Presented by Ovation
Written by Jennifer Selway
Directed by John Plews
From the writer of “Wallis” and “Odette”, a new comedy set in a crumbling block of South
Kensington flats overrun by mice and scheming estate agents.
Throw into the mix a cross-dressing neighbour and an over zealous cleaner to set up a
perfect scenario for a modern day tale of adultery and mistaken identities.
Tuesday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Sundays: 4.00pm
Tickets
Tuesday – Thursday £18 (£16 concessions)
Friday- Sunday £20 (£18 concessions)
£10 PREVIEW on Friday 31st May
£10 Tuesday on 4th June
Peace and Resolution Solo exhibition by Katy Sayers Green
31 May – 13 June 2019
Highgate Gallery is delighted to host Katy Sayers Green’s ‘Peace and Resolution’, an exhibition of large mixed media paintings, alongside small scale relief sculpture. This work focuses on intractable conflict; from the personal to the political, using the conflict in the Middle East as the central focus and inspiration.
The emphasis is to explore through visual means routes to peace and resolution and hope for the future. Whilst focusing on this particular conflict, Katy also hopes that the resonances in the artwork are universal.
This body of work has been produced as a result of a two month sojourn in Israel in 2018: a summer programme at Hebrew University looking at the complexities of the region and possible paths to peace, followed by a ceramic art residency at the inspirational Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Centre in Tel Aviv. Katy is a painter with a strong interest in layers and 3-dimensional form; working with ceramics for the first time opened up wonderful new possibilities.
The visual language came about during the Tel Aviv Art Residency. Seeds and fruit and other natural produce of the region started appearing in her ceramic work. Seeds offer a promise of hope, of renewal, of something shared between the two peoples. This organic source material is very connected to the land and therefore to the identities of all those involved. Katy expresses visually the connection of both peoples to the land in a visceral way. This work could be described as a form of figurative abstraction.
Katy pressed porcelain into the seeds and fruit to create small-scale impressions, often fragile and transparent – like the seeds of hope themselves. On her return to the UK, she started thinking of the converse of this situation, by pressing and laying the seeds and fruit on to the canvas to make a reverse impression.
The narratives of the two peoples are entirely different and by approaching the project from the other side, in a literal sense, she replicates what is happening in this conflict in visual form. Perhaps, at the interface between these two sides is where peace and resolution can be found.
Katy has recently started an Art Instagram @katy_sayers_green where she is documenting her art practice in the run up to this exhibition.
There will be four accompanying events to this exhibition which are open to the public (see below).
The exhibition is supported by StandWithUs UK – https://standwithus.co.uk – an Israel education charity. The art collection is inspired by a love for Israel and a wish to creatively visualise what a just society for all its inhabitants might look like in the future.
Events
- Friday 31 May, 6-8pm – Private View of Exhibition.
- Sunday 2 June, 11.30am. Artist tour of exhibition. (Please gather at 11.20am.) The tour will last approximately one hour and light refreshments will be available. Katy will talk about her time in Israel and how it relates to her work.
- Thursday 6 June, 8pm (doors open 7.30pm). £10 on the door. Highgate Film Society: “Frantz”, 2017. The film explores healing and forgiveness across borders. Writer-director François Ozon thoughtfully probes the aftermath of World War I through memories and relationships of loved ones left behind.
- Tuesday 11 June, 8pm (doors open at 7.30pm). £5 on the door. Lecture: Sana Knaneh, Development Director for UK Friends of the Bereaved Families Forum, is a Palestinian who grew up in the Galilee region of Israel. She will discuss the reconciliation and peace building work of this organisation in the region. Light refreshments will be available.
Presented by Ovation
Written by Jennifer Selway
Directed by John Plews
From the writer of “Wallis” and “Odette”, a new comedy set in a crumbling block of South
Kensington flats overrun by mice and scheming estate agents.
Throw into the mix a cross-dressing neighbour and an over zealous cleaner to set up a
perfect scenario for a modern day tale of adultery and mistaken identities.
Tuesday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Sundays: 4.00pm
Tickets
Tuesday – Thursday £18 (£16 concessions)
Friday- Sunday £20 (£18 concessions)
£10 PREVIEW on Friday 31st May
£10 Tuesday on 4th June
Peace and Resolution Solo exhibition by Katy Sayers Green
31 May – 13 June 2019
Highgate Gallery is delighted to host Katy Sayers Green’s ‘Peace and Resolution’, an exhibition of large mixed media paintings, alongside small scale relief sculpture. This work focuses on intractable conflict; from the personal to the political, using the conflict in the Middle East as the central focus and inspiration.
The emphasis is to explore through visual means routes to peace and resolution and hope for the future. Whilst focusing on this particular conflict, Katy also hopes that the resonances in the artwork are universal.
This body of work has been produced as a result of a two month sojourn in Israel in 2018: a summer programme at Hebrew University looking at the complexities of the region and possible paths to peace, followed by a ceramic art residency at the inspirational Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Centre in Tel Aviv. Katy is a painter with a strong interest in layers and 3-dimensional form; working with ceramics for the first time opened up wonderful new possibilities.
The visual language came about during the Tel Aviv Art Residency. Seeds and fruit and other natural produce of the region started appearing in her ceramic work. Seeds offer a promise of hope, of renewal, of something shared between the two peoples. This organic source material is very connected to the land and therefore to the identities of all those involved. Katy expresses visually the connection of both peoples to the land in a visceral way. This work could be described as a form of figurative abstraction.
Katy pressed porcelain into the seeds and fruit to create small-scale impressions, often fragile and transparent – like the seeds of hope themselves. On her return to the UK, she started thinking of the converse of this situation, by pressing and laying the seeds and fruit on to the canvas to make a reverse impression.
The narratives of the two peoples are entirely different and by approaching the project from the other side, in a literal sense, she replicates what is happening in this conflict in visual form. Perhaps, at the interface between these two sides is where peace and resolution can be found.
Katy has recently started an Art Instagram @katy_sayers_green where she is documenting her art practice in the run up to this exhibition.
There will be four accompanying events to this exhibition which are open to the public (see below).
The exhibition is supported by StandWithUs UK – https://standwithus.co.uk – an Israel education charity. The art collection is inspired by a love for Israel and a wish to creatively visualise what a just society for all its inhabitants might look like in the future.
Events
- Friday 31 May, 6-8pm – Private View of Exhibition.
- Sunday 2 June, 11.30am. Artist tour of exhibition. (Please gather at 11.20am.) The tour will last approximately one hour and light refreshments will be available. Katy will talk about her time in Israel and how it relates to her work.
