These three artists, friends since art college, share a common interest in figurative and landscape themes, their work reflecting a love of both traditional painting and its modern counterpart.
The inspiration for Ken Gallagher’s work is his family in Ireland and the moody Donegal landscape. Figures working the land or sitting at a table are familiar subjects in his drawings and heavily worked etchings. His London work is motivated by the landscape and aspects of day to day life in the city.
John Mortimer’s work is mainly concerned with the urban and rural landscape and the human figure. All his works begin with drawing directly from the subject and later he develops his ideas in his studio where the challenge is to make pictorial sense from what is essentially visual chaos. In recent years, John has worked on a series of self-portrait images, painting directly from life, a subject he first approached in his late fifties.
Anthony Taylor is strongly influenced by expressionist painting, but he has always sought an individual approach, believing that experience and observation are the bedrocks of meaningful work. He is a keen lover of the outdoors, in particular the high moorland tracts and rugged landscapes found in the North West of England. His recent landscape work, featuring old and decrepit dry-stone walls, makes a striking contrast to the paintings of the dry-stone walls – the paret seca – of Minorca, which he recorded whilst there on holiday.
About the artists: Ken Gallagher studied at Horsey College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, London. He lives in East London, dividing his time between Ireland and England. John Mortimer studied at Accrington College, Liverpool Polytechnic Faculty of Art and Design and the Royal Academy Schools. He is based in East London. Anthony Taylor is a northern based artist who trained at Accrington College and Liverpool College of Art. He has exhibited widely throughout the North West of England having held solo shows in Liverpool, Bury, Manchester, Leeds and many other venues. His work is in both private and public collections.
For further information about any of the artists please contact Anthony Taylor anthony_taylor22@hotmail.com
Exhibition continues until 7 April.
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.
These three artists, friends since art college, share a common interest in figurative and landscape themes, their work reflecting a love of both traditional painting and its modern counterpart.
The inspiration for Ken Gallagher’s work is his family in Ireland and the moody Donegal landscape. Figures working the land or sitting at a table are familiar subjects in his drawings and heavily worked etchings. His London work is motivated by the landscape and aspects of day to day life in the city.
John Mortimer’s work is mainly concerned with the urban and rural landscape and the human figure. All his works begin with drawing directly from the subject and later he develops his ideas in his studio where the challenge is to make pictorial sense from what is essentially visual chaos. In recent years, John has worked on a series of self-portrait images, painting directly from life, a subject he first approached in his late fifties.
Anthony Taylor is strongly influenced by expressionist painting, but he has always sought an individual approach, believing that experience and observation are the bedrocks of meaningful work. He is a keen lover of the outdoors, in particular the high moorland tracts and rugged landscapes found in the North West of England. His recent landscape work, featuring old and decrepit dry-stone walls, makes a striking contrast to the paintings of the dry-stone walls – the paret seca – of Minorca, which he recorded whilst there on holiday.
About the artists: Ken Gallagher studied at Horsey College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, London. He lives in East London, dividing his time between Ireland and England. John Mortimer studied at Accrington College, Liverpool Polytechnic Faculty of Art and Design and the Royal Academy Schools. He is based in East London. Anthony Taylor is a northern based artist who trained at Accrington College and Liverpool College of Art. He has exhibited widely throughout the North West of England having held solo shows in Liverpool, Bury, Manchester, Leeds and many other venues. His work is in both private and public collections.
For further information about any of the artists please contact Anthony Taylor anthony_taylor22@hotmail.com
Exhibition continues until 7 April.
Anthony Taylor, Girl In A Mondrian Dress
These three artists, friends since art college, share a common interest in figurative and landscape themes, their work reflecting a love of both traditional painting and its modern counterpart.
The inspiration for Ken Gallagher’s work is his family in Ireland and the moody Donegal landscape. Figures working the land or sitting at a table are familiar subjects in his drawings and heavily worked etchings. His London work is motivated by the landscape and aspects of day to day life in the city.
John Mortimer’s work is mainly concerned with the urban and rural landscape and the human figure. All his works begin with drawing directly from the subject and later he develops his ideas in his studio where the challenge is to make pictorial sense from what is essentially visual chaos. In recent years, John has worked on a series of self-portrait images, painting directly from life, a subject he first approached in his late fifties.
