Ronnie Wood hangs Hendrix on the walls of Brook Street

Two previously unseen portraits are on display in the Mayfair flat where Hendrix lived in 1968 and 1969; the exhibition runs until 11 April 2027 and limited-edition signed prints are on sale.

Ronnie Wood opened Ronnie Wood: The Jimi Hendrix Portraits at Handel Hendrix House, 23 Brook Street, London, on 30 September 2026. The exhibition runs until 11 April 2027 and includes two previously unseen portraits of Jimi Hendrix alongside prints of earlier works in the flat where Hendrix lived in 1968 and 1969.

Wood attended the launch on 29 September and described returning to the flat as “so strange”. He recalled first meeting Hendrix in 1966, sharing a flat in Holland Park, and jamming together. The show is open Wednesday to Sunday, 10am to 5pm. Limited-edition signed prints of the new collection are on sale.

Guitar lines across six decades

Wood’s own path as a guitarist is bound up with the Rolling Stones, an English rock band formed in London in 1962 who are still active across seven decades. Their early stable line-up brought together vocalist Mick Jagger, guitarist Keith Richards, multi-instrumentalist Brian Jones, bassist Bill Wyman and drummer Charlie Watts. In the early 1960s the group pioneered the gritty, rhythmically driven sound that came to define hard rock. After Andrew Loog Oldham became manager in 1963, he pushed them to write their own songs, and the Jagger–Richards partnership became the band’s primary songwriting and creative force. Brian Jones had been the principal leader in those first years; Charlie Watts, the long-serving drummer, died in 2021.

Their recorded catalogue runs from the mid-1960s outward: 12 x 5 in 1964, Out of Our Heads in 1965, then Aftermath, Between the Buttons, Flowers and Their Satanic Majesties Request through 1966 and 1967, with many further studio and live releases across the decades that followed. Recent entries include the live sets Live At The El Mocambo in 2022 and GRRR Live! in 2023, and the studio album Hackney Diamonds in 2023. That long arc of records and stages is the craft Wood brings into the Brook Street rooms — a working guitarist hanging portraits of another whose playing helped reshape rock at the end of the 1960s.

What he hopes comes next

Alongside the exhibition, Wood has spoken of his hopes that the Rolling Stones will tour again “in the drop of a hat” when his bandmates are ready. He has also addressed the possibility of a Faces reunion. No dates or line-ups for either have been set out beyond those remarks.

For now the only certainty is the show itself. The two new originals and the earlier prints remain on the walls at Handel Hendrix House until 11 April 2027; the flat is open five days a week. Visitors who want a lasting piece of the new collection can take away one of the limited-edition signed prints. The rest — any Stones dates, any Faces stage — waits on the bandmates Wood has named.