- Thursday 6 June, 8pm (doors open 7.30pm). £10 on the door. Highgate Film Society: “Frantz”, 2017. The film explores healing and forgiveness across borders. Writer-director François Ozon thoughtfully probes the aftermath of World War I through memories and relationships of loved ones left behind.
- Tuesday 11 June, 8pm (doors open at 7.30pm). £5 on the door. Lecture: Sana Knaneh, Development Director for UK Friends of the Bereaved Families Forum, is a Palestinian who grew up in the Galilee region of Israel. She will discuss the reconciliation and peace building work of this organisation in the region. Light refreshments will be available.
Presented by Ovation
Written by Jennifer Selway
Directed by John Plews
From the writer of “Wallis” and “Odette”, a new comedy set in a crumbling block of South
Kensington flats overrun by mice and scheming estate agents.
Throw into the mix a cross-dressing neighbour and an over zealous cleaner to set up a
perfect scenario for a modern day tale of adultery and mistaken identities.
Tuesday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Sundays: 4.00pm
Tickets
Tuesday – Thursday £18 (£16 concessions)
Friday- Sunday £20 (£18 concessions)
£10 PREVIEW on Friday 31st May
£10 Tuesday on 4th June
Highgate Film Society: “Frantz”, 2017. The film explores healing and forgiveness across borders.
Writer-director François Ozon thoughtfully probes the aftermath of World War I through memories and relationships of loved ones left behind.
Doors open 7.30pm.
£10 on the door.
Part of the season of events linked to the exhibition Katy Sayers Green: Peace and Resolution. May 31 – Jun 13.
Peace and Resolution Solo exhibition by Katy Sayers Green
31 May – 13 June 2019
Highgate Gallery is delighted to host Katy Sayers Green’s ‘Peace and Resolution’, an exhibition of large mixed media paintings, alongside small scale relief sculpture. This work focuses on intractable conflict; from the personal to the political, using the conflict in the Middle East as the central focus and inspiration.
The emphasis is to explore through visual means routes to peace and resolution and hope for the future. Whilst focusing on this particular conflict, Katy also hopes that the resonances in the artwork are universal.
This body of work has been produced as a result of a two month sojourn in Israel in 2018: a summer programme at Hebrew University looking at the complexities of the region and possible paths to peace, followed by a ceramic art residency at the inspirational Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Centre in Tel Aviv. Katy is a painter with a strong interest in layers and 3-dimensional form; working with ceramics for the first time opened up wonderful new possibilities.
The visual language came about during the Tel Aviv Art Residency. Seeds and fruit and other natural produce of the region started appearing in her ceramic work. Seeds offer a promise of hope, of renewal, of something shared between the two peoples. This organic source material is very connected to the land and therefore to the identities of all those involved. Katy expresses visually the connection of both peoples to the land in a visceral way. This work could be described as a form of figurative abstraction.
Katy pressed porcelain into the seeds and fruit to create small-scale impressions, often fragile and transparent – like the seeds of hope themselves. On her return to the UK, she started thinking of the converse of this situation, by pressing and laying the seeds and fruit on to the canvas to make a reverse impression.
The narratives of the two peoples are entirely different and by approaching the project from the other side, in a literal sense, she replicates what is happening in this conflict in visual form. Perhaps, at the interface between these two sides is where peace and resolution can be found.
Katy has recently started an Art Instagram @katy_sayers_green where she is documenting her art practice in the run up to this exhibition.
There will be four accompanying events to this exhibition which are open to the public (see below).
The exhibition is supported by StandWithUs UK – https://standwithus.co.uk – an Israel education charity. The art collection is inspired by a love for Israel and a wish to creatively visualise what a just society for all its inhabitants might look like in the future.
Events
- Friday 31 May, 6-8pm – Private View of Exhibition.
- Sunday 2 June, 11.30am. Artist tour of exhibition. (Please gather at 11.20am.) The tour will last approximately one hour and light refreshments will be available. Katy will talk about her time in Israel and how it relates to her work.
- Thursday 6 June, 8pm (doors open 7.30pm). £10 on the door. Highgate Film Society: “Frantz”, 2017. The film explores healing and forgiveness across borders. Writer-director François Ozon thoughtfully probes the aftermath of World War I through memories and relationships of loved ones left behind.
- Tuesday 11 June, 8pm (doors open at 7.30pm). £5 on the door. Lecture: Sana Knaneh, Development Director for UK Friends of the Bereaved Families Forum, is a Palestinian who grew up in the Galilee region of Israel. She will discuss the reconciliation and peace building work of this organisation in the region. Light refreshments will be available.
Presented by Ovation
Written by Jennifer Selway
Directed by John Plews
From the writer of “Wallis” and “Odette”, a new comedy set in a crumbling block of South
Kensington flats overrun by mice and scheming estate agents.
Throw into the mix a cross-dressing neighbour and an over zealous cleaner to set up a
perfect scenario for a modern day tale of adultery and mistaken identities.
Tuesday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Sundays: 4.00pm
Tickets
Tuesday – Thursday £18 (£16 concessions)
Friday- Sunday £20 (£18 concessions)
£10 PREVIEW on Friday 31st May
£10 Tuesday on 4th June
Peace and Resolution. Solo exhibition by Katy Sayers Green. 31 May – 13 June 2019
Highgate Gallery is delighted to host Katy Sayers Green’s ‘Peace and Resolution’, an exhibition of large mixed media paintings, alongside small scale relief sculpture. This work focuses on intractable conflict; from the personal to the political, using the conflict in the Middle East as the central focus and inspiration.
The emphasis is to explore through visual means routes to peace and resolution and hope for the future. Whilst focusing on this particular conflict, Katy also hopes that the resonances in the artwork are universal.
This body of work has been produced as a result of a two month sojourn in Israel in 2018: a summer programme at Hebrew University looking at the complexities of the region and possible paths to peace, followed by a ceramic art residency at the inspirational Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Centre in Tel Aviv. Katy is a painter with a strong interest in layers and 3-dimensional form; working with ceramics for the first time opened up wonderful new possibilities.
The visual language came about during the Tel Aviv Art Residency. Seeds and fruit and other natural produce of the region started appearing in her ceramic work. Seeds offer a promise of hope, of renewal, of something shared between the two peoples. This organic source material is very connected to the land and therefore to the identities of all those involved. Katy expresses visually the connection of both peoples to the land in a visceral way. This work could be described as a form of figurative abstraction.