Anthony Taylor is strongly influenced by expressionist painting, but he has always sought an individual approach, believing that experience and observation are the bedrocks of meaningful work. He is a keen lover of the outdoors, in particular the high moorland tracts and rugged landscapes found in the North West of England. His recent landscape work, featuring old and decrepit dry-stone walls, makes a striking contrast to the paintings of the dry-stone walls – the paret seca – of Minorca, which he recorded whilst there on holiday.
About the artists: Ken Gallagher studied at Horsey College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, London. He lives in East London, dividing his time between Ireland and England. John Mortimer studied at Accrington College, Liverpool Polytechnic Faculty of Art and Design and the Royal Academy Schools. He is based in East London. Anthony Taylor is a northern based artist who trained at Accrington College and Liverpool College of Art. He has exhibited widely throughout the North West of England having held solo shows in Liverpool, Bury, Manchester, Leeds and many other venues. His work is in both private and public collections.
For further information about any of the artists please contact Anthony Taylor anthony_taylor22@hotmail.com
Exhibition continues until 7 April.
The class is suitable for beginners and is friendly and inclusive. Style is Hatha yoga with various influences – gentle, but still delivering strength and flexibility. Come and try a class to enhance your sense of wellbeing, release stress and tension and to experience deep relaxation. Mats provided, free parking (for now, but check signs!) no need to book – just turn up. The class is in the beautiful church – it’s set back a bit and has big blue doors. The class is mixed level/mixed ability/mixed age. I am a registered BWY teacher and fully insured. For more info about me/my yoga, have a look at my website
These three artists, friends since art college, share a common interest in figurative and landscape themes, their work reflecting a love of both traditional painting and its modern counterpart.
The inspiration for Ken Gallagher’s work is his family in Ireland and the moody Donegal landscape. Figures working the land or sitting at a table are familiar subjects in his drawings and heavily worked etchings. His London work is motivated by the landscape and aspects of day to day life in the city.
John Mortimer’s work is mainly concerned with the urban and rural landscape and the human figure. All his works begin with drawing directly from the subject and later he develops his ideas in his studio where the challenge is to make pictorial sense from what is essentially visual chaos. In recent years, John has worked on a series of self-portrait images, painting directly from life, a subject he first approached in his late fifties.
Anthony Taylor is strongly influenced by expressionist painting, but he has always sought an individual approach, believing that experience and observation are the bedrocks of meaningful work. He is a keen lover of the outdoors, in particular the high moorland tracts and rugged landscapes found in the North West of England. His recent landscape work, featuring old and decrepit dry-stone walls, makes a striking contrast to the paintings of the dry-stone walls – the paret seca – of Minorca, which he recorded whilst there on holiday.
About the artists: Ken Gallagher studied at Horsey College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, London. He lives in East London, dividing his time between Ireland and England. John Mortimer studied at Accrington College, Liverpool Polytechnic Faculty of Art and Design and the Royal Academy Schools. He is based in East London. Anthony Taylor is a northern based artist who trained at Accrington College and Liverpool College of Art. He has exhibited widely throughout the North West of England having held solo shows in Liverpool, Bury, Manchester, Leeds and many other venues. His work is in both private and public collections.
For further information about any of the artists please contact Anthony Taylor anthony_taylor22@hotmail.com
Exhibition continues until 7 April.
These three artists, friends since art college, share a common interest in figurative and landscape themes, their work reflecting a love of both traditional painting and its modern counterpart.
The inspiration for Ken Gallagher’s work is his family in Ireland and the moody Donegal landscape. Figures working the land or sitting at a table are familiar subjects in his drawings and heavily worked etchings. His London work is motivated by the landscape and aspects of day to day life in the city.
John Mortimer’s work is mainly concerned with the urban and rural landscape and the human figure. All his works begin with drawing directly from the subject and later he develops his ideas in his studio where the challenge is to make pictorial sense from what is essentially visual chaos. In recent years, John has worked on a series of self-portrait images, painting directly from life, a subject he first approached in his late fifties.
Anthony Taylor is strongly influenced by expressionist painting, but he has always sought an individual approach, believing that experience and observation are the bedrocks of meaningful work. He is a keen lover of the outdoors, in particular the high moorland tracts and rugged landscapes found in the North West of England. His recent landscape work, featuring old and decrepit dry-stone walls, makes a striking contrast to the paintings of the dry-stone walls – the paret seca – of Minorca, which he recorded whilst there on holiday.
