliput 1960 © John Glashan

New Exhibition

The Chaotic Cortex:
The Surreal Worlds of
John Glashan and Glen Baxter

9 December 2024 ‐ 4 January 2025 at:

Chris Beetles Gallery
8 & 10 Ryder Street, London SW1Y 6QB

A new exhibition celebrating the work of John Glashan and Glen Baxter. Showing over sixty of John's illustrations and cartoons produced over two decades, see the remarkable range, quality and artistry of his art and cartoon work.

All works can also be viewed online at www.chrisbeatles.com/exhibition and are available to purchase immediately.

For more information or to enquire about any of the artworks in the show, please contact the gallery, details below:

telephone: 0207 839 7551
email: gallery@chrisbeetles.com
website: www.chrisbeatles.com
via our online form


Left: Illustration for Lilliput, 1960


© John Glashan

Exhibitions: The Illustrators

A selection of John's unique and beautifully painted cartoons are shown at Chris Beetles Gallery as part of their fine annual exhibitions for illustration and cartoon collectors, The Illustrators, featuring artworks celebrating the best of British illustrators and cartoonists working between the 1790s to the present day.

Artworks are for sale and the exhibitions are accompanied by illustrated catalogues with essays and biographies.

The Illustrators 2024:
The British Art of Illustration 1791 ‐ 2024

23 November 2024 ‐ 4 January 2025
View Online exhibition catalogue

The Illustrators 2023:
The British Art of Illustration 1831 ‐ 2023

18 November 2023 ‐ 6 January 2024
View Online exhibition catalogue

The Illustrators
Previous exhibitions showing John's work.

For more information
or to enquire about any of the artworks in the shows, please contact the gallery:

Chris Beetles Gallery
8 & 10 Ryder Street, London SW1Y 6QB
telephone: 0207 839 7551
email: gallery@chrisbeetles.com
website: www.chrisbeatles.com


Left: Cartoon detail, The Spectator, 1992.


© John Glashan

"John Glashan's paintings are as funny as they are beautiful. I will say that again. John Glashan's cartoons are as beautiful as they are funny. Two, in fact, for the price of one"

Jeremy Isaacs

Painting of Peers Chamber, House of Lords, by John Glashan

Parliamentary art collection

December 2016

The House of Lords Works of Art Committee has selected John's watercolour painting of Peers Chamber, House of Lords (left) for their 2016 Christmas Card.

Private Eye: The First 50 Years

Private Eye: The First 50 Years

18 October 2011 - 8 January 2012

A wonderful display celebrating 50 years of Private Eye magazine and Private Eye cartoonists. The Victoria and Albert Museum Studio Gallery, London. Photo left: Exhibition view © Victoria and Albert Museum.

The Someday Funnies

The Someday Funnies

November 2011

Book publication: The Someday Funnies edited by Michel Choquette, published by Abrams comic arts. A large and varied book of comics.

News John Glashan

Being a Scot

August 2008

Book publication: Being a Scot by Sean Connery and Murray Grigor.
Originally published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London (2008).

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