Katy pressed porcelain into the seeds and fruit to create small-scale impressions, often fragile and transparent – like the seeds of hope themselves. On her return to the UK, she started thinking of the converse of this situation, by pressing and laying the seeds and fruit on to the canvas to make a reverse impression.
The narratives of the two peoples are entirely different and by approaching the project from the other side, in a literal sense, she replicates what is happening in this conflict in visual form. Perhaps, at the interface between these two sides is where peace and resolution can be found.
Katy has recently started an Art Instagram @katy_sayers_green where she is documenting her art practice in the run up to this exhibition.
There will be four accompanying events to this exhibition which are open to the public (see below).
Image: ‘Seeds I’, 150 x 120cm, mixed media on canvas.
Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays.
The exhibition is supported by StandWithUs UK – https://standwithus.co.uk – an Israel education charity. The art collection is inspired by a love for Israel and a wish to creatively visualise what a just society for all its inhabitants might look like in the future.
Events
- Friday 31 May, 6-8pm – Private View of Exhibition.
- Sunday 2 June, 11.30am. Artist tour of exhibition. (Please gather at 11.20am.) The tour will last approximately one hour and light refreshments will be available. Katy will talk about her time in Israel and how it relates to her work.
- Thursday 6 June, 8pm (doors open 7.30pm). £10 on the door. Highgate Film Society: “Frantz”, 2017. The film explores healing and forgiveness across borders. Writer-director François Ozon thoughtfully probes the aftermath of World War I through memories and relationships of loved ones left behind.
- Tuesday 11 June, 8pm (doors open at 7.30pm). £5 on the door. Lecture: Sana Knaneh, Development Director for UK Friends of the Bereaved Families Forum, is a Palestinian who grew up in the Galilee region of Israel. She will discuss the reconciliation and peace building work of this organisation in the region. Light refreshments will be available.
Presented by Ovation
Written by Jennifer Selway
Directed by John Plews
From the writer of “Wallis” and “Odette”, a new comedy set in a crumbling block of South
Kensington flats overrun by mice and scheming estate agents.
Throw into the mix a cross-dressing neighbour and an over zealous cleaner to set up a
perfect scenario for a modern day tale of adultery and mistaken identities.
Tuesday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Sundays: 4.00pm
Tickets
Tuesday – Thursday £18 (£16 concessions)
Friday- Sunday £20 (£18 concessions)
£10 PREVIEW on Friday 31st May
£10 Tuesday on 4th June
Peace and Resolution. Solo exhibition by Katy Sayers Green. 31 May – 13 June 2019
Highgate Gallery is delighted to host Katy Sayers Green’s ‘Peace and Resolution’, an exhibition of large mixed media paintings, alongside small scale relief sculpture. This work focuses on intractable conflict; from the personal to the political, using the conflict in the Middle East as the central focus and inspiration.
The emphasis is to explore through visual means routes to peace and resolution and hope for the future. Whilst focusing on this particular conflict, Katy also hopes that the resonances in the artwork are universal.
This body of work has been produced as a result of a two month sojourn in Israel in 2018: a summer programme at Hebrew University looking at the complexities of the region and possible paths to peace, followed by a ceramic art residency at the inspirational Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Centre in Tel Aviv. Katy is a painter with a strong interest in layers and 3-dimensional form; working with ceramics for the first time opened up wonderful new possibilities.
The visual language came about during the Tel Aviv Art Residency. Seeds and fruit and other natural produce of the region started appearing in her ceramic work. Seeds offer a promise of hope, of renewal, of something shared between the two peoples. This organic source material is very connected to the land and therefore to the identities of all those involved. Katy expresses visually the connection of both peoples to the land in a visceral way. This work could be described as a form of figurative abstraction.
Katy pressed porcelain into the seeds and fruit to create small-scale impressions, often fragile and transparent – like the seeds of hope themselves. On her return to the UK, she started thinking of the converse of this situation, by pressing and laying the seeds and fruit on to the canvas to make a reverse impression.
The narratives of the two peoples are entirely different and by approaching the project from the other side, in a literal sense, she replicates what is happening in this conflict in visual form. Perhaps, at the interface between these two sides is where peace and resolution can be found.
Katy has recently started an Art Instagram @katy_sayers_green where she is documenting her art practice in the run up to this exhibition.
There will be four accompanying events to this exhibition which are open to the public (see below).
Image: ‘Seeds I’, 150 x 120cm, mixed media on canvas.
Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays.
The exhibition is supported by StandWithUs UK – https://standwithus.co.uk – an Israel education charity. The art collection is inspired by a love for Israel and a wish to creatively visualise what a just society for all its inhabitants might look like in the future.
Events
- Friday 31 May, 6-8pm – Private View of Exhibition.
- Sunday 2 June, 11.30am. Artist tour of exhibition. (Please gather at 11.20am.) The tour will last approximately one hour and light refreshments will be available. Katy will talk about her time in Israel and how it relates to her work.
- Thursday 6 June, 8pm (doors open 7.30pm). £10 on the door. Highgate Film Society: “Frantz”, 2017. The film explores healing and forgiveness across borders. Writer-director François Ozon thoughtfully probes the aftermath of World War I through memories and relationships of loved ones left behind.
- Tuesday 11 June, 8pm (doors open at 7.30pm). £5 on the door. Lecture: Sana Knaneh, Development Director for UK Friends of the Bereaved Families Forum, is a Palestinian who grew up in the Galilee region of Israel. She will discuss the reconciliation and peace building work of this organisation in the region. Light refreshments will be available.
Presented by Ovation
Written by Jennifer Selway
Directed by John Plews
From the writer of “Wallis” and “Odette”, a new comedy set in a crumbling block of South
Kensington flats overrun by mice and scheming estate agents.
Throw into the mix a cross-dressing neighbour and an over zealous cleaner to set up a
perfect scenario for a modern day tale of adultery and mistaken identities.
Tuesday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Sundays: 4.00pm
Tickets
Tuesday – Thursday £18 (£16 concessions)
Friday- Sunday £20 (£18 concessions)
£10 PREVIEW on Friday 31st May
£10 Tuesday on 4th June
Peace and Resolution Solo exhibition by Katy Sayers Green
31 May – 13 June 2019
Highgate Gallery is delighted to host Katy Sayers Green’s ‘Peace and Resolution’, an exhibition of large mixed media paintings, alongside small scale relief sculpture. This work focuses on intractable conflict; from the personal to the political, using the conflict in the Middle East as the central focus and inspiration.
The emphasis is to explore through visual means routes to peace and resolution and hope for the future. Whilst focusing on this particular conflict, Katy also hopes that the resonances in the artwork are universal.