About the artists: Ken Gallagher studied at Horsey College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, London. He lives in East London, dividing his time between Ireland and England. John Mortimer studied at Accrington College, Liverpool Polytechnic Faculty of Art and Design and the Royal Academy Schools. He is based in East London. Anthony Taylor is a northern based artist who trained at Accrington College and Liverpool College of Art. He has exhibited widely throughout the North West of England having held solo shows in Liverpool, Bury, Manchester, Leeds and many other venues. His work is in both private and public collections.
For further information about any of the artists please contact Anthony Taylor anthony_taylor22@hotmail.com
Exhibition continues until 7 April.
Join us in conversation with artist Grace Ndiritu and LUX Director Benjamin Cook at 7PM to mark the opening of Grace Ndiritu – An Absolute River. The exhibition will be on view from 5 to 8PM.
Book here: https://opening-grace-ndiritu.eventbrite.co.uk
Grace Ndiritu – An Absolute River explores time with new frames of reference, and questions the relevance of previously accepted divisions between past, present and future. Grace Ndiritu (b.1982) is a British-Kenyan artist and activist, whose practice is concerned with alternative ways of living and seeing our contemporary world through spirituality and explorations of “deep time”.
Inspired by Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine writer, fictionalised in Ndiritu’s latest film Black Beauty (2021), the exhibition title reflects on his theories on the fluidity of time. This film will be screened along with Ndiritu’s earlier film A Week in the News: 7 places we think we know, 7 news stories we think we understand (2010).
The accompanying public programme will be led by artists Rieko Whitfield, Serena Huang and Dr Jason Allen-Paisant. All three will invite audiences to imagine alternative timescapes through workshops, performance and text. Each artist investigates the subjectivities of time using multiple approaches: linear/non-linear, western/non-western and human/non-human time.
Grace Ndiritu – An Absolute River runs from 11 May to 16 July 2022 at LUX.
Grace Ndiritu – An Absolute River is curated by students from the MA Curating Contemporary Art Programme as part of the Graduate Projects 2022, Royal College of Art, in partnership with LUX.
Annual General Meeting
The Annual General Meeting of the Highgate Society will take place on Wednesday 11th May at 7.00 pm at the Jackson’s Lane Arts Centre. The guest speaker will be the author and journalist Hunter Davies.
For details:
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These three artists, friends since art college, share a common interest in figurative and landscape themes, their work reflecting a love of both traditional painting and its modern counterpart.
The inspiration for Ken Gallagher’s work is his family in Ireland and the moody Donegal landscape. Figures working the land or sitting at a table are familiar subjects in his drawings and heavily worked etchings. His London work is motivated by the landscape and aspects of day to day life in the city.
John Mortimer’s work is mainly concerned with the urban and rural landscape and the human figure. All his works begin with drawing directly from the subject and later he develops his ideas in his studio where the challenge is to make pictorial sense from what is essentially visual chaos. In recent years, John has worked on a series of self-portrait images, painting directly from life, a subject he first approached in his late fifties.
Anthony Taylor is strongly influenced by expressionist painting, but he has always sought an individual approach, believing that experience and observation are the bedrocks of meaningful work. He is a keen lover of the outdoors, in particular the high moorland tracts and rugged landscapes found in the North West of England. His recent landscape work, featuring old and decrepit dry-stone walls, makes a striking contrast to the paintings of the dry-stone walls – the paret seca – of Minorca, which he recorded whilst there on holiday.
About the artists: Ken Gallagher studied at Horsey College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, London. He lives in East London, dividing his time between Ireland and England. John Mortimer studied at Accrington College, Liverpool Polytechnic Faculty of Art and Design and the Royal Academy Schools. He is based in East London. Anthony Taylor is a northern based artist who trained at Accrington College and Liverpool College of Art. He has exhibited widely throughout the North West of England having held solo shows in Liverpool, Bury, Manchester, Leeds and many other venues. His work is in both private and public collections.
For further information about any of the artists please contact Anthony Taylor anthony_taylor22@hotmail.com
Exhibition continues until 7 April.
Virtuoso banjo player and fiddler Aaron Jonah Lewis has been elbow-deep in traditional American music since their first lessons at the age of five with Kentucky native Robert Oppelt. Their concerts take audiences on a journey through the back roads of American old time and folk music, with detours through ragtime and early jazz.
