Henry Jabbour Lebanese-British, b. 1961
Born in Beirut, Henry Jabbour graduated from New York Academy of Art in 2015 where he obtained a Master of Fine Art in Painting and Printmaking. His paintings focus on the human figure, exploring the emotive qualities of the body through colour and mark making.
The artist welcomes us to a richly coloured world of pastoral reverie and lyrical contemplation. These evocative paintings contain images of small and intimate moments heavy with personal significance. Expressed in a flamboyant welter of exuberantly-applied paint, they vibrate with dynamic energy and creative enthusiasm.
Jabbour is, above all, a colourist. He deploys his palette for maximal optical effect. Free from the academic demands of observed representation, he explores a full range of spectral opportunity. This artist delights in the combinations and contrasts of burnt oranges, flaming reds, cool cerulean blues, acid greens, citrus yellows and intense opulent violets.
The paintings are peopled with schematic figures. They are located in impressionistic, dreamlike landscapes, described by animated and graphic brushwork. Solitary, or in couples, these vestigial and allusive characters follow daily routines: they walk, stand and sit as examples of the everyday. Planted and remodelled within shimmering fields and veils of transforming paint, they enter a more intense pictorial space, which hints at spiritual elevation. They are transfigured by the act of painting.
Jabbour's paintings are a feast of coruscating texture. His profound attachment to the materiality of the medium is expressed in the sumptuous colour spread in gestural coagulations across the surface of his canvasses. This trademark impasto is formed by smear, clump and cluster of viscid, buttery oil paint applied by brush, knife and rag. This palpable physicality is almost a subject in itself.
Lush and lively method makes for a hyper-expressive setting, where the artist can locate his scenarios of tenderness and pause. The various protagonists, surrounded by intimations of fecundity and abundance, inhabit a natural world, subject to Jabbour's excited aesthetic heightening. He identifies intensity in the familiar, existential joy in the considered moment and sensual pleasure in the art of both making, and experiencing, a picture.
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Belong, 2026Oil on linen80 x 75 cm
31.5 x 29.5 in -
Better With You, 2026Oil on linen60 x 55 cm
23.6 x 21.7 in -
I And My Soul, 2026Oil on linen100 x 100 cm
39.4 x 39.4 in -
I And My Soul II, 2026Oil on linen100 x 100 cm
39.4 x 39.4 in -
In You My Soul, 2026Oil on linen60 x 55 cm
23.6 x 21.7 in -
Leaving Traces, 2026Oil on linen100 x 90 cm
39.4 x 35.4 in
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At Peace Am I, 2025Oil on linen60 x 55 cm
23.6 x 21.7 in -
Soul Dance, 2025Oil on linen80 x 75 cm
31.5 x 29.5 in -
This Hour I Tell, 2025Oil on linen120 x 110 cm
47.2 x 43.3 in -
To Sleep, To Dream, 2025Oil on linen75 x 80 cm
29.5 x 31.5 in -
Ever Ours, 2024Oil on linen146 x 195 cm
57.5 x 76.8 in -
Two, 2024Oil on canvas120 x 110 cm
47.2 x 43.3 in -
Ever Spring Again II, 2022Oil on Linen106 x 91 cm
41.7x 35.8 in
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Henry Jabbour
The Courage to Be II 4 - 27 Jun 2026Pontone Gallery presents The Courage to Be II, a new body of work by Henry Jabbour, which continues his exploration of human connection, vulnerability, and the landscapes - real and imagined - that shape our sense of belonging.Read more -
Above the Valley
A Group Exhibition 22 Jan - 7 Feb 2026This short-running January exhibition occupies the gallery as a temporary pocket of time - a contained space in the heart of London's Fitzrovia that opens outward onto something far larger. Across photography, painting and works on paper, the exhibition brings together artists whose practices circle the idea of landscape in its many registers: seen from afar or at close range, mapped across bodies and objects, or stretched into vast, expressive terrain.Read more -
Alone, Together: The Quiet Religion of Solitude
25 Oct - 21 Dec 2025Pontone Gallery is delighted to announce Alone, Together: The Quiet Religion of Solitude, a group exhibition featuring works by nine artists. The show is a provocation of what the self experiences when all is stripped away.Read more -
Henry Jabbour
The Courage to Be (Pt 1) 5 Sep - 4 Oct 2025Pontone Gallery presents The Courage to Be, a new body of work by Henry Jabbour, which continues his exploration of human connection, vulnerability, and the landscapes - real and imagined - that shape our sense of belonging.Read more -
Turbulent Materiality
11 Jul - 12 Oct 2024This summer Pontone Gallery mounts an exhibition of painters who are all obsessed with the materiality of their medium, which they each manipulate with a distinct and intense singularity.Read more
Malcolm Liepke’s paintings assert his skilful and graphic iterations of human flesh in all its forensic intimacy. His gestural and fluent handling emphasises the delicate, bruised tones of his male and female models, framed by a bright and acidic variety of rich colour.
