Solo Exhibition in November 2011

You are invited to the private view of my Solo Exhibition on Thursday 3rd November 2011 from 6.00pm to 10.00pm at The Gallery Cafe, St. Margaret's House Settlement, 21 Old Ford Road, Bethnal Green, E2 9PL.

This exhibition is a good opportunity to see a large selection of my art work from the last two years. including oil paintings, watercolours and prints.

The Exhibition is called “No Pedestrians beyond this Point”

How to find the Café Gallery

Via underground: From Bethnal Green Tube Station (Central Line), take the Museum of Childhood exit. Proceed along Museum frontage to the first corner which is Old Ford Road. Turn right into Old Ford Road and No.21 is on the other side of the road, just past York Hall.

Via bus: Nos. 8 -106 - 254 - 309 - 388 - D3 and D6.

Via car: There should be parking in Victoria Park Square, Approach Road and other surrounding roads.

Please feel free to bring along friends and colleagues, there will be a raffle the prizes of which will be limited edition prints of my work. Prints and artwork are also for sale on the evening.

Artist Statement

I have been working with various media and have recently developed urban scenes from personal photographs taken in and around the city of London.  In my current work I have been using oil paints and print making techniques, as well as image projection.

It is my intention to express the notion that previously neglected spaces in city areas can provide captivating images amidst the detritus discarded by humanity.  Much of these wastelands and unchecked areas are neglected for decades before they are released for development by which time they have become integrated into the community.  They have become a part of the local area, there to be trespassed on, traveled through, used as playgrounds, rubbish tips and short cuts from area to area.

A Rainy Night in the City - 2011

A rainy night in the City.

An oil painting of a photo taken on the way to Liverpool Street Station in London after visiting the 400 Women Exhibition in Shoreditch.  Whilst walking back to the station in the rain,  I liked the way the street and building lights reflected on the wet pavement and the buildings glimmered in the night sky.  People hunched up in the rain rushing to their various destinations, buses in the distance turning the corner, nearly to the station which is just around the bend depicted through the blurred vision of the viewer.  A hive of activity irrespective of the wet and cold weather.

End of Year Show - 2011

Please see details of the End of Year Private View for 2011.

Would be lovely to see you there

End of Year Exhibition

Private View:

Friday June 10th 2011

6.00pm onwards

Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Installation

University of East London
Docklands Campus

AVA Building, University Way
London E16 2RD

Tube:   Cyprus DLR

Parking available on Campus via University Way

"Bulgaria in Our Eyes"

This painted was created for The World in our Eyes Exhibition exhibition at the Bulgarian Embassy.

"Bulgaria in our Eyes"

Painting of the Alexander Nevsky Russian Church in Sophia, Bulgaria - for the World in Our Eyes Series of Exhibitions.

Latest Paintings

 Behind the Fence.

An oil painted image from a photo taken whilst walking around my local area.   This picture could be from anywhere, it depicts a mass of disorderly plant growth rising from the earth but kept behind a mesh fence.  Nature, but kept out, kept back, kept away.

 


Ontario Tower

Oil on Canvas.  Every time I travel through Blackwall, the O2 building peeps through the gaps, once described as a "Great White Elephant".  The landscape of London's docklands is changing at an accelerated rate now that the Olympics are almost upon us and is almost unrecognisable from the the Docklands of 10 years ago.