Christina Eberhart: Do you Hear the Flowers Sing?
1-14 July 2022
The title of Christina Eberhart’s exhibition ‘Do you hear the flowers sing?’ is a reference to the work of Anthropologist Natasha Myers, whose study of our interconnectedness with nature has inspired the artist. Plants have an agency and a unique intelligence which needs to be acknowledged.
‘The recognition that plants are breathing us into being, that their exhaling is the possibility of our inhale’ – Natasha Myers
The exhibition includes paintings, drawings, prints and cyanotypes.
The paintings are playful celebrations of colour and shape, and a sensory response to the exuberance found in plant life. Christina Eberhart is exploring and experimenting with how to show nature in art. She invents or paints from memory, then simplifies and refines the imagery, so that the paintings sit at the intersection between representation and abstraction. The intention is to provide a liminal space, with scope for the viewer to respond to them in their own personal way.
Plants and trees are an absolute necessity and integral to our lives and Christina explores and examines our relationship to them. Recent science is making astonishing discoveries about the behaviour of plants: their ability to communicate and procreate while rooted to the spot is helped by their unique sensory faculties and strategic choices of colour, light and environment.
For the works on paper, Christina applies a range of methods and processes that lend themselves particularly well to responding and capturing different types of phenomena and natural elemental influences. She works with plant dyes on textiles, and with an early photographic method called cyanotype.
The artist finds cyanotypes endlessly fascinating because the outcome depends directly on light and water. She will be showing several in the exhibition, and offering a workshop on the subject during the show for those who are interested in making their own.
Included in the exhibition is a series of paintings and drawings depicting crows and ravens, which add an element of ancient naturistic symbolism to the show. In the world of mythology and augury there are countless interpretations pertaining to these clever birds, from foretelling death and renewal to a change in circumstances. Hence they are apt symbols for the challenging times we live in.
Christina Eberhart is an artist living and working in London. She trained at Central St. Martins (2001) and her work has been included in numerous shows in London and abroad and is enjoyed by private collectors.
Drop-in Cyanotype workshop Sunday 10 July during Gallery opening hours.
Christina Eberhart: Do you Hear the Flowers Sing?
1-14 July 2022
The title of Christina Eberhart’s exhibition ‘Do you hear the flowers sing?’ is a reference to the work of Anthropologist Natasha Myers, whose study of our interconnectedness with nature has inspired the artist. Plants have an agency and a unique intelligence which needs to be acknowledged.
‘The recognition that plants are breathing us into being, that their exhaling is the possibility of our inhale’ – Natasha Myers
The exhibition includes paintings, drawings, prints and cyanotypes.
The paintings are playful celebrations of colour and shape, and a sensory response to the exuberance found in plant life. Christina Eberhart is exploring and experimenting with how to show nature in art. She invents or paints from memory, then simplifies and refines the imagery, so that the paintings sit at the intersection between representation and abstraction. The intention is to provide a liminal space, with scope for the viewer to respond to them in their own personal way.
Plants and trees are an absolute necessity and integral to our lives and Christina explores and examines our relationship to them. Recent science is making astonishing discoveries about the behaviour of plants: their ability to communicate and procreate while rooted to the spot is helped by their unique sensory faculties and strategic choices of colour, light and environment.
For the works on paper, Christina applies a range of methods and processes that lend themselves particularly well to responding and capturing different types of phenomena and natural elemental influences. She works with plant dyes on textiles, and with an early photographic method called cyanotype.
The artist finds cyanotypes endlessly fascinating because the outcome depends directly on light and water. She will be showing several in the exhibition, and offering a workshop on the subject during the show for those who are interested in making their own.
Included in the exhibition is a series of paintings and drawings depicting crows and ravens, which add an element of ancient naturistic symbolism to the show. In the world of mythology and augury there are countless interpretations pertaining to these clever birds, from foretelling death and renewal to a change in circumstances. Hence they are apt symbols for the challenging times we live in.
Christina Eberhart is an artist living and working in London. She trained at Central St. Martins (2001) and her work has been included in numerous shows in London and abroad and is enjoyed by private collectors.
