While my practice is grounded in printmaking, I revel in breaking down the limitations of materials and reinventing traditional handicrafts. My highly tactile works capture a child like sense of delight with a combination of humour and melancholy.
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My early work, 1950s/60s, grew out of great admiration for C. Permeke, Picasso, Cubists and especially Goya’s Black paintings whose horizontal format continues to intrigue and challenge me.
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I try to do no more than I know.
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“I now thought of myself as living the life of a writer. . . ”
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My work is the result of an ongoing dialogue between video and painting; I work with time, change and a shifting sense of presence or absence. I particularly focus on relationships between people captured on film through sound, rhythms, words and movement.
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I make acrylic paintings in the studio in addition to various mixed media works made outside direct from the landscape.
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For me, painting celebrates the moment. It is a primal discovery of normality and impossibility cultivating everyday sensations that can be seen or felt.
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Pattern recognition is crucial to humans, it helps us understand and predict what is coming.
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. . . EMBRACING THE UNDERDOG is taking place in the underground car park in Gerrard Street right at the very centre of the Chinese New Year celebrations for the Year of the Dog. . . . . in Chinatown – the biggest Chinese New Year celebrations outside Asia EMBRACING…
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Altered States a London Group and Friends exhibition at Waterloo Festival 2018. Photograph by Eleanor Bentall
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Every other year we have an Open exhibition where members of the public are invited to exhibit alongside members.
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In years without an Open we have an Annual exhibition for members. Our latest Annual Exhibition was in December 2018, showcasing work by around 60 members.
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The group is not limited to exhibiting in London. We have shows all around the country and abroad. The Shoreham Scultpture Trail in Kent saw the group work alongside artist friends. Artwork Tisna Westerhof
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As well as exhibitions the group runs other events and Salons. This photo was from the Draw in 2012, an auction to raise money for the group.
Read more. . . EMBRACING THE UNDERDOG is taking place in the underground car park in Gerrard Street right at the very centre of the Chinese New Year celebrations for the Year of the Dog. . . . . in Chinatown – the biggest Chinese New Year celebrations outside Asia The…
Read moreINFORMATION FOR ARTISTS Submission/Access code: penlg18 (with a lowercase L) deadline for completing submission : 27 May 2018 PENWITH Delivery Delivery to The Cello Factory 2 Sept 11-1pm Collection from The Cello Factory 6 Oct 11-1pm. Submission fee Members £20 Terms and Conditions The London Group accept no…
Read moreINFORMATION FOR ARTISTS Responding to the festival theme, ‘Transforming Minds’, ephemeral, site-specific sculptures by over 30 artists explore wide-ranging approaches to change, transformation and the ephemeral. Submission portal is now closed Please email Susan Haire any outstanding info: [email protected]. Thank you. Submission fee, members £15, non-members voluntary contribution Waterloo Festival…
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Every 2 years The London Group holds an Open Exhibition where members of the public are selected from the open submission and are exhibited alongside the group members in two large exhibitions at the Cello Factory near London Waterloo. The 2019 Open is now closed. Judging will take place in…
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14 Oct-14 Nov, 2020. We are pleased to announce The London Group Annual opens this month, exhibiting the work of 68 members of the Group. This year the exhibition is online.
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Read moreSpeech given by Tommy Seaward LG, former London Group Secretary, during the handover celebrations at the Cello Factory, 5 Aug 2021
Read moreSpeech by Gill Ingham DVPLG during the handover celebrations at the Cello Factory, 5 Aug 2021
Read moreOur newsletter comes out three times a year, in April, August and December. You can access our latest newsletter and the newsletter archive here: NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE
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