EXHIBITION NO.49
Rona Rumney & A J Kelleher
24th May - 29th May 2010Private View Thursday 27th May 6.00pm - 9.00pm
Rona Rumney
Rona Rumney completed a foundation course in Art and Design at St.
Martin’s School of Art.
She later trained as an Art Therapist and during her career continued to
draw and paint. In her own work the challenge has been to retain the
original spontaneous response to the subject with a more conscious
and critical awareness, whereas in art therapy aesthetic concern or
judgement can hinder or block authentic expression.
A J Kelleher
A J Kelleher presents a selection of paintings drawn initially from
observation, but which are then developed through imagination.
Using as models, faces known to her, she works the paintings to create
an intensity of emotion, so that "the more you look, the more you see."
EXHIBITION NO.48
Eithne Twomey
Eithne Twomey has been painting water, tides, mud, riverbeds, barges, boats, quays, for a few years now trying to make sense of the place she came from and the place she is living in now.This collection of paintings combines her sources of Cork Harbour where she grew up and Creekside, Deptford near where she lives now.
She uses photographs, photocopies,drawing and collage to process these sources and aims with paint to get to the very essence of these images focusing on reflections on water; greyness of mud at low tide; hulk-like barges;dark and crumbling quay walls and above all light.
10th May - 22nd May 2010
13th May 2010 6.00 - 9.00pm
EXHIBITION NO.47
Tina Mammoser
Dark
the Black paintings (and others)
Paintings of the English coast, from an ongoing project to cycle the entire coastline.
The vastness and power of the sea is a constant source of inspiration. In my paintings I simplify real seascapes into tranquil spaces of line, colour and light. The sea is one of the few places we can experience total isolation and become absorbed in its overwhelming space and force. We cannot master or humanise the sea, so I capture mere moments of its lifespan.
Though the paintings are specific places from my cycling along the British coast, many people are reminded of places from their childhood or a favourite seaside spot. Simple abstraction connects with real landscape. The depth and luminosity come from many very transparent layers of colour built up slowly, an effect rarely achieved with acrylic paint. The longer you look the more of the colour and variety you see in the paintings.
Private View 18th March 6.00pm-9.00pm.
16th March - 27th March 2010
EXHIBITION NO.46
Jenny Wiggins
Works on Paper
Jenny Wiggins’ new works employs snail trails as a means of drawing, continuing her interest in the accidental poetry of the ordinary. Snails move over a powdered graphite ground laid down on the surface of the paper. The results are then subject to the artist’s selection, drawing, and finally being fixed and framed.Mapping is evident in the paths that result which are then overlaid with grids giving them a cartographic authority. Others rely on a single line to anchor the image.In some pieces the titles are framed to acknowledge the works’ origins.
Private View 10th December 6.00pm-9.00pm.
7th December - 19th December 2009
EXHIBITION NO.45
Vic Bateman
Rhyme or Reason
For this show I have assembled a collection of works on paper spanning a period of over ten years. Much of the work is from this year, however, and the show is intended to give an insight into my creative process. They are all pieces that have never been exhibited. Many formed the starting point for series of paintings, others are one-off ideas or statements. They are not sketches or fragments, they are finished works. Themes such as repetition of marks or shapes, the processes involved, the relationship between art and music, visual poetry, and the expression of colour are all explored in these works.
Making art for me is about expressing what cannot be expressed in any other way. It is about developing a visual language combining emotion, instinct, action, intellect and serendipity to attempt to define some form of universal 'truth'
The peices represent a variety of mediums including watercolour, acrylic, pastel and collage and are mainly on hand made Khadi paper. They are simply pinned on the wall to emphasise the 'object quality', I see the pieces as objects as well as pictures.
Private View 19th November 6.00pm-9.00pm.
16th November - 27th November 2009
EXHIBITION NO.44
Terry Scales & Cristiana Angelini
A Christmas Exhibition.
Terry Scales & Cristiana Angelini Present a Christmas Exhibition of landscapes, Thames scenes, still-lives and flower peices.
Terry Scales
Terry Scales was born in Rotherhithe, South London, at that time a busy community of Thames Watermen and visiting sailors. This early background created a deep affection for London's River and the vigorous commercial activities that permeate a bustling port. Thames motives became a central part of his subject matter, but he also enjoys a wide variety of landscape scenes; the blackberry covered hedges of Shoreham in Kent being a particular favourite.
Fifty years ago he exhibited his first painting alongside David Bomberg at the age of 16, and since then has shown continuously in mixed shows with the English and Scottish Arts Council, The Royal Academy, English Heritage, The National Maritime Museum, The Royal Festival Hall, Whitechapel Gallery, Austin Desmond Fine Art and Michael Parkin amongst many others.