Drop-in Cyanotype workshop Sunday 10 July during Gallery opening hours.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Enjoy an evening of Music Hall with Orla Roberts, Cathy Joyner, Sheila Miller, Sue Yager, Fiona Slater, & Martin Nail, with Racker Donnelly in the Chair and Derek Marcus at the piano.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Come and find up to 30 brilliant designer/makers at The Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution this September. The fair opens on Friday 9 September: 2pm – 7pm, Saturday 10 September: 10am – 6pm, Sunday 11 September: 11am – 5pm. The HLSI library will also be hosting a book sale. Entrance is FREE and everyone is welcome!
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Come and find up to 30 brilliant designer/makers at The Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution this September. The fair opens on Friday 9 September: 2pm – 7pm, Saturday 10 September: 10am – 6pm, Sunday 11 September: 11am – 5pm. The HLSI library will also be hosting a book sale. Entrance is FREE and everyone is welcome!
Come and find up to 30 brilliant designer/makers at The Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution this September. The fair opens on Friday 9 September: 2pm – 7pm, Saturday 10 September: 10am – 6pm, Sunday 11 September: 11am – 5pm. The HLSI library will also be hosting a book sale. Entrance is FREE and everyone is welcome!
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Anne McNeill Pulati – Allegories and Metaphors
16-29 September 2022
Anne McNeill Pulati uses the figure as a vehicle, metaphorically and pictorially, in her creative practice. These images are her personal reflections of human experience and spirituality.
Inspiration and research for the work includes ancient and modern belief systems, myths and legends, and cultural variations from around the world, particularly regarding the journey of the soul. For many years she has been interested in metaphor and often incorporates motifs and symbols, ignoring compositional perspectives and using metaphysical landscapes.
Symbols which are commonly understood, such as figures, angels, flowers, rivers, and shadows appear frequently. Anne states that she is principally a colourist. The medium of paint offers her the freedom to tell a narrative through colours, textures and surfaces and allows an immediacy that encourages her imagination.
Art-making has enabled Anne to develop an understanding of the journey in life which she follows. The essence of Quakerism sits in her life’s journey. The making of a painting has come, for her, from a place which at that point is a “story beginning to unfold.”
“Through the act of creativity, I enter a process which delivers something that usually surprises me and also is not consciously designed. In this process, I receive insights and a fulfillment only by entering this activity.”
She believes that we all have gifts that are not our own, but are to share, and which may possibly benefit others. The fact that we should share our gifts is the point, and it is usually fear of failure that stops us. She says: “It doesn’t matter what you share, it’s the intention behind it that people will see.” In showing her work she hopes that those who see it, will be able to ponder on their own responses.
For more information contact the artist: info@annemcneillPulati.com
View the website: https://www.singulart.com/en/artist/anne-mcneill-pulati-10683
To subscribe to newsletter: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/h5d5y8
Contact Co-ordinator for Highgate Gallery: bethrobertson@blueyonder.co.uk
Gallery open Wed-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Anne McNeill Pulati
Allegories and Metaphors
16-29 September 2022
Anne McNeill Pulati uses the figure as a vehicle, metaphorically and pictorially, in her creative practice. These images are her personal reflections of human experience and spirituality.
Inspiration and research for the work includes ancient and modern belief systems, myths and legends, and cultural variations from around the world, particularly regarding the journey of the soul. For many years she has been interested in metaphor and often incorporates motifs and symbols, ignoring compositional perspectives and using metaphysical landscapes.
Symbols which are commonly understood, such as figures, angels, flowers, rivers, and shadows appear frequently. Anne states that she is principally a colourist. The medium of paint offers her the freedom to tell a narrative through colours, textures and surfaces and allows an immediacy that encourages her imagination.
Art-making has enabled Anne to develop an understanding of the journey in life which she follows. The essence of Quakerism sits in her life’s journey. The making of a painting has come, for her, from a place which at that point is a “story beginning to unfold.”
“Through the act of creativity, I enter a process which delivers something that usually surprises me and also is not consciously designed. In this process, I receive insights and a fulfillment only by entering this activity.”
She believes that we all have gifts that are not our own, but are to share, and which may possibly benefit others. The fact that we should share our gifts is the point, and it is usually fear of failure that stops us. She says: “It doesn’t matter what you share, it’s the intention behind it that people will see.” In showing her work she hopes that those who see it, will be able to ponder on their own responses.
For more information contact the artist: info@annemcneillPulati.com
View the website: https://www.singulart.com/en/artist/anne-mcneill-pulati-10683
To subscribe to newsletter: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/h5d5y8
Contact Co-ordinator for Highgate Gallery: bethrobertson@blueyonder.co.uk
Gallery open Wed-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00
Anne McNeill Pulati
Allegories and Metaphors
16-29 September 2022
Anne McNeill Pulati uses the figure as a vehicle, metaphorically and pictorially, in her creative practice. These images are her personal reflections of human experience and spirituality.
