Art notice: The Painted Word by Jérémie Queyras (St Stephen’s, Gloucester Road, London)

06 June 2025

The exhibition “The Painted Word” at St Stephen’s, Gloucester Road, London SW7, until 15 June, features 20 large-scale paintings by the Franco-German artist Jérémie Queyras responding to the themes, imagery, and structure of Four Quartets (1936-42) by the parish’s former churchwarden T. S. Eliot. A poetry reading by A. N. Wilson takes place in the church on 6 June. www.saint-stephen.org.uk

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