“I’ve heard quite a lot of old-time fiddle and banjo playing, trust me, but I’ve never heard it like this… played at break-neck speeds, Aaron’s fiddle whipping around tight corners like a high-end sports car… It’s like watching Bach hopped up on speed, composing kickass barn dance tunes in Appalachia… [Aaron is] a player you need to watch.” -No Depression
Greg Adams, Archivist at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, says, “Lewis is one of the few performing musicians with the facility to build compelling musical bridges between the printed banjo music and techniques of the 19th century and the instrument’s journey into recorded sound by the turn of the 20th century.”
Nikki Yeoh is a creative free spirit who, although deeply rooted in the language of improvisation, is open to a range of music that leans as much to populism as it does high art.
Since her emergence on the British jazz scene in the mid-90s, pianist Nikki Yeoh has proved to be an improviser, composer and all-round adventurer who has continually sought to broaden her musical horizons.
Accomplished soloist as she is, Nikki has also excelled as a composer; this is borne out by the number of very significant commissions. Among the most notable recent works is her Suite Of Seven Tunes based on the seven deadly sins, for the internationally renowned reeds virtuoso, John Sunman. River Spirit, which was written for The Oxford New College Boys Choir following a commission from Oxford Contemporary Music.
Yeoh’s output to date reflects an irrepressible spirit of curiosity that has taken her into areas far and wide, be it gigs with cutting edge jazz musicians such as Steve Williamson and Courtney Pine, soul stars like Jean Carne and Roy Ayers, or the fiercely original hip-hop group The Roots. Regardless of the setting Yeoh always shows the same degree of dynamism and responsiveness, qualities that she has developed through both her personal research of the history of music and extensive travels in Latin America, India, the Far East and Europe.
These three artists, friends since art college, share a common interest in figurative and landscape themes, their work reflecting a love of both traditional painting and its modern counterpart.
The inspiration for Ken Gallagher’s work is his family in Ireland and the moody Donegal landscape. Figures working the land or sitting at a table are familiar subjects in his drawings and heavily worked etchings. His London work is motivated by the landscape and aspects of day to day life in the city.
John Mortimer’s work is mainly concerned with the urban and rural landscape and the human figure. All his works begin with drawing directly from the subject and later he develops his ideas in his studio where the challenge is to make pictorial sense from what is essentially visual chaos. In recent years, John has worked on a series of self-portrait images, painting directly from life, a subject he first approached in his late fifties.
Anthony Taylor is strongly influenced by expressionist painting, but he has always sought an individual approach, believing that experience and observation are the bedrocks of meaningful work. He is a keen lover of the outdoors, in particular the high moorland tracts and rugged landscapes found in the North West of England. His recent landscape work, featuring old and decrepit dry-stone walls, makes a striking contrast to the paintings of the dry-stone walls – the paret seca – of Minorca, which he recorded whilst there on holiday.
About the artists: Ken Gallagher studied at Horsey College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, London. He lives in East London, dividing his time between Ireland and England. John Mortimer studied at Accrington College, Liverpool Polytechnic Faculty of Art and Design and the Royal Academy Schools. He is based in East London. Anthony Taylor is a northern based artist who trained at Accrington College and Liverpool College of Art. He has exhibited widely throughout the North West of England having held solo shows in Liverpool, Bury, Manchester, Leeds and many other venues. His work is in both private and public collections.
For further information about any of the artists please contact Anthony Taylor anthony_taylor22@hotmail.com
Exhibition continues until 7 April.
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.
These three artists, friends since art college, share a common interest in figurative and landscape themes, their work reflecting a love of both traditional painting and its modern counterpart.
The inspiration for Ken Gallagher’s work is his family in Ireland and the moody Donegal landscape. Figures working the land or sitting at a table are familiar subjects in his drawings and heavily worked etchings. His London work is motivated by the landscape and aspects of day to day life in the city.
John Mortimer’s work is mainly concerned with the urban and rural landscape and the human figure. All his works begin with drawing directly from the subject and later he develops his ideas in his studio where the challenge is to make pictorial sense from what is essentially visual chaos. In recent years, John has worked on a series of self-portrait images, painting directly from life, a subject he first approached in his late fifties.
Anthony Taylor is strongly influenced by expressionist painting, but he has always sought an individual approach, believing that experience and observation are the bedrocks of meaningful work. He is a keen lover of the outdoors, in particular the high moorland tracts and rugged landscapes found in the North West of England. His recent landscape work, featuring old and decrepit dry-stone walls, makes a striking contrast to the paintings of the dry-stone walls – the paret seca – of Minorca, which he recorded whilst there on holiday.