Inspiration and research for the work includes ancient and modern belief systems, myths and legends, and cultural variations from around the world, particularly regarding the journey of the soul. For many years she has been interested in metaphor and often incorporates motifs and symbols, ignoring compositional perspectives and using metaphysical landscapes.
Symbols which are commonly understood, such as figures, angels, flowers, rivers, and shadows appear frequently. Anne states that she is principally a colourist. The medium of paint offers her the freedom to tell a narrative through colours, textures and surfaces and allows an immediacy that encourages her imagination.
Art-making has enabled Anne to develop an understanding of the journey in life which she follows. The essence of Quakerism sits in her life’s journey. The making of a painting has come, for her, from a place which at that point is a “story beginning to unfold.”
“Through the act of creativity, I enter a process which delivers something that usually surprises me and also is not consciously designed. In this process, I receive insights and a fulfillment only by entering this activity.”
She believes that we all have gifts that are not our own, but are to share, and which may possibly benefit others. The fact that we should share our gifts is the point, and it is usually fear of failure that stops us. She says: “It doesn’t matter what you share, it’s the intention behind it that people will see.” In showing her work she hopes that those who see it, will be able to ponder on their own responses.
For more information contact the artist: info@annemcneillPulati.com
View the website: https://www.singulart.com/en/artist/anne-mcneill-pulati-10683
To subscribe to newsletter: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/h5d5y8
Contact Co-ordinator for Highgate Gallery: bethrobertson@blueyonder.co.uk
Gallery open Wed-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Anne McNeill Pulati
Allegories and Metaphors
16-29 September 2022
Anne McNeill Pulati uses the figure as a vehicle, metaphorically and pictorially, in her creative practice. These images are her personal reflections of human experience and spirituality.
Inspiration and research for the work includes ancient and modern belief systems, myths and legends, and cultural variations from around the world, particularly regarding the journey of the soul. For many years she has been interested in metaphor and often incorporates motifs and symbols, ignoring compositional perspectives and using metaphysical landscapes.
Symbols which are commonly understood, such as figures, angels, flowers, rivers, and shadows appear frequently. Anne states that she is principally a colourist. The medium of paint offers her the freedom to tell a narrative through colours, textures and surfaces and allows an immediacy that encourages her imagination.
Art-making has enabled Anne to develop an understanding of the journey in life which she follows. The essence of Quakerism sits in her life’s journey. The making of a painting has come, for her, from a place which at that point is a “story beginning to unfold.”
“Through the act of creativity, I enter a process which delivers something that usually surprises me and also is not consciously designed. In this process, I receive insights and a fulfillment only by entering this activity.”
She believes that we all have gifts that are not our own, but are to share, and which may possibly benefit others. The fact that we should share our gifts is the point, and it is usually fear of failure that stops us. She says: “It doesn’t matter what you share, it’s the intention behind it that people will see.” In showing her work she hopes that those who see it, will be able to ponder on their own responses.
For more information contact the artist: info@annemcneillPulati.com
View the website: https://www.singulart.com/en/artist/anne-mcneill-pulati-10683
To subscribe to newsletter: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/h5d5y8
Contact Co-ordinator for Highgate Gallery: bethrobertson@blueyonder.co.uk
Gallery open Wed-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00
Anne McNeill Pulati
Allegories and Metaphors
16-29 September 2022
Anne McNeill Pulati uses the figure as a vehicle, metaphorically and pictorially, in her creative practice. These images are her personal reflections of human experience and spirituality.
Inspiration and research for the work includes ancient and modern belief systems, myths and legends, and cultural variations from around the world, particularly regarding the journey of the soul. For many years she has been interested in metaphor and often incorporates motifs and symbols, ignoring compositional perspectives and using metaphysical landscapes.
Symbols which are commonly understood, such as figures, angels, flowers, rivers, and shadows appear frequently. Anne states that she is principally a colourist. The medium of paint offers her the freedom to tell a narrative through colours, textures and surfaces and allows an immediacy that encourages her imagination.
Art-making has enabled Anne to develop an understanding of the journey in life which she follows. The essence of Quakerism sits in her life’s journey. The making of a painting has come, for her, from a place which at that point is a “story beginning to unfold.”
