Capture Waltham Forest Exhibition and Turnaround Gallery show

I am pleased to have had one of my photographs exhibited in the Capture Waltham Forest Exhibition. The selected photographs from the competition will be on show at the vestry House Museum 1st June till the 30th September. I'm still waiting to hear the details of the private view.

Website for the exhibition is here

Waltham Forest Arts Club has been chosen to have one of the market units in Wood Street, there will be a re-launch of the market on February 11th where more art and craft makers will also be opening their units. Wood Street Market site here Website for Turnaround The arts club unit/gallery here




The arts club has a group show to open Turnaround which is the programme of exhibitions running till April. I've put in a small painting in for the group show. The launch day on Saturday 11th February is from 12 till 3pm and there will be live art, poetry and music sessions.

I'm also showing work in the second exhibition Jewels of Imagination, with another artist Sanyukta and Ellen a jeweler
Link to our exhibition page here

I Do Like To Be Beside The Lea exhibition

Waltham Forest Arts Club is showing work now at the Waterworks Nature Reserve info about the waterworks here in an exhibition called I Do Like To be beside The Lea. More info here There is a good mix of work, sculpture, including a large fascinating piece by Martin Adams, Martin's site here
Photographs,including some atmospheric photos by Paul Tucker, info about Paul's work here paintings and drawings, ceramics and textiles. The show is mixed in between the usual display about the Waterworks, the old filter beds that now make a sanctuary for birds. Perhaps surprisingly it works out pretty well.
There are other works out side including Katja's and Helen's pieces, like seaside amusements where you put your head through a hole in a picture. Katja's site here


I am showing an interactive 3D piece, Landscape by Design, made of acrylic cubes with photo images on 5 sides and a quote on the other. The photos are of landscapes in London, some from the waterworks, and other urban scenes. You can face the cubes to make different landscapes.



At the opening, the The Rose and Crown Singers (Director: Aaron Clingham) performed the premiere of "The Rival Engineers" by Eleanor Firman.

Beyond Words Exhibition and Elephant Parade

Saturday 15th of May is the opening of the Waltham Forest Arts Club exhibition Beyond Words. Our new venue, since the Changing Room Gallery will be closed for redevelopment, is in the Red Room in the arts and theatre pub, Ye Olde Rose and Crown in Hoe street Walthamstow. info about the venue here

I have put in 2 pieces of work, one artists book called Bird and one mixed media piece a bird light with words written on it.
Arts Club website here

There have been dozens of painted elephants appearing on the streets of London over the last week or so. They are a fundraising installation for the charity Elephant Family info here

They have been painted by famous designers and artists and I have been photographing them as I go out and about.

Winter Exhibition at Vestry House.

The Waltham Forest Arts Club has a winter exhibition on at the Vestry House Museum at the moment. I have 2 small paintings in there and was invigilating on Sunday.
It's a small space in a quirky local museum, but it is valuable in being one of the few spaces available in the borough to show art work.

There is a range of work on show from video, printmaking, 3D, painting and photography. My paintings are imaginary winter landscapes referencing popular images used at this time of year to sell all sorts of wares. But there is something about these sorts of landscapes that appeals to me and others I presume. Perhaps something about the wildness or remoteness of these spaces and the sense of an idyllic place somewhere that we might visit.

Katja was showing a Memory Game using a number of artists images reflecting on the borough

Julie caves is showing a beautifully coloured painting Twilight Pauline Evans ceramic piece Lyme Avenue made me smile and DNA Dilemma an installation by Anna Spain was intriguing.

Waltham Forest Summer exhibition. and May Day.

The Arts Club Summer Exhibition went well. There was a good selection of work exhibited, including sculpture, prints, photographs and paintings. Katja Rosenberg always has some great participatory art work, this year it was on the theme of heros. It was good to invigilate on a couple of days and interact with the visitors.
Being in the park means that if the weather is bad, few people come along, but if it's nice and sunny of course the park fills up and there are a lot more visitors.

The gallery is due to be closed and knocked down early next year, a new building is planned but won't be open for probably 2 years. The whole park is having a revamp, I can't help but be

worried especially by the number of trees that will be cut down.

Last month I was in the park for the May Day celebrations, the Maypole dancers and Morris dancers were there braving the rather cold and windy weather.

Waltham Forest Summer exhibition.

I took my pieces of work down to the Changing Room Gallery for the Waltham Forest Arts group Summer Exhibition. As usual my work is very different from last years. I have been working on some 'wanted' posters, using examples of behaviour that goes against the law in some way, but using birds instead of humans.

This is what I wrote about the work for the exhibition.
In this piece I have explored environmental concerns and social controls through subverting the symbolic "wanted" poster. Though humorous in intent, the work is also a comment on the nature of growing bureaucracy, the freedom of the birds is contrasted with the growing loss of freedom in our own lives. It is also a comment on the human demands for growth and profit that has lead to a decline in some of our most loved birds including the sparrow. We are thus also the "wanted" as declared on the posters.


I mounted the posters on pieces of plywood that have been distressed and look well used.

The exhibition is on from today 1st June till Sunday 7th June at The Changing Room Gallery with a reception/ event on Saturday 6th June.