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This weekend Lambeth Open will be celebrating the colour and creativity of our South London borough. I will again be exhibiting at number 17 Regent Road, Herne Hill SE24 0EL with the lovely printmaker Kate Bowe, fellow artist Gabrielle Bradshaw and jeweller Victoria Wainwright.

I will be exhibiting my usual portraits of “pets and people, flesh and fur” as well as a selection of original lino cuts, prints and cards. Examples of all our work can be seen on the Lambeth Open web page www.lambethopen.com.

We will be holding a private view on Friday night from 7pm onwards for a more personal viewing with drink and nibbles. You are more than welcome to pop along.

Hope to see you this weekend.

Very pleased with my latest two commissions fresh off the easel of Erik the very smiley three year old and Poppy the golden Labradoodle. Hope you like.

Thanks to the organisers, volunteers and everyone who visited my stand at Urban Art 2022. Thankfully the weather did not get as hot as predicted and it was so good to be back after a two year Covid absence. Looking forward to next year already.

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So glad to be in my new studio and painting again. Here is my latest commissioned work which is of a lovely cat called Baby BlueBell. Hope you like her.

Also looking forward to exhibiting at Urban Art 2022 in Brixton SW2 the weekend 16th and 17th July. If you are in South London please pop along and say hello. I’ll be outside my house at pitch number H1 next to the Information Desk.

So glad to be exhibiting at Urban Art again for real, rather than virtually, this year. As usual we’ll be taking over Brixton’s leafy Josephine Avenue for the weekend 16th and 17th July and showing a dazzling display of South London creativity in including paintints, photography, print making and mixed media.

You’ll find my stand outside my house in the middle of the avenue on the south side next to the information desk. Do please pop along and say hello. This year the event coincides with the Brockwell Park Country Fair so you can make a whole day or weekend of it.

It feels so good that the Art Fairs are now returning and life is slowly getting back to normal after these testing times. Lambeth Open was an absolute joy and then two weeks later I will be exhibiting at the Teddington Landmark Autumn Art Fair from Friday 15th to Sunday 17th October. Bit like waiting for a bus, they all come at once. You will find me at my usual stand number 58 which you will find near the beginning of your tour round the show.

The exhibition is open 1pm to 8pm on Friday and then 10am to 4pm Saturday and Sunday. If you have never been before, the Landmark Arts Centre is housed in an impressively large Victorian Church near the banks of the River Thames. This is a lovely area to visit and well worth the trip. There is free parking in neighbouring roads, or it’s an eleven minute walk from Teddington Station. Hope to see you later.

Thanks to everyone who came to our last open studios at Carlew House in West Norwood. It was a fitting end to an era with probably the most amount of visitors we have ever had over the Lambeth Open weekend.

I have been there for around ten years now and it will be a wrench to leave, but we have no other choice. The sad fact is that property developers have more clout than us artists and studio space is becoming more and more difficult to find, and increasingly expensive as well. This is probably why so many artists are being forced out of the Capital.

Hopefully I have a solution, and fingers crossed it all come off otherwise I will have to stop painting and printing. More news later.