“Through the act of creativity, I enter a process which delivers something that usually surprises me and also is not consciously designed. In this process, I receive insights and a fulfillment only by entering this activity.”
She believes that we all have gifts that are not our own, but are to share, and which may possibly benefit others. The fact that we should share our gifts is the point, and it is usually fear of failure that stops us. She says: “It doesn’t matter what you share, it’s the intention behind it that people will see.” In showing her work she hopes that those who see it, will be able to ponder on their own responses.
For more information contact the artist: info@annemcneillPulati.com
View the website: https://www.singulart.com/en/artist/anne-mcneill-pulati-10683
To subscribe to newsletter: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/h5d5y8
Contact Co-ordinator for Highgate Gallery: bethrobertson@blueyonder.co.uk
Gallery open Wed-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00
LEARN TRADITIONAL KUNG FU & TAI CHI
from Three-Time International Gold Medallist
DANIEL SHAW-ABULAFIA
at The Highgate Society, 10A South Grove, London N6 6BS
Children: Mondays weekly, 17.45 to 18.30 from September 26th
Adults: Mondays weekly, 18.30 to 19.30 from September 26th
COME TO A FREE TRIAL CLASS!
Anne McNeill Pulati – Allegories and Metaphors
16-29 September 2022
Anne McNeill Pulati uses the figure as a vehicle, metaphorically and pictorially, in her creative practice. These images are her personal reflections of human experience and spirituality.
Inspiration and research for the work includes ancient and modern belief systems, myths and legends, and cultural variations from around the world, particularly regarding the journey of the soul. For many years she has been interested in metaphor and often incorporates motifs and symbols, ignoring compositional perspectives and using metaphysical landscapes.
Symbols which are commonly understood, such as figures, angels, flowers, rivers, and shadows appear frequently. Anne states that she is principally a colourist. The medium of paint offers her the freedom to tell a narrative through colours, textures and surfaces and allows an immediacy that encourages her imagination.
Art-making has enabled Anne to develop an understanding of the journey in life which she follows. The essence of Quakerism sits in her life’s journey. The making of a painting has come, for her, from a place which at that point is a “story beginning to unfold.”
“Through the act of creativity, I enter a process which delivers something that usually surprises me and also is not consciously designed. In this process, I receive insights and a fulfillment only by entering this activity.”
She believes that we all have gifts that are not our own, but are to share, and which may possibly benefit others. The fact that we should share our gifts is the point, and it is usually fear of failure that stops us. She says: “It doesn’t matter what you share, it’s the intention behind it that people will see.” In showing her work she hopes that those who see it, will be able to ponder on their own responses.
For more information contact the artist: info@annemcneillPulati.com
View the website: https://www.singulart.com/en/artist/anne-mcneill-pulati-10683
To subscribe to newsletter: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/h5d5y8
Contact Co-ordinator for Highgate Gallery: bethrobertson@blueyonder.co.uk
Gallery open Wed-Fri 13:00-17:00, Sat 11:00-16:00, Sun 11:00-17:00
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
LEARN TRADITIONAL KUNG FU & TAI CHI
from Three-Time International Gold Medallist
DANIEL SHAW-ABULAFIA
at The Highgate Society, 10A South Grove, London N6 6BS
Children: Mondays weekly, 17.45 to 18.30 from September 26th
Adults: Mondays weekly, 18.30 to 19.30 from September 26th
COME TO A FREE TRIAL CLASS!
Wednesday 16th November 2022
7.30 pm
10A South Grove N6 6BS and on Zoom – Register for both on:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-harington-scheme-past-present-and-future-tickets-430399355057
Alison Kelly, Chair of the trustees, and former chair Tony Baker review the charity’s origins, its current programme of activities and its plans for the future.
Harington provides a unique opportunity for young adults with learning disabilities and/or difficulties, delivering individual learning programmes designed to help them into employment, further education or a more rewarding life. With an emphasis on horticultural training, the scheme also provides retail training in its charity shops.
Set up as a charity by the local community over forty years ago, Harington is located on a unique and beautiful site in Highgate, North London.
Entry £5 to include a glass of wine (£3 on Zoom). Booking via Eventbrite – click here.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-harington-scheme-past-present-and-future-tickets-430399355057
The Cycle of Life, a recurring theme in the work of Marilyn Simler, took on a deeper and more penetrating exploration during this time. Simler says, “For the first time in years, I was able to focus on creating a new body of work, working every day immersed in the flow with little interruption”. Emerging from lockdown, and being presented with the openness and thrill of the vastness of the landscape and enduring positivity of the world, explains the title of the exhibition.