This body of work has been produced as a result of a two month sojourn in Israel in 2018: a summer programme at Hebrew University looking at the complexities of the region and possible paths to peace, followed by a ceramic art residency at the inspirational Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Centre in Tel Aviv. Katy is a painter with a strong interest in layers and 3-dimensional form; working with ceramics for the first time opened up wonderful new possibilities.
The visual language came about during the Tel Aviv Art Residency. Seeds and fruit and other natural produce of the region started appearing in her ceramic work. Seeds offer a promise of hope, of renewal, of something shared between the two peoples. This organic source material is very connected to the land and therefore to the identities of all those involved. Katy expresses visually the connection of both peoples to the land in a visceral way. This work could be described as a form of figurative abstraction.
Katy pressed porcelain into the seeds and fruit to create small-scale impressions, often fragile and transparent – like the seeds of hope themselves. On her return to the UK, she started thinking of the converse of this situation, by pressing and laying the seeds and fruit on to the canvas to make a reverse impression.
The narratives of the two peoples are entirely different and by approaching the project from the other side, in a literal sense, she replicates what is happening in this conflict in visual form. Perhaps, at the interface between these two sides is where peace and resolution can be found.
Katy has recently started an Art Instagram @katy_sayers_green where she is documenting her art practice in the run up to this exhibition.
There will be four accompanying events to this exhibition which are open to the public (see below).
The exhibition is supported by StandWithUs UK – https://standwithus.co.uk – an Israel education charity. The art collection is inspired by a love for Israel and a wish to creatively visualise what a just society for all its inhabitants might look like in the future.
Events
- Friday 31 May, 6-8pm – Private View of Exhibition.
- Sunday 2 June, 11.30am. Artist tour of exhibition. (Please gather at 11.20am.) The tour will last approximately one hour and light refreshments will be available. Katy will talk about her time in Israel and how it relates to her work.
- Thursday 6 June, 8pm (doors open 7.30pm). £10 on the door. Highgate Film Society: “Frantz”, 2017. The film explores healing and forgiveness across borders. Writer-director François Ozon thoughtfully probes the aftermath of World War I through memories and relationships of loved ones left behind.
- Tuesday 11 June, 8pm (doors open at 7.30pm). £5 on the door. Lecture: Sana Knaneh, Development Director for UK Friends of the Bereaved Families Forum, is a Palestinian who grew up in the Galilee region of Israel. She will discuss the reconciliation and peace building work of this organisation in the region. Light refreshments will be available.
Presented by Ovation
Written by Jennifer Selway
Directed by John Plews
From the writer of “Wallis” and “Odette”, a new comedy set in a crumbling block of South
Kensington flats overrun by mice and scheming estate agents.
Throw into the mix a cross-dressing neighbour and an over zealous cleaner to set up a
perfect scenario for a modern day tale of adultery and mistaken identities.
Tuesday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Sundays: 4.00pm
Tickets
Tuesday – Thursday £18 (£16 concessions)
Friday- Sunday £20 (£18 concessions)
£10 PREVIEW on Friday 31st May
£10 Tuesday on 4th June
Sana Knaneh, Development Director for UK Friends of the Bereaved Families Forum, is a Palestinian who grew up in the Galilee region of Israel. She will discuss the reconciliation and peace building work of this organisation in the region. Light refreshments will be available.
Doors open at 7.30pm.
£5 on the door.
One of the events linked to the exhibition Katy Sayers Green: Peace and Resolution. May 31 – Jun 13.
Peace and Resolution Solo exhibition by Katy Sayers Green
31 May – 13 June 2019
Highgate Gallery is delighted to host Katy Sayers Green’s ‘Peace and Resolution’, an exhibition of large mixed media paintings, alongside small scale relief sculpture. This work focuses on intractable conflict; from the personal to the political, using the conflict in the Middle East as the central focus and inspiration.
The emphasis is to explore through visual means routes to peace and resolution and hope for the future. Whilst focusing on this particular conflict, Katy also hopes that the resonances in the artwork are universal.
This body of work has been produced as a result of a two month sojourn in Israel in 2018: a summer programme at Hebrew University looking at the complexities of the region and possible paths to peace, followed by a ceramic art residency at the inspirational Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Centre in Tel Aviv. Katy is a painter with a strong interest in layers and 3-dimensional form; working with ceramics for the first time opened up wonderful new possibilities.
The visual language came about during the Tel Aviv Art Residency. Seeds and fruit and other natural produce of the region started appearing in her ceramic work. Seeds offer a promise of hope, of renewal, of something shared between the two peoples. This organic source material is very connected to the land and therefore to the identities of all those involved. Katy expresses visually the connection of both peoples to the land in a visceral way. This work could be described as a form of figurative abstraction.
Katy pressed porcelain into the seeds and fruit to create small-scale impressions, often fragile and transparent – like the seeds of hope themselves. On her return to the UK, she started thinking of the converse of this situation, by pressing and laying the seeds and fruit on to the canvas to make a reverse impression.
The narratives of the two peoples are entirely different and by approaching the project from the other side, in a literal sense, she replicates what is happening in this conflict in visual form. Perhaps, at the interface between these two sides is where peace and resolution can be found.
Katy has recently started an Art Instagram @katy_sayers_green where she is documenting her art practice in the run up to this exhibition.
There will be four accompanying events to this exhibition which are open to the public (see below).
The exhibition is supported by StandWithUs UK – https://standwithus.co.uk – an Israel education charity. The art collection is inspired by a love for Israel and a wish to creatively visualise what a just society for all its inhabitants might look like in the future.
Events
- Friday 31 May, 6-8pm – Private View of Exhibition.
- Sunday 2 June, 11.30am. Artist tour of exhibition. (Please gather at 11.20am.) The tour will last approximately one hour and light refreshments will be available. Katy will talk about her time in Israel and how it relates to her work.
- Thursday 6 June, 8pm (doors open 7.30pm). £10 on the door. Highgate Film Society: “Frantz”, 2017. The film explores healing and forgiveness across borders. Writer-director François Ozon thoughtfully probes the aftermath of World War I through memories and relationships of loved ones left behind.
- Tuesday 11 June, 8pm (doors open at 7.30pm). £5 on the door. Lecture: Sana Knaneh, Development Director for UK Friends of the Bereaved Families Forum, is a Palestinian who grew up in the Galilee region of Israel. She will discuss the reconciliation and peace building work of this organisation in the region. Light refreshments will be available.