About the artists: Ken Gallagher studied at Horsey College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, London. He lives in East London, dividing his time between Ireland and England. John Mortimer studied at Accrington College, Liverpool Polytechnic Faculty of Art and Design and the Royal Academy Schools. He is based in East London. Anthony Taylor is a northern based artist who trained at Accrington College and Liverpool College of Art. He has exhibited widely throughout the North West of England having held solo shows in Liverpool, Bury, Manchester, Leeds and many other venues. His work is in both private and public collections.
For further information about any of the artists please contact Anthony Taylor anthony_taylor22@hotmail.com
Exhibition continues until 7 April.
Anthony Taylor, Girl In A Mondrian Dress
These three artists, friends since art college, share a common interest in figurative and landscape themes, their work reflecting a love of both traditional painting and its modern counterpart.
The inspiration for Ken Gallagher’s work is his family in Ireland and the moody Donegal landscape. Figures working the land or sitting at a table are familiar subjects in his drawings and heavily worked etchings. His London work is motivated by the landscape and aspects of day to day life in the city.
John Mortimer’s work is mainly concerned with the urban and rural landscape and the human figure. All his works begin with drawing directly from the subject and later he develops his ideas in his studio where the challenge is to make pictorial sense from what is essentially visual chaos. In recent years, John has worked on a series of self-portrait images, painting directly from life, a subject he first approached in his late fifties.
Anthony Taylor is strongly influenced by expressionist painting, but he has always sought an individual approach, believing that experience and observation are the bedrocks of meaningful work. He is a keen lover of the outdoors, in particular the high moorland tracts and rugged landscapes found in the North West of England. His recent landscape work, featuring old and decrepit dry-stone walls, makes a striking contrast to the paintings of the dry-stone walls – the paret seca – of Minorca, which he recorded whilst there on holiday.
About the artists: Ken Gallagher studied at Horsey College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, London. He lives in East London, dividing his time between Ireland and England. John Mortimer studied at Accrington College, Liverpool Polytechnic Faculty of Art and Design and the Royal Academy Schools. He is based in East London. Anthony Taylor is a northern based artist who trained at Accrington College and Liverpool College of Art. He has exhibited widely throughout the North West of England having held solo shows in Liverpool, Bury, Manchester, Leeds and many other venues. His work is in both private and public collections.
For further information about any of the artists please contact Anthony Taylor anthony_taylor22@hotmail.com
Exhibition continues until 7 April.
The class is suitable for beginners and is friendly and inclusive. Style is Hatha yoga with various influences – gentle, but still delivering strength and flexibility. Come and try a class to enhance your sense of wellbeing, release stress and tension and to experience deep relaxation. Mats provided, free parking (for now, but check signs!) no need to book – just turn up. The class is in the beautiful church – it’s set back a bit and has big blue doors. The class is mixed level/mixed ability/mixed age. I am a registered BWY teacher and fully insured. For more info about me/my yoga, have a look at my website
These three artists, friends since art college, share a common interest in figurative and landscape themes, their work reflecting a love of both traditional painting and its modern counterpart.
The inspiration for Ken Gallagher’s work is his family in Ireland and the moody Donegal landscape. Figures working the land or sitting at a table are familiar subjects in his drawings and heavily worked etchings. His London work is motivated by the landscape and aspects of day to day life in the city.
John Mortimer’s work is mainly concerned with the urban and rural landscape and the human figure. All his works begin with drawing directly from the subject and later he develops his ideas in his studio where the challenge is to make pictorial sense from what is essentially visual chaos. In recent years, John has worked on a series of self-portrait images, painting directly from life, a subject he first approached in his late fifties.
Anthony Taylor is strongly influenced by expressionist painting, but he has always sought an individual approach, believing that experience and observation are the bedrocks of meaningful work. He is a keen lover of the outdoors, in particular the high moorland tracts and rugged landscapes found in the North West of England. His recent landscape work, featuring old and decrepit dry-stone walls, makes a striking contrast to the paintings of the dry-stone walls – the paret seca – of Minorca, which he recorded whilst there on holiday.