Timothy Spall elicits a profound spiritual response with a dark and brooding landscape that contains a discrete, but explicit, description of the crucifixion at Golgotha. Misty veils of charcoal greys are penetrated by shafts of sulphurous sunlight to reveal a tragic scene, glimpsed from afar but unmistakable.
Richard Harrison deploys vigorous and expressive passages of highly worked paint. Clots, clumps, streaks and sticky accretions are distressed and agitated by the artist’s urgent hand, eager to fashion an image of primal landscape from a chaos of turbid material.
Henry Jabbour explores a rich and sumptuous palette of shimmering primary hues. Glistening oil paint is freely applied in thick, creamy skeins and slicks against saturated, liquid glazes. Vestigial romantic figures hover in this world of subtle, painterly abstraction. -
Henry Jabbour
A Certain Rest 30 Jun - 20 Aug 2023Jabbour is, above all, a colourist. He deploys his palette for maximal optical effect. Free from the academic demands of observed representation, he explores a full range of spectral opportunity....Read more -
A New Home
2 Mar - 30 Apr 2023This exhibition marks the occasion with a selection drawn from the gallery’s extensive list of international artists, including many previously exclusive to The Albemarle Gallery. The presentation focusses particularly on...Read more -
Henry Jabbour
Saturation Point 21 Jul - 28 Aug 2022His figures are schematic and cursive studies of human interaction and tenderness. Although recognisable, they are fragile and hard to pin down. Located in vestigial landscapes, their images hover on...Read more -
Pontone & Albemarle Group Show
4 - 26 Feb 2022Acclaimed Scottish painter, Iain Faulkner , continues his enquiry into the expressive potential of the solitary male figure. Whether located in a luxurious international hotel room or the rugged landscape...Read more -
Pontone Gallery
Opening Exhibition 15 Apr - 16 May 2021To celebrate the opening of our new London gallery on Newman Street, Pontone Gallery is delighted to present a curated exhibition of three distinguished artists. Featuring paintings by Henry Jabbour and Matteo Massagrande and photographs by Lee Jeonglok, the Pontone Gallery Opening Exhibition showcases a selection of works that underscore the combined influences of light, colour and the passage of time on the human psyche.Read more -
Masters of Paint | Winter
13 Nov 2020 - 8 Jan 2021This is an exhibition of six painters who explore and exploit process. Common to all is an obsessive interest in the materiality of paint and the technique of painting. Each presents the viewer with a rich and seductive surface. Each articulates their particular vision.Read more -
Henry Jabbour
Traces Remain 13 Aug - 13 Sep 2020International artist, Henry Jabbour was born in Beirut and educated at the New York Academy of Art. He graduated in 2015 with a master's degree in fine art and printmaking. Relatively new to the art world, his paintings display a vivid use of colour and exuberant execution. He paints the figure. His loosely-indicated, schematic images are integrated into a highly worked and abstracted paint surface, scattered with incidental markings and subtle gestures.Read more
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Art Miami 2021
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Art Miami 2020
Special Online Edition 2 - 20 Dec 2020For the 2020 Special Online Edition of Art Miami on Artsy, Pontone Gallery presents an exquisite collection of Contemporary Painting and a special focus on...Read more
