A Likely Story

Paintings and drawings by Rosie Bayliss

Bell House, 27 College Road, London SE21 7BG

Friday 31 July: By appointment, daytime. Private View 6–8:30pm
Saturday 1 August: 10am–4pm
Sunday 2 August: 10am–4pm

A Likely Story brings together paintings and drawings made during Rosie Bayliss' ongoing residency at Bell House. The Georgian rooms, gardens and architecture of the house engage with and inform the works.

The paintings move between domestic interiors and the garden beyond, places charged with psychological tension, holding memory, imagination, and the uneasy gap between the two. Figures appear on the edge of things, caught waiting, watching, seeing what happens next. What is remembered, what is imagined, and what is simply a likely story, one version among many possible ones.

Twelve small fragment paintings sit alongside larger works in the Thomas Wright Room, each approaching the same world from a different angle.