About the artists: Ken Gallagher studied at Horsey College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, London. He lives in East London, dividing his time between Ireland and England. John Mortimer studied at Accrington College, Liverpool Polytechnic Faculty of Art and Design and the Royal Academy Schools. He is based in East London. Anthony Taylor is a northern based artist who trained at Accrington College and Liverpool College of Art. He has exhibited widely throughout the North West of England having held solo shows in Liverpool, Bury, Manchester, Leeds and many other venues. His work is in both private and public collections.
For further information about any of the artists please contact Anthony Taylor anthony_taylor22@hotmail.com
Exhibition continues until 7 April.
Take a break on a Tuesday lunchtime and enjoy 45 minutes of gorgeous classical music performed live by our resident musicians upstairs in the beautiful Long Gallery overlooking Waterlow Park.
Stephen Hose trained at the Royal Academy of Music where he held a Vaughan Williams scholarship. He has specialised in chamber music and has worked extensively as a Musical Director, conductor and pianist in London and regional theatre, in addition to appearances in France, Sweden, Ireland, and Germany.
The Merry Mug Quiz returns
Tuesday 17th May 7.40 for 8.00 pm.
HLSI 11 South Grove N6 6BS
Entrance free. Booking not necessary.
After a gap of two years due to the pandemic, the annual battle of wits between the Highgate Society and HLSI returns, compered by John Plews. For a full description see the Spring 2022 issue of Buzz.
These three artists, friends since art college, share a common interest in figurative and landscape themes, their work reflecting a love of both traditional painting and its modern counterpart.
The inspiration for Ken Gallagher’s work is his family in Ireland and the moody Donegal landscape. Figures working the land or sitting at a table are familiar subjects in his drawings and heavily worked etchings. His London work is motivated by the landscape and aspects of day to day life in the city.
John Mortimer’s work is mainly concerned with the urban and rural landscape and the human figure. All his works begin with drawing directly from the subject and later he develops his ideas in his studio where the challenge is to make pictorial sense from what is essentially visual chaos. In recent years, John has worked on a series of self-portrait images, painting directly from life, a subject he first approached in his late fifties.
Anthony Taylor is strongly influenced by expressionist painting, but he has always sought an individual approach, believing that experience and observation are the bedrocks of meaningful work. He is a keen lover of the outdoors, in particular the high moorland tracts and rugged landscapes found in the North West of England. His recent landscape work, featuring old and decrepit dry-stone walls, makes a striking contrast to the paintings of the dry-stone walls – the paret seca – of Minorca, which he recorded whilst there on holiday.
About the artists: Ken Gallagher studied at Horsey College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, London. He lives in East London, dividing his time between Ireland and England. John Mortimer studied at Accrington College, Liverpool Polytechnic Faculty of Art and Design and the Royal Academy Schools. He is based in East London. Anthony Taylor is a northern based artist who trained at Accrington College and Liverpool College of Art. He has exhibited widely throughout the North West of England having held solo shows in Liverpool, Bury, Manchester, Leeds and many other venues. His work is in both private and public collections.
For further information about any of the artists please contact Anthony Taylor anthony_taylor22@hotmail.com
Exhibition continues until 7 April.
These three artists, friends since art college, share a common interest in figurative and landscape themes, their work reflecting a love of both traditional painting and its modern counterpart.
The inspiration for Ken Gallagher’s work is his family in Ireland and the moody Donegal landscape. Figures working the land or sitting at a table are familiar subjects in his drawings and heavily worked etchings. His London work is motivated by the landscape and aspects of day to day life in the city.
John Mortimer’s work is mainly concerned with the urban and rural landscape and the human figure. All his works begin with drawing directly from the subject and later he develops his ideas in his studio where the challenge is to make pictorial sense from what is essentially visual chaos. In recent years, John has worked on a series of self-portrait images, painting directly from life, a subject he first approached in his late fifties.
Anthony Taylor is strongly influenced by expressionist painting, but he has always sought an individual approach, believing that experience and observation are the bedrocks of meaningful work. He is a keen lover of the outdoors, in particular the high moorland tracts and rugged landscapes found in the North West of England. His recent landscape work, featuring old and decrepit dry-stone walls, makes a striking contrast to the paintings of the dry-stone walls – the paret seca – of Minorca, which he recorded whilst there on holiday.
About the artists: Ken Gallagher studied at Horsey College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools, London. He lives in East London, dividing his time between Ireland and England. John Mortimer studied at Accrington College, Liverpool Polytechnic Faculty of Art and Design and the Royal Academy Schools. He is based in East London. Anthony Taylor is a northern based artist who trained at Accrington College and Liverpool College of Art. He has exhibited widely throughout the North West of England having held solo shows in Liverpool, Bury, Manchester, Leeds and many other venues. His work is in both private and public collections.