Presented by Ovation
Written by Jennifer Selway
Directed by John Plews
From the writer of “Wallis” and “Odette”, a new comedy set in a crumbling block of South
Kensington flats overrun by mice and scheming estate agents.
Throw into the mix a cross-dressing neighbour and an over zealous cleaner to set up a
perfect scenario for a modern day tale of adultery and mistaken identities.
Tuesday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Sundays: 4.00pm
Tickets
Tuesday – Thursday £18 (£16 concessions)
Friday- Sunday £20 (£18 concessions)
£10 PREVIEW on Friday 31st May
£10 Tuesday on 4th June
Peace and Resolution Solo exhibition by Katy Sayers Green
31 May – 13 June 2019
Highgate Gallery is delighted to host Katy Sayers Green’s ‘Peace and Resolution’, an exhibition of large mixed media paintings, alongside small scale relief sculpture. This work focuses on intractable conflict; from the personal to the political, using the conflict in the Middle East as the central focus and inspiration.
The emphasis is to explore through visual means routes to peace and resolution and hope for the future. Whilst focusing on this particular conflict, Katy also hopes that the resonances in the artwork are universal.
This body of work has been produced as a result of a two month sojourn in Israel in 2018: a summer programme at Hebrew University looking at the complexities of the region and possible paths to peace, followed by a ceramic art residency at the inspirational Benyamini Contemporary Ceramics Centre in Tel Aviv. Katy is a painter with a strong interest in layers and 3-dimensional form; working with ceramics for the first time opened up wonderful new possibilities.
The visual language came about during the Tel Aviv Art Residency. Seeds and fruit and other natural produce of the region started appearing in her ceramic work. Seeds offer a promise of hope, of renewal, of something shared between the two peoples. This organic source material is very connected to the land and therefore to the identities of all those involved. Katy expresses visually the connection of both peoples to the land in a visceral way. This work could be described as a form of figurative abstraction.
Katy pressed porcelain into the seeds and fruit to create small-scale impressions, often fragile and transparent – like the seeds of hope themselves. On her return to the UK, she started thinking of the converse of this situation, by pressing and laying the seeds and fruit on to the canvas to make a reverse impression.
The narratives of the two peoples are entirely different and by approaching the project from the other side, in a literal sense, she replicates what is happening in this conflict in visual form. Perhaps, at the interface between these two sides is where peace and resolution can be found.
Katy has recently started an Art Instagram @katy_sayers_green where she is documenting her art practice in the run up to this exhibition.
There will be four accompanying events to this exhibition which are open to the public (see below).
The exhibition is supported by StandWithUs UK – https://standwithus.co.uk – an Israel education charity. The art collection is inspired by a love for Israel and a wish to creatively visualise what a just society for all its inhabitants might look like in the future.
Events
- Friday 31 May, 6-8pm – Private View of Exhibition.
- Sunday 2 June, 11.30am. Artist tour of exhibition. (Please gather at 11.20am.) The tour will last approximately one hour and light refreshments will be available. Katy will talk about her time in Israel and how it relates to her work.
- Thursday 6 June, 8pm (doors open 7.30pm). £10 on the door. Highgate Film Society: “Frantz”, 2017. The film explores healing and forgiveness across borders. Writer-director François Ozon thoughtfully probes the aftermath of World War I through memories and relationships of loved ones left behind.
- Tuesday 11 June, 8pm (doors open at 7.30pm). £5 on the door. Lecture: Sana Knaneh, Development Director for UK Friends of the Bereaved Families Forum, is a Palestinian who grew up in the Galilee region of Israel. She will discuss the reconciliation and peace building work of this organisation in the region. Light refreshments will be available.
Presented by Ovation
Written by Jennifer Selway
Directed by John Plews
From the writer of “Wallis” and “Odette”, a new comedy set in a crumbling block of South
Kensington flats overrun by mice and scheming estate agents.
Throw into the mix a cross-dressing neighbour and an over zealous cleaner to set up a
perfect scenario for a modern day tale of adultery and mistaken identities.
Tuesday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Sundays: 4.00pm
Tickets
Tuesday – Thursday £18 (£16 concessions)
Friday- Sunday £20 (£18 concessions)
£10 PREVIEW on Friday 31st May
£10 Tuesday on 4th June
Presented by Ovation
Written by Jennifer Selway
Directed by John Plews
From the writer of “Wallis” and “Odette”, a new comedy set in a crumbling block of South
Kensington flats overrun by mice and scheming estate agents.
Throw into the mix a cross-dressing neighbour and an over zealous cleaner to set up a
perfect scenario for a modern day tale of adultery and mistaken identities.
Tuesday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Sundays: 4.00pm
Tickets
Tuesday – Thursday £18 (£16 concessions)
Friday- Sunday £20 (£18 concessions)
£10 PREVIEW on Friday 31st May
£10 Tuesday on 4th June
A great day out for all the family.
The Highgate Festival will kick off with the Fair in the Square and continue with events all week.
Presented by Ovation
Written by Jennifer Selway
Directed by John Plews
From the writer of “Wallis” and “Odette”, a new comedy set in a crumbling block of South
Kensington flats overrun by mice and scheming estate agents.
Throw into the mix a cross-dressing neighbour and an over zealous cleaner to set up a
perfect scenario for a modern day tale of adultery and mistaken identities.
Tuesday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Sundays: 4.00pm
Tickets
Tuesday – Thursday £18 (£16 concessions)
Friday- Sunday £20 (£18 concessions)
£10 PREVIEW on Friday 31st May
£10 Tuesday on 4th June
Presented by Ovation
Written by Jennifer Selway
Directed by John Plews
From the writer of “Wallis” and “Odette”, a new comedy set in a crumbling block of South
Kensington flats overrun by mice and scheming estate agents.
Throw into the mix a cross-dressing neighbour and an over zealous cleaner to set up a
perfect scenario for a modern day tale of adultery and mistaken identities.
Tuesday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Sundays: 4.00pm
Tickets
Tuesday – Thursday £18 (£16 concessions)
Friday- Sunday £20 (£18 concessions)
£10 PREVIEW on Friday 31st May
£10 Tuesday on 4th June
Presented by Ovation
Written by Jennifer Selway
Directed by John Plews
From the writer of “Wallis” and “Odette”, a new comedy set in a crumbling block of South
Kensington flats overrun by mice and scheming estate agents.
Throw into the mix a cross-dressing neighbour and an over zealous cleaner to set up a
perfect scenario for a modern day tale of adultery and mistaken identities.