Terry has appeared in several recent T.V. documentaries on London artists and is listed in the following books; Dictionary of British Art, Vol. 6, by Francis Spalding, Camberwell school of Art, its Students and Teachers, by Geoff Hassell and David Beckman's, Contemporary Survey.
Commissions have included, Tate & Lyle, Scruttons PLC, The National Maritime Museum, the Civil Service and many private collectors.
Visit Terry Scales website
Cristiana Angelini
Cristiana Angelini studied for a Diploma in Fine Art and Art History in Carrara and Florence before moving to England in the sixties. Over the years, her oil paintings and pastels have been enjoyed by visitors and buyers at many top London galleries, including the Royal Academy, Whitechapel Gallery and the Twentieth Century Art Fair. In 1990 she was awarded first prize in the Laing Collection Exhibition for London and the South East and in 1995, her work was selected for inclusion in the world renown Bridgeman Art Library collection.
She is currently based in London where she continues to paint, undertake commissions.
Terry and Cristiana will be at the gallery during their artist day on
Saturday 7th November 10.30am 3.00pm.
2nd November - 14th November 2009
EXHIBITION NO.43
Spot on Art & Photography
Things Behind The Sun
About Us
Spot On Art & Photography, a new partnership company by Artist and Photographers, Bichelle Masrani and Gary Clarke bring together a fresh, contemporary collection of limited edition acrylic frames, giclée prints and original paintings.
Bichelle Masrani
Recently, I've started to combine the diverse subjects studied, bringing together an unusual and eclectic mix of materials or practices, such as the Tutti fruity illustration, which combine the graffiti style which I so like but in a fusion of hand drawn and digital work. The magical thing about the creative process, I have found, is that you start off with a plan, but it always takes its own course as the work progresses. The end piece is never what you've planned, it's always so much better!
Gary Clarke
Painting is a meditative experience and brings me to a space of peace and contemplation on the elemental component of my work; the mysterious nature of things. Inspired by the transcendent quality of light, which transforms a seemingly mundane surface to a luminous brilliance, colours are layered over a textured background producing a vibrant luminous canvas, in which I find limitless freedom when painting, and gives me a feeling of rapture.
For more details about the artist please go to www.spotonart.com
12th October - 24th October 2009
Private View Thursday 22nd October 6pm-9pmEXHIBITION NO.42
Laszlo Forras
Unfinished thoughts
Painters are often asked, how do they know when a picture is perfect?
(A fair question, indeed. Precisely why it has become cliché.)
Well, what if one paints with light? When is the image complete? When the idea takes hold in the brain? When you press the button on the camera? In the darkroom? On a gallery wall? Among the beholder's thoughts, sauntering homeward?
Life's first thirty years are capitalized, belong to great sighs that precede sentences, to intense beginnings. We start thoughts, only to leave them to themselves. Images remain stuck in the depth of a closet, unframable.
The thirtieth year tends to reflect, to slightly purge. To complete some sentences, or put three dots at the end of others. To dust and frame the pictures….
For more details about the artist please go to www.laszloforras.com
EXHIBITION NO.41
Peter Denmark
Our first exhibition was Peter Denmark and his work is back with a vengeance, We are blessed with this exciting exhibition.
16
stunning abstract landscapes painted on canvas, they are a blast of
colour and life which draws the viewer into a their own magical world. Peter Denmark has exhibited widely in London and been Commissioned to paint large works for Cable and Wireless HQ, Stansted and Glasgow airports, Co-op, and Orange HQ. His work has been sold in contemporary art auctions alongside Banksy, John Hoyland and Lucian Freud.
We
are extremely proud to offer our patrons the opportunity to see this
exciting show, due to the demand and the nature of this show, this
exhibition will be open by appointment only.
9th July - 20th August 2009
EXHIBITION NO.40
Cristiana Angelini
Cristiana Angelini is an artist specialising in oil paintings, pastels and charcoal drawings of the English landscape.
Cristiana
Angelini studied for a Diploma in Fine Art and Art History in Carrara
and Florence before moving to England in the sixties. Over the years,
her oil paintings and pastels have been enjoyed by visitors and buyers
at many top London galleries, including the Royal Academy, Whitechapel
Gallery and the Twentieth Century Art Fair. In 1990 she was awarded
first prize in the Laing Collection Exhibition for London and the South
East and in 1995, her work was selected for inclusion in the world
renown Bridgeman Art Library collection.
She is currently based
in London where she continues to paint, undertake commissions and work
as a Visiting Lecturer at the Adult Education College for Bexley.