For further information about any of the artists please contact Anthony Taylor anthony_taylor22@hotmail.com
Exhibition continues until 7 April.
Jacquelyn Hynes is a highly regarded flautist and composer, rooted in Irish and English traditional music who has played alongside and supported many of Irelands leading artists including Martin Hayes, Michael McGoldrick, Mary Coughlan and Lunasa. Her debut CD “Silver and Wood” received 4 star reviews from the Telegraph and RnR magazine, and was Album of the Week on BBC Radio nan Gaídheal.
“Haunting and wonderful” Telegraph (Folk Albums of the Year)
“Brings Hynes’ innate sense of innovation to the table –
ethereal and other-worldly yet also attractively contemporary” Irish World
A musician, teacher and promoter, it would be no exaggeration to say that Karen Ryan lives and breathes traditional Irish music. Born in London to Galway and Mayo parents, it was a strong Connemara tradition of melodeon players and traditional singers on her mother’s side that initially fired her love of the music.
Karen started playing music at the age of nine, taught by the North Leitrim musician Tommy Maguire at the London Irish Centre, where she herself now teaches. It was here that she met lifelong friends and fellow fiddle players, Elaine Conwell and Teresa Connolly (Ní Heanue), with whom she won the under 12 Trio competition at the All-Ireland Fleadh in 1985.
In 2013 Karen was awarded ‘Female Musician of the Year’ by Chicago Irish American News and ‘Instrumental Album of the Year’ by Live Ireland. In 2014 she was award a ‘Bliain na Cruinne’ Award by Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann for teaching and other services to Irish culture overseas.
“That she is an exquisite fiddler is beyond question. Almost by definition, the whole character of the album is, of course, London Irish – a style of which Karen is undoubtedly today one of the very finest exponents”. The Irish Post
Renowned for his melodic and warmly lyrical trumpet playing, Chris Batchelor has been composing music for almost as long as he’s been performing. Winner of the prestigious Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award for Composers and a BBC Jazz Award, this new ensemble sees Batchelor further honing and distilling the approach he established in his writing for the influential groups Loose Tubes and Big Air.
Batchelor’s distinctive compositions for Zoetic are the outcome of his long lasting immersion in a wide range of music in London’s varied scene, from East African guitar band grooves to echoes of wistful European folk themes and sinuous lines reminiscent of Arabic music.
Zoetic is an exceptional combination of musicians who have played together for years in many other settings. Guitarist John Parricelli and bassist Steve Watts were fellow members of Loose Tubes, for which Batchelor was a key composer and soloist. The addition of violist Margrit Hasler and percussionist Paul Clarvis results in a unique and intriguing collective sound, rich in textural possibilities.
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.
Fauré, V Williams and Hussey – HCS Concert 21 May 2022
HCS’s Spring concert presents an enduring French choral favourite together with English song settings of celebrated poems by the seventeenth century Anglican priest George Herbert – including a new commission by HCS, and a piece in anticipation of the upcoming 150th anniversary of Vaughan Williams’ birth.
Gabriel Fauré’s famous Requiem in D minor, opus 48, was composed mainly between 1887 and 1890 as a setting of the shortened Catholic Mass for the Dead. The work, which focuses on eternal rest and consolation, is in seven movements and scored for soprano and baritone soloists, mixed choir, orchestra and organ. The Requiem was first performed in 1888 at La Madeleine in Paris, with the composer himself conducting. Fauré later revised and expanded the work, reworking it for full orchestra. In 1924 the Requiem was performed at Fauré’s own funeral in its full orchestral version. HCS will perform the version with organ accompaniment.
The English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote his Five Mystical Songs between 1906 and 1911. The piece sets spiritually-themed poems by George Herbert and was first performed in 1911 at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester, with the composer himself conducting. The Five Mystical Songs will be performed by HCS in the version for baritone soloist with choir and organ.
Songs from The Temple by Christopher Hussey is a new work commissioned by HCS and receiving its world première performance. The piece sets three poems by George Herbert – The Dawning, Love, and The Star – and is scored for solo voices, mixed choir and organ.