Tuesday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Sundays: 4.00pm
Tickets
Tuesday – Thursday £18 (£16 concessions)
Friday- Sunday £20 (£18 concessions)
£10 PREVIEW on Friday 31st May
£10 Tuesday on 4th June
Presented by Ovation
Written by Jennifer Selway
Directed by John Plews
From the writer of “Wallis” and “Odette”, a new comedy set in a crumbling block of South
Kensington flats overrun by mice and scheming estate agents.
Throw into the mix a cross-dressing neighbour and an over zealous cleaner to set up a
perfect scenario for a modern day tale of adultery and mistaken identities.
Tuesday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Sundays: 4.00pm
Tickets
Tuesday – Thursday £18 (£16 concessions)
Friday- Sunday £20 (£18 concessions)
£10 PREVIEW on Friday 31st May
£10 Tuesday on 4th June
Presented by Ovation
Written by Jennifer Selway
Directed by John Plews
From the writer of “Wallis” and “Odette”, a new comedy set in a crumbling block of South
Kensington flats overrun by mice and scheming estate agents.
Throw into the mix a cross-dressing neighbour and an over zealous cleaner to set up a
perfect scenario for a modern day tale of adultery and mistaken identities.
Tuesday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Sundays: 4.00pm
Tickets
Tuesday – Thursday £18 (£16 concessions)
Friday- Sunday £20 (£18 concessions)
£10 PREVIEW on Friday 31st May
£10 Tuesday on 4th June
Presented by Ovation
Written by Jennifer Selway
Directed by John Plews
From the writer of “Wallis” and “Odette”, a new comedy set in a crumbling block of South
Kensington flats overrun by mice and scheming estate agents.
Throw into the mix a cross-dressing neighbour and an over zealous cleaner to set up a
perfect scenario for a modern day tale of adultery and mistaken identities.
Tuesday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Sundays: 4.00pm
Tickets
Tuesday – Thursday £18 (£16 concessions)
Friday- Sunday £20 (£18 concessions)
£10 PREVIEW on Friday 31st May
£10 Tuesday on 4th June
Presented by Ovation
Written by Jennifer Selway
Directed by John Plews
From the writer of “Wallis” and “Odette”, a new comedy set in a crumbling block of South
Kensington flats overrun by mice and scheming estate agents.
Throw into the mix a cross-dressing neighbour and an over zealous cleaner to set up a
perfect scenario for a modern day tale of adultery and mistaken identities.
Tuesday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Sundays: 4.00pm
Tickets
Tuesday – Thursday £18 (£16 concessions)
Friday- Sunday £20 (£18 concessions)
£10 PREVIEW on Friday 31st May
£10 Tuesday on 4th June
Presented by Ovation
Written by Jennifer Selway
Directed by John Plews
From the writer of “Wallis” and “Odette”, a new comedy set in a crumbling block of South
Kensington flats overrun by mice and scheming estate agents.
Throw into the mix a cross-dressing neighbour and an over zealous cleaner to set up a
perfect scenario for a modern day tale of adultery and mistaken identities.
Tuesday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Sundays: 4.00pm
Tickets
Tuesday – Thursday £18 (£16 concessions)
Friday- Sunday £20 (£18 concessions)
£10 PREVIEW on Friday 31st May
£10 Tuesday on 4th June
Presented by Ovation
Written by Jennifer Selway
Directed by John Plews
From the writer of “Wallis” and “Odette”, a new comedy set in a crumbling block of South
Kensington flats overrun by mice and scheming estate agents.
Throw into the mix a cross-dressing neighbour and an over zealous cleaner to set up a
perfect scenario for a modern day tale of adultery and mistaken identities.
Tuesday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Sundays: 4.00pm
Tickets
Tuesday – Thursday £18 (£16 concessions)
Friday- Sunday £20 (£18 concessions)
£10 PREVIEW on Friday 31st May
£10 Tuesday on 4th June
Presented by Ovation
Written by Jennifer Selway
Directed by John Plews
From the writer of “Wallis” and “Odette”, a new comedy set in a crumbling block of South
Kensington flats overrun by mice and scheming estate agents.
Throw into the mix a cross-dressing neighbour and an over zealous cleaner to set up a
perfect scenario for a modern day tale of adultery and mistaken identities.
Tuesday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Sundays: 4.00pm
Tickets
Tuesday – Thursday £18 (£16 concessions)
Friday- Sunday £20 (£18 concessions)
£10 PREVIEW on Friday 31st May
£10 Tuesday on 4th June
Presented by Ovation
Written by Jennifer Selway
Directed by John Plews
From the writer of “Wallis” and “Odette”, a new comedy set in a crumbling block of South
Kensington flats overrun by mice and scheming estate agents.
Throw into the mix a cross-dressing neighbour and an over zealous cleaner to set up a
perfect scenario for a modern day tale of adultery and mistaken identities.
Tuesday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Sundays: 4.00pm
Tickets
Tuesday – Thursday £18 (£16 concessions)
Friday- Sunday £20 (£18 concessions)
£10 PREVIEW on Friday 31st May
£10 Tuesday on 4th June
Liz Sutherland
Cityscapes and Landscapes, 28 June – 11 July, is an exhibition of colourful, expressive paintings, dynamic sketches and fluid iPad drawings by north London artist Liz Sutherland. Her latest body of work has been inspired by three strikingly different locations: the dramatic seascapes of Scotland and Sweden, and the intense urban cityscapes of London.
In her Scottish scenes she conjures up the beauty and remoteness of the west coast island of Iona, giving the paintings a sense of the freedom of the landscape through the use of expressive brush strokes and a vibrant palette. The sea is a recurring element in Sutherland’s work and a visit to Sandhammeren beach in southern Sweden has also captured her imagination. Again, it was the particular quality of the colour and light which she found arresting and in these paintings she seeks to capture the sun’s fleeting brilliance as it hit the coast line on a very cold day in December.
Closer to home are the more familiar scenes of Alexander Palace and iconic views of Waterloo Bridge. The contrast of the urban juxtaposed with the natural have remained favourite motifs. It is important for Liz to keep the paintings fresh and alive. She often works on several at the same time, using confident gestural marks. She tries out new techniques such as using a syringe or thick brushes attached to poles to apply her paint. “In this way I have less control and the results continue to surprise and excite me,” she explains.
Liz draws using charcoal and pastels on paper, as well as employing photographs to aid her “re-imagining” when back in her North London studio. But it is her interest in the use of the iPad that has had the most significant impact on her working methods. This is particularly noticeable in her London oil paintings. For Liz, the iPad has become the ‘modern sketchbook’, its particular qualities of line and shape influencing the subsequent transformation into paint. She is attempting to create a kind of shorthand abstract language in paint, which never quite abandons the subject matter. “Usually the ones that come out quickly work the best. The freedom of paint is what I’m trying to produce.” (Ham and High, 2016).