What has emerged is a series that has come from within, which considers the impact of the pandemic and of being more solitary.
Simler’s works reference the magnitude of the natural world which becomes a metaphor for the life cycle. Her preoccupation is with the organic structure of plants and seed pods, and the celebratory glory of flowers, the journey from germination, sprouting, growing, budding, flowering, fading, drooping, folding in, dying, drying, merging…..to re-emergence. She observes the variety of seasonal landscapes, the sea and its treasures of shells and lumps of coral, in turn creating worlds within worlds and explored in mixed media.
Marilyn works intuitively allowing the work to develop in an unplanned exploratory manner; each piece becoming a journey of its own. The work has recognisable and abstracted forms that are integrated into abstract spaces, and she uses a variety of media including drawing, watercolours, acrylics and collage on both paper and canvas. Often a few surprise elements are integrated into the surface of the ground.
The vibrant colours and textures of Southern Africa are inherent in Simler’s work, having spent her formative years growing up there and gaining a BA Honours in Fine Arts at Wits University. After emigrating to the UK with her family she obtained an MA in Fine Arts at Middlesex University.
She has exhibited widely in both group and solo exhibitions, including the Cadogan Gallery and the Royal Opera House.
Her work is held in Public Collections, including the Rolls Building, Unilever, and the V&A print collection portfolio with the PMC Publications. Awards include the Print prize at Middlesex University, St Cuthbert’s Mill Award for the National Open Print and the Zenith Purchase Prize at the Mall Gallery London. Commissions include Royal Caribbean Cruise line, and many corporate and private commissions.
For more information www.marilynsimler.net
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
The Cycle of Life, a recurring theme in the work of Marilyn Simler, took on a deeper and more penetrating exploration during this time. Simler says, “For the first time in years, I was able to focus on creating a new body of work, working every day immersed in the flow with little interruption”. Emerging from lockdown, and being presented with the openness and thrill of the vastness of the landscape and enduring positivity of the world, explains the title of the exhibition.
What has emerged is a series that has come from within, which considers the impact of the pandemic and of being more solitary.
Simler’s works reference the magnitude of the natural world which becomes a metaphor for the life cycle. Her preoccupation is with the organic structure of plants and seed pods, and the celebratory glory of flowers, the journey from germination, sprouting, growing, budding, flowering, fading, drooping, folding in, dying, drying, merging…..to re-emergence. She observes the variety of seasonal landscapes, the sea and its treasures of shells and lumps of coral, in turn creating worlds within worlds and explored in mixed media.
Marilyn works intuitively allowing the work to develop in an unplanned exploratory manner; each piece becoming a journey of its own. The work has recognisable and abstracted forms that are integrated into abstract spaces, and she uses a variety of media including drawing, watercolours, acrylics and collage on both paper and canvas. Often a few surprise elements are integrated into the surface of the ground.
The vibrant colours and textures of Southern Africa are inherent in Simler’s work, having spent her formative years growing up there and gaining a BA Honours in Fine Arts at Wits University. After emigrating to the UK with her family she obtained an MA in Fine Arts at Middlesex University.
She has exhibited widely in both group and solo exhibitions, including the Cadogan Gallery and the Royal Opera House.
Her work is held in Public Collections, including the Rolls Building, Unilever, and the V&A print collection portfolio with the PMC Publications. Awards include the Print prize at Middlesex University, St Cuthbert’s Mill Award for the National Open Print and the Zenith Purchase Prize at the Mall Gallery London. Commissions include Royal Caribbean Cruise line, and many corporate and private commissions.
For more information www.marilynsimler.net
The Cycle of Life, a recurring theme in the work of Marilyn Simler, took on a deeper and more penetrating exploration during this time. Simler says, “For the first time in years, I was able to focus on creating a new body of work, working every day immersed in the flow with little interruption”. Emerging from lockdown, and being presented with the openness and thrill of the vastness of the landscape and enduring positivity of the world, explains the title of the exhibition.
What has emerged is a series that has come from within, which considers the impact of the pandemic and of being more solitary.