The programme also includes George Herbert’s metrical psalm The Lord is my Shepherd, set to the third psalm tune of the sixteenth century English composer Thomas Tallis and scored for mixed choir; as well as poems by Herbert set by the twentieth century English composers Eric Thiman and Michael Head for soprano and baritone soloists.
Sunday lunchtime concert: Viennese café music
Sunday 22nd May 12 noon.
Tickets £15, including a glass of Buck’s Fizz
Joanna Ly (violin) and Martin Andre (piano) will play music by Dvorak, Mendelssohn and Fritz Kreisler.
Booking through Eventbrite – click here
Waterlow Park Trust AGM
6:30pm for 7pm Monday 23rd May at Lauderdale House
A Zero Carbon Park? But what might this mean?
The Waterlow Park Trust Advisory Group will explain its role in giving local stakeholders a role in governance, policy and operational oversight in Waterlow Park.
The Trust strategy will be presented and your input sought, especially in relation to one of the objectives which is to develop what it means to be a ‘zero carbon park’ and how such an objective might be achieved.
To find out more about the Trust and the work of the Advisory Group please visit www.waterlowparktrust.org.uk
The class is suitable for beginners and is friendly and inclusive. Style is Hatha yoga with various influences – gentle, but still delivering strength and flexibility. Come and try a class to enhance your sense of wellbeing, release stress and tension and to experience deep relaxation. Mats provided, free parking (for now, but check signs!) no need to book – just turn up. The class is in the beautiful church – it’s set back a bit and has big blue doors. The class is mixed level/mixed ability/mixed age. I am a registered BWY teacher and fully insured. For more info about me/my yoga, have a look at my website
Embodied carbon:
The hidden emissions impact of your building works
Wednesday 25th May 7.00 pm
10A south Grove N6 6BS and on Zoom
Presentations by Elspeth Clements and Dermot Barnes
Full details here
Free event but please booked your place:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/embodied-carbon-the-hidden-emissions-impact-of-your-building-works-tickets-301564175567
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 class is suitable for beginners and is friendly and inclusive. Style is Hatha yoga with various influences – gentle, but still delivering strength and flexibility. Come and try a class to enhance your sense of wellbeing, release stress and tension and to experience deep relaxation. Mats provided, free parking (for now, but check signs!) no need to book – just turn up. The class is in the beautiful church – it’s set back a bit and has big blue doors. The class is mixed level/mixed ability/mixed age. I am a registered BWY teacher and fully insured. For more info about me/my yoga, have a look at my website
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.
Vernacular Slide Photography and Highgate School’s Collection
Elaine Woodbridge has been a volunteer archivist at Highgate School for the last two years working on the school’s photographic slide collection and other projects. Elaine has been fascinated with mid-century slide photographs since she began collecting them more than twenty years ago in South Africa. In her journey with old slides, she has digitised and creatively edited them, shared them on social media, made art and given public talks about them.
Found photographs have an enthusiastic following in popular culture where people do everything from collecting, blogging and making art with them, to trying to reunite them with their original owners. The snapshots of yesterday have also influenced mainstream photography and given rise to new aesthetic traditions. They have great creative potential and have been used by artists in a myriad of ways. But they also contain an intimate and important record of people’s lives and society in past decades, as well as the worlds of work and education. Elaine has read widely on this subject which finds itself at the meeting place of technology, history, popular culture, fine art and archives.
Elaine is completing a Masters degree in Archives and Records Management at the University of Dundee and previously studied Archaeology, Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Cape Town. She is not averse to scratching around in flea markets and dusty drawers for lost photographs. Elaine was delighted to be given the task of working with Highgate’s slide collections, showing school life in the 1960s and 1980s, which she says is a treasure trove of surprising images that open a window on decades past, and is a valuable component of the school’s archive holdings. She asks what we can learn from them and how to understand the collection against the backdrop of British vernacular photography.
Elaine will discuss concepts of snapshot photography and offer behind-the-scenes insights into caring for and archiving a slide collection, covering storage and preservation, copyright and digitisation. Her talk will be illustrated with stunning images from her South African collection, as well as those of Highgate School. She will comment on the value of the collection for bringing to light the school’s changing education technology, built environment and way of life. The 1960s to 1980s was a period on the brink of great technological and digital change. It is a world still cherished in the living memories of many parents and alumni.
Join Elaine Woodbridge at Highgate School on June 6 2022 to hear more about this intriguing topic and see a glimpse of life at the school back in the day.