I hope you are enjoying the late summer sunshine. St. Leonards is a great place to live particularly when the sun is out!
In my last newsletter, there were a couple of spelling errors, My apologies to Tessa and Markus Thonett which I now hope are correct.
I spoke in my last newsletter about exhibitions I have coming up, well my latest one is less than two weeks away! A group show with my good friends Oli Spleen and Wolfgang Dubieniec at the Electro Studios Landing Gallery in St Leonards.
Some of you know Oli and Wolfgang. To give you a bit more detail about their work Oli Spleen started as a visual artist in the 1990s with paintings and later with sculpture and film. Having to leave the University of East London after the second year of his BA due to AIDS-related complications, he started to approach writing as an art form, later branching out to music, performance and songwriting. His work continues to draw on all these elements. Wolfgang Dubieniec is a filmmaker, musician & visual artist with a broad body of work in photography, music videos, sound design, songwriting and installation. With a first-class BA Honours in digital music and sound arts, his work strongly focuses on creating experiences of emotion, nostalgia and memory through various mediums.
Please view my Events page for details, times, locations etc
In my studio preparing canvases for new work for the In Harms Way exhibition in September.
My assistant Jeff the cat doing his best to help me out but mainly sleeping!
Contagion is one of my older pieces and is currently in an exhibition at The Hasting Art Forum Gallery in St Leonards, which runs until 17th September.
I like to feature other artists, Two artists whom I have recently interviewed Anne Lydiat and Alison Claire France are artists who both have a really interesting way of mark-making and both use drawing as the main medium in their practice, something that I also do but that doesn't always feature in the finished piece.
Looking forward to hopefully seeing you at In Harms Way or an exhibition soon. Please contact me if you would like to arrange a studio visit in person or an online tour.