Interdisciplinary artist Elspeth Hamilton, who has also worked as an architect, glass artist, teacher, writer and environmental educator, presents an exhibition which spans over 40 years of work and focuses thematically on seascapes, riverscapes and portraits. 
Her expressive paintings explore the language between figuration and abstraction, and are preoccupied with the tension Hamilton sees between ‘rough and smooth’, both in terms of the forces of nature, and our experience of life. It was a preoccupation she first realised on the Pembrokeshire coast where she was fascinated by the stillness of a rock pool juxtaposed with the wild sea. On the coastline in Dominica, she depicts the effects of erosion on the dramatic cliffs. In Spain, she captures an approaching storm and in Cornwall the elemental drama where sea meets rugged cliffs.
Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00Sundays 11:00-17:00, Mondays & Tuesdays Closed Private View: Friday 10 February 2023 18:00-20:30
Interdisciplinary artist Elspeth Hamilton, who has also worked as an architect, glass artist, teacher, writer and environmental educator, presents an exhibition which spans over 40 years of work and focuses thematically on seascapes, riverscapes and portraits.
Her expressive paintings explore the language between figuration and abstraction, and are preoccupied with the tension Hamilton sees between ‘rough and smooth’, both in terms of the forces of nature, and our experience of life. It was a preoccupation she first realised on the Pembrokeshire coast where she was fascinated by the stillness of a rock pool juxtaposed with the wild sea. On the coastline in Dominica, she depicts the effects of erosion on the dramatic cliffs. In Spain, she captures an approaching storm and in Cornwall the elemental drama where sea meets rugged cliffs.
Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00Sundays 11:00-17:00, Mondays & Tuesdays Closed Private View: Friday 10 February 2023 18:00-20:30
Interdisciplinary artist Elspeth Hamilton, who has also worked as an architect, glass artist, teacher, writer and environmental educator, presents an exhibition which spans over 40 years of work and focuses thematically on seascapes, riverscapes and portraits.
Her expressive paintings explore the language between figuration and abstraction, and are preoccupied with the tension Hamilton sees between ‘rough and smooth’, both in terms of the forces of nature, and our experience of life. It was a preoccupation she first realised on the Pembrokeshire coast where she was fascinated by the stillness of a rock pool juxtaposed with the wild sea. On the coastline in Dominica, she depicts the effects of erosion on the dramatic cliffs. In Spain, she captures an approaching storm and in Cornwall the elemental drama where sea meets rugged cliffs.
Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00Sundays 11:00-17:00, Mondays & Tuesdays Closed Private View: Friday 10 February 2023 18:00-20:30
Interdisciplinary artist Elspeth Hamilton, who has also worked as an architect, glass artist, teacher, writer and environmental educator, presents an exhibition which spans over 40 years of work and focuses thematically on seascapes, riverscapes and portraits.
Her expressive paintings explore the language between figuration and abstraction, and are preoccupied with the tension Hamilton sees between ‘rough and smooth’, both in terms of the forces of nature, and our experience of life. It was a preoccupation she first realised on the Pembrokeshire coast where she was fascinated by the stillness of a rock pool juxtaposed with the wild sea. On the coastline in Dominica, she depicts the effects of erosion on the dramatic cliffs. In Spain, she captures an approaching storm and in Cornwall the elemental drama where sea meets rugged cliffs.
Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00Sundays 11:00-17:00, Mondays & Tuesdays Closed Private View: Friday 10 February 2023 18:00-20:30
Interdisciplinary artist Elspeth Hamilton, who has also worked as an architect, glass artist, teacher, writer and environmental educator, presents an exhibition which spans over 40 years of work and focuses thematically on seascapes, riverscapes and portraits.
Her expressive paintings explore the language between figuration and abstraction, and are preoccupied with the tension Hamilton sees between ‘rough and smooth’, both in terms of the forces of nature, and our experience of life. It was a preoccupation she first realised on the Pembrokeshire coast where she was fascinated by the stillness of a rock pool juxtaposed with the wild sea. On the coastline in Dominica, she depicts the effects of erosion on the dramatic cliffs. In Spain, she captures an approaching storm and in Cornwall the elemental drama where sea meets rugged cliffs.
Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00Sundays 11:00-17:00, Mondays & Tuesdays Closed Private View: Friday 10 February 2023 18:00-20:30
Interdisciplinary artist Elspeth Hamilton, who has also worked as an architect, glass artist, teacher, writer and environmental educator, presents an exhibition which spans over 40 years of work and focuses thematically on seascapes, riverscapes and portraits.
Her expressive paintings explore the language between figuration and abstraction, and are preoccupied with the tension Hamilton sees between ‘rough and smooth’, both in terms of the forces of nature, and our experience of life. It was a preoccupation she first realised on the Pembrokeshire coast where she was fascinated by the stillness of a rock pool juxtaposed with the wild sea. On the coastline in Dominica, she depicts the effects of erosion on the dramatic cliffs. In Spain, she captures an approaching storm and in Cornwall the elemental drama where sea meets rugged cliffs.
Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00Sundays 11:00-17:00, Mondays & Tuesdays Closed Private View: Friday 10 February 2023 18:00-20:30
Interdisciplinary artist Elspeth Hamilton, who has also worked as an architect, glass artist, teacher, writer and environmental educator, presents an exhibition which spans over 40 years of work and focuses thematically on seascapes, riverscapes and portraits.
Her expressive paintings explore the language between figuration and abstraction, and are preoccupied with the tension Hamilton sees between ‘rough and smooth’, both in terms of the forces of nature, and our experience of life. It was a preoccupation she first realised on the Pembrokeshire coast where she was fascinated by the stillness of a rock pool juxtaposed with the wild sea. On the coastline in Dominica, she depicts the effects of erosion on the dramatic cliffs. In Spain, she captures an approaching storm and in Cornwall the elemental drama where sea meets rugged cliffs.
Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00Sundays 11:00-17:00, Mondays & Tuesdays Closed Private View: Friday 10 February 2023 18:00-20:30
Interdisciplinary artist Elspeth Hamilton, who has also worked as an architect, glass artist, teacher, writer and environmental educator, presents an exhibition which spans over 40 years of work and focuses thematically on seascapes, riverscapes and portraits.
Her expressive paintings explore the language between figuration and abstraction, and are preoccupied with the tension Hamilton sees between ‘rough and smooth’, both in terms of the forces of nature, and our experience of life. It was a preoccupation she first realised on the Pembrokeshire coast where she was fascinated by the stillness of a rock pool juxtaposed with the wild sea. On the coastline in Dominica, she depicts the effects of erosion on the dramatic cliffs. In Spain, she captures an approaching storm and in Cornwall the elemental drama where sea meets rugged cliffs.
Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00Sundays 11:00-17:00, Mondays & Tuesdays Closed Private View: Friday 10 February 2023 18:00-20:30
Handmade In Highgate is back with up to 30 brilliant designer/makers and artists. We are open:
Friday 10 March: 5pm – 8pm
Saturday 11 March: 10am – 6pm
Sunday 12 March: 11am – 5pm
Handmade in Highgate is held in the beautiful Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution in Highgate Village. Entrance is FREE
Handmade In Highgate is back with up to 30 brilliant designer/makers and artists. We are open:
Friday 10 March: 5pm – 8pm
Saturday 11 March: 10am – 6pm
Sunday 12 March: 11am – 5pm
Handmade in Highgate is held in the beautiful Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution in Highgate Village. Entrance is FREE
Handmade In Highgate is back with up to 30 brilliant designer/makers and artists. We are open:
Friday 10 March: 5pm – 8pm
Saturday 11 March: 10am – 6pm
Sunday 12 March: 11am – 5pm
Handmade in Highgate is held in the beautiful Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution in Highgate Village. Entrance is FREE
Nathaniel Boyd a British-Australian artist born and brought up in Highgate, presents a show of glowing still lives set in dreamscape worlds, and fine, plein air landscapes. Through the medium of oil, Boyd enters a performative state, drawn from his work as a classical cellist, to create work with transformative emotional power and lasting impact.
Nathaniel Boyd a British-Australian artist born and brought up in Highgate, presents a show of glowing still lives set in dreamscape worlds, and fine, plein air landscapes. Through the medium of oil, Boyd enters a performative state, drawn from his work as a classical cellist, to create work with transformative emotional power and lasting impact.
Tom Scase
A restless mind at work and play
Highgate Gallery: 21 April – 4 May
Due to the unfortunate cancellation of the Eugenia Alekseyev exhibition, Highgate Gallery is pleased to announce that artist Tom Scase will show in her place.
A restless mind at work and play.
The exhibition will feature unseen archive work alongside recent insights. Scase employs joyful use of colour juxtaposed with sinister undertones that call into question our perception of space and relationship with nature, through drawing, painting, photography and collage. Tom’s work is organic and rhythmic. A restless mind at work and play provides a rare opportunity to see how connections evolve.
Highgate Gallery at Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution
Open: Wedneseday – Friday: 13.00 17.00
Saturday: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 11.00 – 17.00
11 South Grove
London N6 6BS
020 8340 3343
Tom Scase
A restless mind at work and play
Highgate Gallery: 21 April – 4 May
Due to the unfortunate cancellation of the Eugenia Alekseyev exhibition, Highgate Gallery is pleased to announce that artist Tom Scase will show in her place.
A restless mind at work and play.
The exhibition will feature unseen archive work alongside recent insights. Scase employs joyful use of colour juxtaposed with sinister undertones that call into question our perception of space and relationship with nature, through drawing, painting, photography and collage. Tom’s work is organic and rhythmic. A restless mind at work and play provides a rare opportunity to see how connections evolve.
Highgate Gallery at Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution
Open: Wedneseday – Friday: 13.00 17.00
Saturday: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 11.00 – 17.00
11 South Grove
London N6 6BS
020 8340 3343
Tom Scase
A restless mind at work and play
Highgate Gallery: 21 April – 4 May
Due to the unfortunate cancellation of the Eugenia Alekseyev exhibition, Highgate Gallery is pleased to announce that artist Tom Scase will show in her place.
A restless mind at work and play.
The exhibition will feature unseen archive work alongside recent insights. Scase employs joyful use of colour juxtaposed with sinister undertones that call into question our perception of space and relationship with nature, through drawing, painting, photography and collage. Tom’s work is organic and rhythmic. A restless mind at work and play provides a rare opportunity to see how connections evolve.
Highgate Gallery at Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution
Open: Wedneseday – Friday: 13.00 17.00
Saturday: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 11.00 – 17.00
11 South Grove
London N6 6BS
020 8340 3343
Tom Scase
A restless mind at work and play
Highgate Gallery: 21 April – 4 May
Due to the unfortunate cancellation of the Eugenia Alekseyev exhibition, Highgate Gallery is pleased to announce that artist Tom Scase will show in her place.
A restless mind at work and play.
The exhibition will feature unseen archive work alongside recent insights. Scase employs joyful use of colour juxtaposed with sinister undertones that call into question our perception of space and relationship with nature, through drawing, painting, photography and collage. Tom’s work is organic and rhythmic. A restless mind at work and play provides a rare opportunity to see how connections evolve.
Highgate Gallery at Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution
Open: Wedneseday – Friday: 13.00 17.00
Saturday: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 11.00 – 17.00
11 South Grove
London N6 6BS
020 8340 3343
Tom Scase
A restless mind at work and play
Highgate Gallery: 21 April – 4 May
Due to the unfortunate cancellation of the Eugenia Alekseyev exhibition, Highgate Gallery is pleased to announce that artist Tom Scase will show in her place.
A restless mind at work and play.
The exhibition will feature unseen archive work alongside recent insights. Scase employs joyful use of colour juxtaposed with sinister undertones that call into question our perception of space and relationship with nature, through drawing, painting, photography and collage. Tom’s work is organic and rhythmic. A restless mind at work and play provides a rare opportunity to see how connections evolve.
Highgate Gallery at Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution
Open: Wedneseday – Friday: 13.00 17.00
Saturday: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 11.00 – 17.00
11 South Grove
London N6 6BS
020 8340 3343
Tom Scase
A restless mind at work and play
Highgate Gallery: 21 April – 4 May
Due to the unfortunate cancellation of the Eugenia Alekseyev exhibition, Highgate Gallery is pleased to announce that artist Tom Scase will show in her place.
A restless mind at work and play.
The exhibition will feature unseen archive work alongside recent insights. Scase employs joyful use of colour juxtaposed with sinister undertones that call into question our perception of space and relationship with nature, through drawing, painting, photography and collage. Tom’s work is organic and rhythmic. A restless mind at work and play provides a rare opportunity to see how connections evolve.
Highgate Gallery at Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution
Open: Wedneseday – Friday: 13.00 17.00
Saturday: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 11.00 – 17.00
11 South Grove
London N6 6BS
020 8340 3343
Tom Scase
A restless mind at work and play
Highgate Gallery: 21 April – 4 May
Due to the unfortunate cancellation of the Eugenia Alekseyev exhibition, Highgate Gallery is pleased to announce that artist Tom Scase will show in her place.
A restless mind at work and play.
The exhibition will feature unseen archive work alongside recent insights. Scase employs joyful use of colour juxtaposed with sinister undertones that call into question our perception of space and relationship with nature, through drawing, painting, photography and collage. Tom’s work is organic and rhythmic. A restless mind at work and play provides a rare opportunity to see how connections evolve.
Highgate Gallery at Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution
Open: Wedneseday – Friday: 13.00 17.00
Saturday: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 11.00 – 17.00
11 South Grove
London N6 6BS
020 8340 3343
Tom Scase
A restless mind at work and play
Highgate Gallery: 21 April – 4 May
Due to the unfortunate cancellation of the Eugenia Alekseyev exhibition, Highgate Gallery is pleased to announce that artist Tom Scase will show in her place.
A restless mind at work and play.
The exhibition will feature unseen archive work alongside recent insights. Scase employs joyful use of colour juxtaposed with sinister undertones that call into question our perception of space and relationship with nature, through drawing, painting, photography and collage. Tom’s work is organic and rhythmic. A restless mind at work and play provides a rare opportunity to see how connections evolve.
Highgate Gallery at Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution
Open: Wedneseday – Friday: 13.00 17.00
Saturday: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 11.00 – 17.00
11 South Grove
London N6 6BS
020 8340 3343
Tom Scase
A restless mind at work and play
Highgate Gallery: 21 April – 4 May
Due to the unfortunate cancellation of the Eugenia Alekseyev exhibition, Highgate Gallery is pleased to announce that artist Tom Scase will show in her place.
A restless mind at work and play.
The exhibition will feature unseen archive work alongside recent insights. Scase employs joyful use of colour juxtaposed with sinister undertones that call into question our perception of space and relationship with nature, through drawing, painting, photography and collage. Tom’s work is organic and rhythmic. A restless mind at work and play provides a rare opportunity to see how connections evolve.
Highgate Gallery at Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution
Open: Wedneseday – Friday: 13.00 17.00
Saturday: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 11.00 – 17.00
11 South Grove
London N6 6BS
020 8340 3343
Tom Scase
A restless mind at work and play
Highgate Gallery: 21 April – 4 May
Due to the unfortunate cancellation of the Eugenia Alekseyev exhibition, Highgate Gallery is pleased to announce that artist Tom Scase will show in her place.
A restless mind at work and play.
The exhibition will feature unseen archive work alongside recent insights. Scase employs joyful use of colour juxtaposed with sinister undertones that call into question our perception of space and relationship with nature, through drawing, painting, photography and collage. Tom’s work is organic and rhythmic. A restless mind at work and play provides a rare opportunity to see how connections evolve.
Highgate Gallery at Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution
Open: Wedneseday – Friday: 13.00 17.00
Saturday: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 11.00 – 17.00
11 South Grove
London N6 6BS
020 8340 3343
Tom Scase
A restless mind at work and play
Highgate Gallery: 21 April – 4 May
Due to the unfortunate cancellation of the Eugenia Alekseyev exhibition, Highgate Gallery is pleased to announce that artist Tom Scase will show in her place.
A restless mind at work and play.
The exhibition will feature unseen archive work alongside recent insights. Scase employs joyful use of colour juxtaposed with sinister undertones that call into question our perception of space and relationship with nature, through drawing, painting, photography and collage. Tom’s work is organic and rhythmic. A restless mind at work and play provides a rare opportunity to see how connections evolve.
Highgate Gallery at Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution
Open: Wedneseday – Friday: 13.00 17.00
Saturday: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 11.00 – 17.00
11 South Grove
London N6 6BS
020 8340 3343
Highgate Gallery – Heather Libson – The World Slips By
Expressed with positivity and a lightness of touch, this exhibition is a reflection of the artist’s concern with impermanence and her own mortality. The paintings in the series, The World Slips By are a travelogue of time, sensation, memory and place. They are a skilful synthesis of freshness and vibrancy, experience and restraint
Heather Libson is an artist who lives and works in East London.
Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00 Sundays 11:00-17:00,
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 12 May 2023 18:00-20:30
Highgate Gallery – Heather Libson – The World Slips By
Expressed with positivity and a lightness of touch, this exhibition is a reflection of the artist’s concern with impermanence and her own mortality. The paintings in the series, The World Slips By are a travelogue of time, sensation, memory and place. They are a skilful synthesis of freshness and vibrancy, experience and restraint
Heather Libson is an artist who lives and works in East London.
Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00 Sundays 11:00-17:00,
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 12 May 2023 18:00-20:30
Highgate Gallery – Heather Libson – The World Slips By
Expressed with positivity and a lightness of touch, this exhibition is a reflection of the artist’s concern with impermanence and her own mortality. The paintings in the series, The World Slips By are a travelogue of time, sensation, memory and place. They are a skilful synthesis of freshness and vibrancy, experience and restraint
Heather Libson is an artist who lives and works in East London.
Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00 Sundays 11:00-17:00,
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 12 May 2023 18:00-20:30
Highgate Gallery – Heather Libson – The World Slips By
Expressed with positivity and a lightness of touch, this exhibition is a reflection of the artist’s concern with impermanence and her own mortality. The paintings in the series, The World Slips By are a travelogue of time, sensation, memory and place. They are a skilful synthesis of freshness and vibrancy, experience and restraint
Heather Libson is an artist who lives and works in East London.
Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00 Sundays 11:00-17:00,
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 12 May 2023 18:00-20:30
Highgate Gallery – Heather Libson – The World Slips By
Expressed with positivity and a lightness of touch, this exhibition is a reflection of the artist’s concern with impermanence and her own mortality. The paintings in the series, The World Slips By are a travelogue of time, sensation, memory and place. They are a skilful synthesis of freshness and vibrancy, experience and restraint
Heather Libson is an artist who lives and works in East London.
Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00 Sundays 11:00-17:00,
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 12 May 2023 18:00-20:30
Highgate Gallery – Heather Libson – The World Slips By
Expressed with positivity and a lightness of touch, this exhibition is a reflection of the artist’s concern with impermanence and her own mortality. The paintings in the series, The World Slips By are a travelogue of time, sensation, memory and place. They are a skilful synthesis of freshness and vibrancy, experience and restraint
Heather Libson is an artist who lives and works in East London.
Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00 Sundays 11:00-17:00,
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 12 May 2023 18:00-20:30
Highgate Gallery – Heather Libson – The World Slips By
Expressed with positivity and a lightness of touch, this exhibition is a reflection of the artist’s concern with impermanence and her own mortality. The paintings in the series, The World Slips By are a travelogue of time, sensation, memory and place. They are a skilful synthesis of freshness and vibrancy, experience and restraint
Heather Libson is an artist who lives and works in East London.
Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00 Sundays 11:00-17:00,
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 12 May 2023 18:00-20:30
Highgate Gallery – Heather Libson – The World Slips By
Expressed with positivity and a lightness of touch, this exhibition is a reflection of the artist’s concern with impermanence and her own mortality. The paintings in the series, The World Slips By are a travelogue of time, sensation, memory and place. They are a skilful synthesis of freshness and vibrancy, experience and restraint
Heather Libson is an artist who lives and works in East London.
Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00 Sundays 11:00-17:00,
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 12 May 2023 18:00-20:30
Highgate Gallery – Heather Libson – The World Slips By
Check opening times on website
Expressed with positivity and a lightness of touch, this exhibition is a reflection of the artist’s concern with impermanence and her own mortality. The paintings in the series, The World Slips By are a travelogue of time, sensation, memory and place. They are a skilful synthesis of freshness and vibrancy, experience and restraint
Heather Libson is an artist who lives and works in East London.
Highgate Gallery – Heather Libson – The World Slips By
Check opening times on website
Expressed with positivity and a lightness of touch, this exhibition is a reflection of the artist’s concern with impermanence and her own mortality. The paintings in the series, The World Slips By are a travelogue of time, sensation, memory and place. They are a skilful synthesis of freshness and vibrancy, experience and restraint
Heather Libson is an artist who lives and works in East London.
Maggie Jennings: Verdance at the Highgate Gallery
These vibrant drawings and paintings from nature are active celebrations of the energy and urgency of life, and life’s transformation and decay. They develop themes from Jennings successful show at Highgate Gallery 5 years ago. The shock of Covid lockdown caused the artist to experience both claustrophobia and a liberating freedom from established routine. She spent time sketching her garden’s wild proliferation; the mass and tangle of plant growth studied up-close giving rise to a wealth of visual information, resulting in some paintings being worked like tapestry. These shown alongside her delicate prints of individual plant studies.
Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00 Sundays 11:00-17:00, Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 09 June 2023 18:00-20:30
Maggie Jennings: Verdance at the Highgate Gallery
These vibrant drawings and paintings from nature are active celebrations of the energy and urgency of life, and life’s transformation and decay. They develop themes from Jennings successful show at Highgate Gallery 5 years ago. The shock of Covid lockdown caused the artist to experience both claustrophobia and a liberating freedom from established routine. She spent time sketching her garden’s wild proliferation; the mass and tangle of plant growth studied up-close giving rise to a wealth of visual information, resulting in some paintings being worked like tapestry. These shown alongside her delicate prints of individual plant studies.
Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00 Sundays 11:00-17:00, Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 09 June 2023 18:00-20:30
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Maggie Jennings: Verdance at the Highgate Gallery
These vibrant drawings and paintings from nature are active celebrations of the energy and urgency of life, and life’s transformation and decay. They develop themes from Jennings successful show at Highgate Gallery 5 years ago. The shock of Covid lockdown caused the artist to experience both claustrophobia and a liberating freedom from established routine. She spent time sketching her garden’s wild proliferation; the mass and tangle of plant growth studied up-close giving rise to a wealth of visual information, resulting in some paintings being worked like tapestry. These shown alongside her delicate prints of individual plant studies.
Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00 Sundays 11:00-17:00, Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 09 June 2023 18:00-20:30
Maggie Jennings: Verdance at the Highgate Gallery
These vibrant drawings and paintings from nature are active celebrations of the energy and urgency of life, and life’s transformation and decay. They develop themes from Jennings successful show at Highgate Gallery 5 years ago. The shock of Covid lockdown caused the artist to experience both claustrophobia and a liberating freedom from established routine. She spent time sketching her garden’s wild proliferation; the mass and tangle of plant growth studied up-close giving rise to a wealth of visual information, resulting in some paintings being worked like tapestry. These shown alongside her delicate prints of individual plant studies.
Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00, Saturdays 11:00-16:00 Sundays 11:00-17:00, Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 09 June 2023 18:00-20:30
Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution and LUX present Psychosomatic, a film performance by Richard Layzell as part of the Highgate Festival
Psychosomatic is a new work by artist Richard Layzell, his first feature length film and his 101st performance, using material gathered over a seven-year research period including as creative ecologist based at LUX in Waterlow Park.
Psychosomatic follows an intuitive approach to ecology and art practice, where expectations are confounded and accidents become central to the narrative. As this unfolds, through the voice of Kino Paxton, a (fictional) maverick environmentalist, so does the incalculable grief and loss of First Nations peoples in their relationship to land and the natural world, with their holistic philosophy that predates the Deep Ecology of Arne Naess (Norway) and the Fragments of Heraclitus (Ancient Greece).
Geographies linked to these two philosophers are also explored: the site of the first ever eco-action at Mardalsfossen and the birthplace of Heraclitus in Ephesus. A chance hearing of composer Hollis Taylor speaking on the World Service about the song of the pied butcherbird leads to a meeting in Alice Springs. Oranges drop from street trees in Selcuk outside a supermarket that has no oranges, while the two oranges left as offerings to Artemis at the temple should have been pomegranates. The slope elevates the automobile to a higher plane, up where the action is, and in Montreal the highway concrete crumbles and falls onto car roofs.
There’s an enormity to the scale of this work that’s both impressive and absurd. And this reach was never envisaged at the start. Beginning in the back streets of New Malden in 2017 and concluding with a return visit to Ephesus in 2022, the film crosses five continents, and becomes a record of the artist as traveller, performer, photographer, and hearer of voices.
To mark the upcoming screening of ‘Psychosomatic’, we are pleased to bring back Layzell’s 2021 film ‘Marvell Park’ online for a month.
Tracking the extraordinary ups and downs of 2020, ‘Marvell Park’ is a playful and personal meditation on a state of being, of how to move and interact with nature and the space of the park in a time when the world was so tangibly in flux. It takes a long view of the changing seasons and the puzzling activities of humans and other wildlife.
Richard Layzell has worked with most of the major UK public galleries and museums. He is a writer, performer, sculptor, filmmaker and the author of Enhanced Performance (ed Deborah Levy) and Cream Pages (ed Joshua Sofaer). After an extended period as an artist in industry, in the role of ‘visionaire’, he fed this experience back into the public sector, working with many diverse communities nationally and internationally.
www.thenaming.org @Layzell_Paxton