I’ve been doing a lot of work with Croydon University Hospital recently and am delighted that they now have two very large sets of six prints and three of my originals. I’m still waiting to find out the eventual homes of one set of prints and the original paintings but the first set of prints on laminate are already brightening up the ‘Yellow Walkway’ just near the outpatient clinic.
My December exhibition at the Click-Clock Gallery in the ClockTower Cafe, Croydon opens on the 1st December and will continue until 3rd January. Here are some of the original paintings that are on show.
I’ve been doing lots of early morning walks and runs lately so it’s not too surprising that my latest paintings all seem to focus on early mornings. This on is called ‘A New Day’ and will be at Stanley Halls for the ‘Christmas Shopping Emporium’ this weekend and then at the Clocktower Cafe for December.
These are my entries for this years CAS annual Exhibition which will run at the Sun Lounge, Fairfield Halls from Nov 17th to Nov 29th.
There will be some cards available at the show too and I have a print of Back-Ground available on my shop pages.
This is a new little painting of the moon over South Norwood Hill with a couple of lovers at the bus stop and a lot of people heading to Stanley Halls for an Event. It’s a scene that I first wanted to paint back in early September. We were driving home passed the Halls and pulled up in traffic to find ourselves stunned by a huge full moon shinning over the old tower and halls, it was great but getting the reference info has been a bit of a pain. My camera is useless at night so there has been lots of playing around working out the lighting and shadows. I hope to do a larger version some time soon although I might remove one of the cars….. they are never my favourite thing.
In the meantime I still have paintings up in the gallery at Stanley Halls and they will be open this Sat for a couple of free halloween themed films: Frankenweenie at 1pm and An American Warewoolf in London at 7pm. One of the things I like most about Stanley Halls is that the volunteers running it are trying really hard to make it work for the local community. http://stanleypeoplesinitiative.wordpress.com/2014/10/10/a-pillar-of-the-community/
Results are out for the pre-selected works for this year’s UA Members exhibition at the Bankside Gallery on the South Bank. I’m really pleased to have four pictures which will be in this years exhibition space permitting.
Check out the full exhibition at http://www.the-ua.org.uk/banksidegallery/banksidegallery.htm
The Lambeth Open is coming up fast and it’s keeping me busy preparing some new paintings for the event as well as sorting out prints and cards. Again I plan to take a mix of Croydon and non Croydon paintings including a couple of new paintings inspired by this year’s rainy London Pride.
I’m rely looking forward to showing in a new venue and meeting lots of new artists. The work showing on the online gallery is wonderful in its variety always a good sign in my opinion. One of the great things about taking part in events like this is to meet all the other artists and find out how they approach their work.
I’m a bit sad though to be missing the chance of visiting all the studios which will also be open during the weekend. Peeking into someone else’s work space is always good for chatting about techniques and materials.
I will be showing at the Portico Gallery in West Norwood, 4-5th October 10am-6pm alongside a whole host of other exciting artists http://www.lambethopen.com/portico-lower-gallery/
There are also a host of artists and crafts people with open studios that weekend, take a look at http://www.lambethopen.com/ for the map and full details of all participating artists.
The Stanley Halls Gallery was already looking great when I left an hour or so ago after hanging eight original paintings and two prints. Stanley Halls was originally designed and built by William Stanley who also founded the ‘Stanley Works’ of ‘Stanley knife’ fame. It is a grand public building in the true Victorian philanthropic style, built alongside the technical school it has a fine theatre, a well designed gallery with loads of diffuse natural light as well as meeting rooms. The whole space is being lovingly brought back into use by a very enthusiastic local community and it looks like going on to become an excellent addition to the local arts scene.
Tomorrows Open House tours should be really interesting and with the cafe running and art up in the gallery waiting for the tours to get started should be enjoyable too. Everything will be kicking off at 10am and the last tour will be at 4:45pm.
Here are some photos of the paintings going up.
The Portico Gallery is organising a ‘Blind Auction’ of small paintings by participating artists at this year’s Lambeth Open. The panels are all 15X15cm and will be sold to raise funds for SRA, a charity supporting people with mental health issues, to get back to work.
My entry, is called ‘ Come share my umbrella’ and is based on this years rather rainy London Pride. I’ve rather enjoyed doing it, so I think I might work on a couple more paintings under this theme. The paintings will be going up in the window of the SRA Copy shop on Knights Hill, West Norwood. Contact the Portico Gallery if you would like to make a bid on any of them. Apparently a ‘blind auction’ means you won’t know what anyone else has bid on the picture….. I had no idea what it meant when I first heard the term.
Today I opened ‘Bev Jones Art’ the Etsy shop, so that you can now buy paintings and prints online. I only have two small paintings added right now but will be working on adding the others over the next few weeks. You should be able to see the shop navigation in both the sidebar and the top navigation bar of my website, you can also go directly to the shop at https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/BevJonesArt
I’ve chosen Etsy because they have a great reputation for customer service handle the money side of things securely without me needing to become a technical expert. All of which is very handy, have fun browsing and if you spot any problems or mistakes please let me know!