Simler’s works reference the magnitude of the natural world which becomes a metaphor for the life cycle. Her preoccupation is with the organic structure of plants and seed pods, and the celebratory glory of flowers, the journey from germination, sprouting, growing, budding, flowering, fading, drooping, folding in, dying, drying, merging…..to re-emergence. She observes the variety of seasonal landscapes, the sea and its treasures of shells and lumps of coral, in turn creating worlds within worlds and explored in mixed media.
Marilyn works intuitively allowing the work to develop in an unplanned exploratory manner; each piece becoming a journey of its own. The work has recognisable and abstracted forms that are integrated into abstract spaces, and she uses a variety of media including drawing, watercolours, acrylics and collage on both paper and canvas. Often a few surprise elements are integrated into the surface of the ground.
The vibrant colours and textures of Southern Africa are inherent in Simler’s work, having spent her formative years growing up there and gaining a BA Honours in Fine Arts at Wits University. After emigrating to the UK with her family she obtained an MA in Fine Arts at Middlesex University.
She has exhibited widely in both group and solo exhibitions, including the Cadogan Gallery and the Royal Opera House.
Her work is held in Public Collections, including the Rolls Building, Unilever, and the V&A print collection portfolio with the PMC Publications. Awards include the Print prize at Middlesex University, St Cuthbert’s Mill Award for the National Open Print and the Zenith Purchase Prize at the Mall Gallery London. Commissions include Royal Caribbean Cruise line, and many corporate and private commissions.
For more information www.marilynsimler.net
LEARN TRADITIONAL KUNG FU & TAI CHI
from Three-Time International Gold Medallist
DANIEL SHAW-ABULAFIA
at The Highgate Society, 10A South Grove, London N6 6BS
Children: Mondays weekly, 17.45 to 18.30 from September 26th
Adults: Mondays weekly, 18.30 to 19.30 from September 26th
COME TO A FREE TRIAL CLASS!
The Cycle of Life, a recurring theme in the work of Marilyn Simler, took on a deeper and more penetrating exploration during this time. Simler says, “For the first time in years, I was able to focus on creating a new body of work, working every day immersed in the flow with little interruption”. Emerging from lockdown, and being presented with the openness and thrill of the vastness of the landscape and enduring positivity of the world, explains the title of the exhibition.
What has emerged is a series that has come from within, which considers the impact of the pandemic and of being more solitary.
Simler’s works reference the magnitude of the natural world which becomes a metaphor for the life cycle. Her preoccupation is with the organic structure of plants and seed pods, and the celebratory glory of flowers, the journey from germination, sprouting, growing, budding, flowering, fading, drooping, folding in, dying, drying, merging…..to re-emergence. She observes the variety of seasonal landscapes, the sea and its treasures of shells and lumps of coral, in turn creating worlds within worlds and explored in mixed media.
Marilyn works intuitively allowing the work to develop in an unplanned exploratory manner; each piece becoming a journey of its own. The work has recognisable and abstracted forms that are integrated into abstract spaces, and she uses a variety of media including drawing, watercolours, acrylics and collage on both paper and canvas. Often a few surprise elements are integrated into the surface of the ground.
The vibrant colours and textures of Southern Africa are inherent in Simler’s work, having spent her formative years growing up there and gaining a BA Honours in Fine Arts at Wits University. After emigrating to the UK with her family she obtained an MA in Fine Arts at Middlesex University.
She has exhibited widely in both group and solo exhibitions, including the Cadogan Gallery and the Royal Opera House.
Her work is held in Public Collections, including the Rolls Building, Unilever, and the V&A print collection portfolio with the PMC Publications. Awards include the Print prize at Middlesex University, St Cuthbert’s Mill Award for the National Open Print and the Zenith Purchase Prize at the Mall Gallery London. Commissions include Royal Caribbean Cruise line, and many corporate and private commissions.
For more information www.marilynsimler.net
Wednesday 12th October 2022
7.30 pm
10A South Grove N6 6BS and on Zoom – Register for both on https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/might-drivers-walk-or-cycle-tickets-409886711187
Electric cars will be vital to London achieving net zero carbon targets because of reluctance of drivers to walk and cycle, according to David Metz, Professor of Centre for Transport Studies at UCL. This reluctance is illustrated by Highgate’s resistance to Haringey and Camden’s plans to encourage walking and cycling, arguably for good reasons including demography, suburban location, topography and road layouts. David has been described as a “guru” in understanding how people travel and his new book “Good to Go, Decarbonising Travel after the Pandemic” puts all of this into perspective, particularly his research in Copenhagen and other cities. The book has been described as “a tour de force survey from one of our most thoughtful transport experts”. He shows how the car will remain important and how transport planners and modelers keep focusing on the wrong thing in looking at time savings. Decarbonising will thus require a new way of thinking; no easy answers but lots of options.