Highgate Gallery is delighted to announce that Liz will be holding a free demonstration on iPad drawing on Sunday 7th July from 2-3pm. Participants should bring their own iPad with the Brushes XP application downloaded if possible. All levels welcome.
Liz comes from family of artists. Her grandparents were renowned Scottish painters D.M. Sutherland (RSA) and Dorothy Johnstone (ARSA). She studied History of Art at UCL and then went on to do a painting postgraduate course at Central St Martin’s. She has had solo shows in London, Oxford and Ely and exhibits regularly in Open Studios with Collage Arts (previously in the Chocolate Factory). She trained to be a teacher in 2009 and regularly teaches art to Primary Schools children and to disabled adults. This is Liz’s second solo show at Highgate Gallery.
Highgate Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays
Presented by Ovation
Written by Jennifer Selway
Directed by John Plews
From the writer of “Wallis” and “Odette”, a new comedy set in a crumbling block of South
Kensington flats overrun by mice and scheming estate agents.
Throw into the mix a cross-dressing neighbour and an over zealous cleaner to set up a
perfect scenario for a modern day tale of adultery and mistaken identities.
Tuesday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Sundays: 4.00pm
Tickets
Tuesday – Thursday £18 (£16 concessions)
Friday- Sunday £20 (£18 concessions)
£10 PREVIEW on Friday 31st May
£10 Tuesday on 4th June
Liz Sutherland
Cityscapes and Landscapes, 28 June – 11 July, is an exhibition of colourful, expressive paintings, dynamic sketches and fluid iPad drawings by north London artist Liz Sutherland. Her latest body of work has been inspired by three strikingly different locations: the dramatic seascapes of Scotland and Sweden, and the intense urban cityscapes of London.
In her Scottish scenes she conjures up the beauty and remoteness of the west coast island of Iona, giving the paintings a sense of the freedom of the landscape through the use of expressive brush strokes and a vibrant palette. The sea is a recurring element in Sutherland’s work and a visit to Sandhammeren beach in southern Sweden has also captured her imagination. Again, it was the particular quality of the colour and light which she found arresting and in these paintings she seeks to capture the sun’s fleeting brilliance as it hit the coast line on a very cold day in December.
Closer to home are the more familiar scenes of Alexander Palace and iconic views of Waterloo Bridge. The contrast of the urban juxtaposed with the natural have remained favourite motifs. It is important for Liz to keep the paintings fresh and alive. She often works on several at the same time, using confident gestural marks. She tries out new techniques such as using a syringe or thick brushes attached to poles to apply her paint. “In this way I have less control and the results continue to surprise and excite me,” she explains.
Liz draws using charcoal and pastels on paper, as well as employing photographs to aid her “re-imagining” when back in her North London studio. But it is her interest in the use of the iPad that has had the most significant impact on her working methods. This is particularly noticeable in her London oil paintings. For Liz, the iPad has become the ‘modern sketchbook’, its particular qualities of line and shape influencing the subsequent transformation into paint. She is attempting to create a kind of shorthand abstract language in paint, which never quite abandons the subject matter. “Usually the ones that come out quickly work the best. The freedom of paint is what I’m trying to produce.” (Ham and High, 2016).
Highgate Gallery is delighted to announce that Liz will be holding a free demonstration on iPad drawing on Sunday 7th July from 2-3pm. Participants should bring their own iPad with the Brushes XP application downloaded if possible. All levels welcome.
Liz comes from family of artists. Her grandparents were renowned Scottish painters D.M. Sutherland (RSA) and Dorothy Johnstone (ARSA). She studied History of Art at UCL and then went on to do a painting postgraduate course at Central St Martin’s. She has had solo shows in London, Oxford and Ely and exhibits regularly in Open Studios with Collage Arts (previously in the Chocolate Factory). She trained to be a teacher in 2009 and regularly teaches art to Primary Schools children and to disabled adults. This is Liz’s second solo show at Highgate Gallery.
Highgate Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays.
Presented by Ovation
Written by Jennifer Selway
Directed by John Plews
From the writer of “Wallis” and “Odette”, a new comedy set in a crumbling block of South
Kensington flats overrun by mice and scheming estate agents.
Throw into the mix a cross-dressing neighbour and an over zealous cleaner to set up a
perfect scenario for a modern day tale of adultery and mistaken identities.
Tuesday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Sundays: 4.00pm
Tickets
Tuesday – Thursday £18 (£16 concessions)
Friday- Sunday £20 (£18 concessions)
£10 PREVIEW on Friday 31st May
£10 Tuesday on 4th June
Liz Sutherland
Cityscapes and Landscapes, 28 June – 11 July, is an exhibition of colourful, expressive paintings, dynamic sketches and fluid iPad drawings by north London artist Liz Sutherland. Her latest body of work has been inspired by three strikingly different locations: the dramatic seascapes of Scotland and Sweden, and the intense urban cityscapes of London.
In her Scottish scenes she conjures up the beauty and remoteness of the west coast island of Iona, giving the paintings a sense of the freedom of the landscape through the use of expressive brush strokes and a vibrant palette. The sea is a recurring element in Sutherland’s work and a visit to Sandhammeren beach in southern Sweden has also captured her imagination. Again, it was the particular quality of the colour and light which she found arresting and in these paintings she seeks to capture the sun’s fleeting brilliance as it hit the coast line on a very cold day in December.
Closer to home are the more familiar scenes of Alexander Palace and iconic views of Waterloo Bridge. The contrast of the urban juxtaposed with the natural have remained favourite motifs. It is important for Liz to keep the paintings fresh and alive. She often works on several at the same time, using confident gestural marks. She tries out new techniques such as using a syringe or thick brushes attached to poles to apply her paint. “In this way I have less control and the results continue to surprise and excite me,” she explains.
Liz draws using charcoal and pastels on paper, as well as employing photographs to aid her “re-imagining” when back in her North London studio. But it is her interest in the use of the iPad that has had the most significant impact on her working methods. This is particularly noticeable in her London oil paintings. For Liz, the iPad has become the ‘modern sketchbook’, its particular qualities of line and shape influencing the subsequent transformation into paint. She is attempting to create a kind of shorthand abstract language in paint, which never quite abandons the subject matter. “Usually the ones that come out quickly work the best. The freedom of paint is what I’m trying to produce.” (Ham and High, 2016).