Cristiana will be working in residence during the exhibition, please feel to come in a discuss her work. 15th June - 27th June 2009
EXHIBITION NO.39
Veta Gorner
This solo exhibition brings together over 50 original works from award-winning London based artist-printmaker Veta Gorner.
In
the wake of recent successes at the prestigious “Originals” Printmaking
exhibition, Veta showcases a series of etchings exploring the
expressive nature of human form. Entitled “Ornithology” the show is a
visual study of migration, transitions and spaces occupied by a human
being.
The work fuses a variety of techniques from sculptural
deep bite etching to monoprinting (with its multiple layers of colour)
creating unique fine art impressions that challenge the perception of
printmaking as a “secondary” art form; demanding non-apologetic
attention and respect.
“...My mainly figurative images do not
explore the individuality of human bodies; rather my work considers
figures as signs or symbols, distilling emotions and feelings into
distinctive and expressive forms. I am interested in the expressive
nature of human motion and its relation to space, where collisions of
inward and outward shapes create an electrifying borderline energy. My
work is an exploration of mental and physical sensations – of how it
feels and what it means to be alive.”
1st June - 13th June 2009
Private View 6-9pm
11th June 2009
For more information about the artist go to www.vetagorner.com
EXHIBITION NO.38
Vanessa Bouvier
Vanessa
Bouvier is a fine and mural artist. Her oil portraits, a reminiscence
of Art Deco, are very stylised with an hint of eroticism and feminine
provocation.
She has recently started a new series using vinyl records as a medium delving into Pop Art.
18th May - 30th May 2009
Private View 3-6pm
23rd May 2009
For more information about the artist go to www.vanessart.net
EXHIBITION NO.37
Louise Davies
Louise
Davies is a Painter and Printmaker who lives and works in South
London. She studied Painting at St Martins and then did an M.A in
Printmaking at Camberwell. She shares a studio with five other
professional artists. Her work is concerned with the landscape, she
works from sketches that she does of her local surroundings and often
works from memories of places she has visited from the past. Her
compositions usually begin with a very singular way of drawing,
expertly suggesting the underlying structure with a spontaneous and
expressive line. She then covers whole sections with sensual washes of
pure pigment. The surface quickly becomes a map of strong verticals
partly obscured by great swathes of horizontal colour. She works
spontaneously, producing results at once both sensitive and vigourous.
She
exhibits in galleries throughout the United Kingdom. She has works in
Public Collections such as the Citigroup (Canary Wharf ) and St Georges
Hospital (London)
For more information about the artist go to www.louisedavies.com4th May - 16th May 2009
EXHIBITION NO.36
VIC BATEMAN
Vic
Bateman is best known for his lyrical, music inspired abstract
paintings comprising saturated fields of colour built up with layers of
overlaid squares and spots. In this new series of works he responds to
images of heads, sourced mainly from media imagery, allowing the images
to bleed over the surface, stretch and metamorphose. They engage with
portraiture, the de-construction of imagery and our perception of our
fellow human beings.
Vic Bateman's work is in private
collections around the world including Thomas Cook Ltd., The University
of Otago, New Zealand and The Hyde Park Gallery, London. His work will
be familiar to Greenwich residents as his large canvases were regularly
displayed at the Warwick Leadlay Gallery, and are now to be seen at the
Bar de Musee on Nelson Road.
20th April - 2nd May 2009Private View 6-9pm
23rd April 2009
EXHIBITION NO.35
DAMEON PRIESTLY
This retrospective takes in Dameon’s work from the past 5 years. Each of the different ‘stories’ told are loosely based in 1970s and early 1980s, citing the dark side of the ‘American dream’ as their seed.
30th March - 18th April 2009For more information about the artist go to www.dameon.co.uk
EXHIBITION NO.34
PIERRE JULIEN
Labour of Love
‘Labour of love’ by Pierre and Julien is a celebrationof two artists who have decided to collaborate with each other for the first time, studying each other in bold colours and tell-ing their story in and on paper.”
EXHIBITION NO.32
Jenny Wiggins
Memory & Place
‘Jenny Wiggins uses maps as descriptions of place, both past and present, over-painted with colour. Her work is a personal archaeological dig.The maps are sealed on aluminium, wood, or paper on to which thin layers of paint are then laid down to form strata. She then sands them; scraping away the surface excavating and uncovering places for which only she can ever know the full significance. We are left to wonder why that street? That hill? That patch of land?The fragments of maps begin to have a personal resonance for the viewer. Maps, which usually act as guides to find the way, may become signifiers for memory and pleasure, sadness and loss, history and experience.
EXHIBITION NO.31
Kelly Washbourne
Urban Organic Art
Kelly's abstract oil paintings on canvas are made by layering paint, using colours and marks to create a space that balances
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