Entry £5 to include a complimentary glass of wine (£3 on Zoom). Booking via Eventbrite
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The Cycle of Life, a recurring theme in the work of Marilyn Simler, took on a deeper and more penetrating exploration during this time. Simler says, “For the first time in years, I was able to focus on creating a new body of work, working every day immersed in the flow with little interruption”. Emerging from lockdown, and being presented with the openness and thrill of the vastness of the landscape and enduring positivity of the world, explains the title of the exhibition.
What has emerged is a series that has come from within, which considers the impact of the pandemic and of being more solitary.
Simler’s works reference the magnitude of the natural world which becomes a metaphor for the life cycle. Her preoccupation is with the organic structure of plants and seed pods, and the celebratory glory of flowers, the journey from germination, sprouting, growing, budding, flowering, fading, drooping, folding in, dying, drying, merging…..to re-emergence. She observes the variety of seasonal landscapes, the sea and its treasures of shells and lumps of coral, in turn creating worlds within worlds and explored in mixed media.
Marilyn works intuitively allowing the work to develop in an unplanned exploratory manner; each piece becoming a journey of its own. The work has recognisable and abstracted forms that are integrated into abstract spaces, and she uses a variety of media including drawing, watercolours, acrylics and collage on both paper and canvas. Often a few surprise elements are integrated into the surface of the ground.
The vibrant colours and textures of Southern Africa are inherent in Simler’s work, having spent her formative years growing up there and gaining a BA Honours in Fine Arts at Wits University. After emigrating to the UK with her family she obtained an MA in Fine Arts at Middlesex University.
She has exhibited widely in both group and solo exhibitions, including the Cadogan Gallery and the Royal Opera House.
Her work is held in Public Collections, including the Rolls Building, Unilever, and the V&A print collection portfolio with the PMC Publications. Awards include the Print prize at Middlesex University, St Cuthbert’s Mill Award for the National Open Print and the Zenith Purchase Prize at the Mall Gallery London. Commissions include Royal Caribbean Cruise line, and many corporate and private commissions.
For more information www.marilynsimler.net
The Cycle of Life, a recurring theme in the work of Marilyn Simler, took on a deeper and more penetrating exploration during this time. Simler says, “For the first time in years, I was able to focus on creating a new body of work, working every day immersed in the flow with little interruption”. Emerging from lockdown, and being presented with the openness and thrill of the vastness of the landscape and enduring positivity of the world, explains the title of the exhibition.
What has emerged is a series that has come from within, which considers the impact of the pandemic and of being more solitary.
Simler’s works reference the magnitude of the natural world which becomes a metaphor for the life cycle. Her preoccupation is with the organic structure of plants and seed pods, and the celebratory glory of flowers, the journey from germination, sprouting, growing, budding, flowering, fading, drooping, folding in, dying, drying, merging…..to re-emergence. She observes the variety of seasonal landscapes, the sea and its treasures of shells and lumps of coral, in turn creating worlds within worlds and explored in mixed media.
Marilyn works intuitively allowing the work to develop in an unplanned exploratory manner; each piece becoming a journey of its own. The work has recognisable and abstracted forms that are integrated into abstract spaces, and she uses a variety of media including drawing, watercolours, acrylics and collage on both paper and canvas. Often a few surprise elements are integrated into the surface of the ground.
The vibrant colours and textures of Southern Africa are inherent in Simler’s work, having spent her formative years growing up there and gaining a BA Honours in Fine Arts at Wits University. After emigrating to the UK with her family she obtained an MA in Fine Arts at Middlesex University.
She has exhibited widely in both group and solo exhibitions, including the Cadogan Gallery and the Royal Opera House.
Her work is held in Public Collections, including the Rolls Building, Unilever, and the V&A print collection portfolio with the PMC Publications. Awards include the Print prize at Middlesex University, St Cuthbert’s Mill Award for the National Open Print and the Zenith Purchase Prize at the Mall Gallery London. Commissions include Royal Caribbean Cruise line, and many corporate and private commissions.
For more information www.marilynsimler.net
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