Highgate Gallery is delighted to announce that Liz will be holding a free demonstration on iPad drawing on Sunday 7th July from 2-3pm. Participants should bring their own iPad with the Brushes XP application downloaded if possible. All levels welcome.
Liz comes from family of artists. Her grandparents were renowned Scottish painters D.M. Sutherland (RSA) and Dorothy Johnstone (ARSA). She studied History of Art at UCL and then went on to do a painting postgraduate course at Central St Martin’s. She has had solo shows in London, Oxford and Ely and exhibits regularly in Open Studios with Collage Arts (previously in the Chocolate Factory). She trained to be a teacher in 2009 and regularly teaches art to Primary Schools children and to disabled adults. This is Liz’s second solo show at Highgate Gallery.
Highgate Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays.
Presented by Ovation
Written by Jennifer Selway
Directed by John Plews
From the writer of “Wallis” and “Odette”, a new comedy set in a crumbling block of South
Kensington flats overrun by mice and scheming estate agents.
Throw into the mix a cross-dressing neighbour and an over zealous cleaner to set up a
perfect scenario for a modern day tale of adultery and mistaken identities.
Tuesday – Saturday: 7.30pm
Sundays: 4.00pm
Tickets
Tuesday – Thursday £18 (£16 concessions)
Friday- Sunday £20 (£18 concessions)
£10 PREVIEW on Friday 31st May
£10 Tuesday on 4th June
Liz Sutherland
Cityscapes and Landscapes, 28 June – 11 July, is an exhibition of colourful, expressive paintings, dynamic sketches and fluid iPad drawings by north London artist Liz Sutherland. Her latest body of work has been inspired by three strikingly different locations: the dramatic seascapes of Scotland and Sweden, and the intense urban cityscapes of London.
In her Scottish scenes she conjures up the beauty and remoteness of the west coast island of Iona, giving the paintings a sense of the freedom of the landscape through the use of expressive brush strokes and a vibrant palette. The sea is a recurring element in Sutherland’s work and a visit to Sandhammeren beach in southern Sweden has also captured her imagination. Again, it was the particular quality of the colour and light which she found arresting and in these paintings she seeks to capture the sun’s fleeting brilliance as it hit the coast line on a very cold day in December.
Closer to home are the more familiar scenes of Alexander Palace and iconic views of Waterloo Bridge. The contrast of the urban juxtaposed with the natural have remained favourite motifs. It is important for Liz to keep the paintings fresh and alive. She often works on several at the same time, using confident gestural marks. She tries out new techniques such as using a syringe or thick brushes attached to poles to apply her paint. “In this way I have less control and the results continue to surprise and excite me,” she explains.
Liz draws using charcoal and pastels on paper, as well as employing photographs to aid her “re-imagining” when back in her North London studio. But it is her interest in the use of the iPad that has had the most significant impact on her working methods. This is particularly noticeable in her London oil paintings. For Liz, the iPad has become the ‘modern sketchbook’, its particular qualities of line and shape influencing the subsequent transformation into paint. She is attempting to create a kind of shorthand abstract language in paint, which never quite abandons the subject matter. “Usually the ones that come out quickly work the best. The freedom of paint is what I’m trying to produce.” (Ham and High, 2016).
Highgate Gallery is delighted to announce that Liz will be holding a free demonstration on iPad drawing on Sunday 7th July from 2-3pm. Participants should bring their own iPad with the Brushes XP application downloaded if possible. All levels welcome.
Liz comes from family of artists. Her grandparents were renowned Scottish painters D.M. Sutherland (RSA) and Dorothy Johnstone (ARSA). She studied History of Art at UCL and then went on to do a painting postgraduate course at Central St Martin’s. She has had solo shows in London, Oxford and Ely and exhibits regularly in Open Studios with Collage Arts (previously in the Chocolate Factory). She trained to be a teacher in 2009 and regularly teaches art to Primary Schools children and to disabled adults. This is Liz’s second solo show at Highgate Gallery.
Highgate Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays
Liz Sutherland
Cityscapes and Landscapes, 28 June – 11 July, is an exhibition of colourful, expressive paintings, dynamic sketches and fluid iPad drawings by north London artist Liz Sutherland. Her latest body of work has been inspired by three strikingly different locations: the dramatic seascapes of Scotland and Sweden, and the intense urban cityscapes of London.
In her Scottish scenes she conjures up the beauty and remoteness of the west coast island of Iona, giving the paintings a sense of the freedom of the landscape through the use of expressive brush strokes and a vibrant palette. The sea is a recurring element in Sutherland’s work and a visit to Sandhammeren beach in southern Sweden has also captured her imagination. Again, it was the particular quality of the colour and light which she found arresting and in these paintings she seeks to capture the sun’s fleeting brilliance as it hit the coast line on a very cold day in December.
Closer to home are the more familiar scenes of Alexander Palace and iconic views of Waterloo Bridge. The contrast of the urban juxtaposed with the natural have remained favourite motifs. It is important for Liz to keep the paintings fresh and alive. She often works on several at the same time, using confident gestural marks. She tries out new techniques such as using a syringe or thick brushes attached to poles to apply her paint. “In this way I have less control and the results continue to surprise and excite me,” she explains.
Liz draws using charcoal and pastels on paper, as well as employing photographs to aid her “re-imagining” when back in her North London studio. But it is her interest in the use of the iPad that has had the most significant impact on her working methods. This is particularly noticeable in her London oil paintings. For Liz, the iPad has become the ‘modern sketchbook’, its particular qualities of line and shape influencing the subsequent transformation into paint. She is attempting to create a kind of shorthand abstract language in paint, which never quite abandons the subject matter. “Usually the ones that come out quickly work the best. The freedom of paint is what I’m trying to produce.” (Ham and High, 2016).
Highgate Gallery is delighted to announce that Liz will be holding a free demonstration on iPad drawing on Sunday 7th July from 2-3pm. Participants should bring their own iPad with the Brushes XP application downloaded if possible. All levels welcome.
Liz comes from family of artists. Her grandparents were renowned Scottish painters D.M. Sutherland (RSA) and Dorothy Johnstone (ARSA). She studied History of Art at UCL and then went on to do a painting postgraduate course at Central St Martin’s. She has had solo shows in London, Oxford and Ely and exhibits regularly in Open Studios with Collage Arts (previously in the Chocolate Factory). She trained to be a teacher in 2009 and regularly teaches art to Primary Schools children and to disabled adults. This is Liz’s second solo show at Highgate Gallery.
Highgate Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays