Vertigo

This November I was part of a two woman show at the Ben Oakley Gallery with the lovely Kim Tong. The title of the show Vertigo was about moments of unease and uncertainty and how we try to stabilise while in that altered state.

The show was on for two weeks in November and included large and small canvases as well as several fragile glass objects that I painted.  A retro purple glass vase with the spray painted image of an in angel wrapped around it and a murmuration of birds individually painted on transparent paper that overlapped allowing the image of other shapes to blur through.

If you did not get to see the show you can view it on Google Earth by going to 9 Turnpin Lane in Greenwich London and while at street view click on the white arrows that lead you into the Ben Oakley Gallery and look around. You can also go upstairs in the gallery and look at the paintings of all the other artist that show their work there.

Mardy

Friday night was the private view for Rowan Newton and Carne Griffiths' joint show called "Mardy" at the Ben Oakley Gallery.  All the work features one model as their subject represented in their own individual style.

                           
  
The Gallery was overflowing with collectors, artists and friends of the Gallery who went on to socialise  until early morning.

A joint limited edition print featured a side by side portrait by each artist making it possible to have both  Carne and Rowan's work in one picture. For more information and image see the  Ben Oakley Gallery website Show runs until the 22nd September 2013.

                                     

Sparrow in the B.O.G.

While looking after the Ben Oakley Gallery a couple of Sundays ago I had time to make a very short movie of one of my sparrow paintings on the very distinctive gallery walls.

David Bray

David Bray has a one man show on at the Ben Oakley Gallery Greenwich of new work entitled Far Out is Not Far Enough.  I went along to the private view on Thursday night.

  
The gallery was packed with people including the artist himself who was surrounded for most the night with people wanting to chat to him.  And so they should, his work is detailed and beautifully drawn with some unexpected quirks hidden among the doe eyed girls and woodland creatures.

After a while of being there I was  handed a small white paper bag that had a funny little red drawing on it of a character that is in a few of his drawings, inside the bag was a liquorice pipe.  Some of the work is on card, paper, blackboard, metal and ends of old book covers that have been removed from the book.

I loved all the work and will be making a trip back to the gallery for another look and to collect the print I bought.

 

the show is on until the 29th April 2012.

Otto Schade

I went along to the Urban Schade show of Otto Schade street art at the B.O.G. in greenwich Friday night.  His work is a lot more detailed than I had thought.  What looks like a plain black background  is actually a area of black on black type or imagery. 

Photographing this is not easy so you need to go and see it. The show is on until the 5th February 2012 where you can also find two print racks containing work of many artists at good prices.

The show soon filled up with a mix of new faces and good friends.

 

Future Art Show

This February I will have some work in a new show at the Ben Oakley Gallery in Greenwich London.  I'm not going to tell you too much about it but if you watch the video there is a small clue.  The video was filmed a few years ago when I was part of a pop up gallery for Christmas.  We were promoting the gallery by giving away original art but we were informed that we were destroying private property with drawing pins.