Members of the Highgate Watercolour Group are welcoming visitors back to the beautiful historic setting of Lauderdale House, where 20 artists will exhibit around 200 framed works on paper at their 2025 exhibition.
The exhibition across two gallery floors will include artwork from the group’s visits across north London, painting en plein air in Highgate, Hampstead, Alexandra Palace, Holland Park and Central London, plus landscapes and seascapes from further afield. Expressive floral paintings, contemplative still lifes and abstracts will also be on show, with a small works section comprising miniature masterpieces at minimal prices. With diverse themes and a range of artistic styles, there will be something for all to enjoy.
Exhibiting Artists: Feroze Antia | Chris Baker | Freda Blayney | Maureen Bocking | Cathy Burkinshaw | Ruth Edwards | Jacqueline Freeman | Edmund Gordon | Peter Hassell | Ruijin Hu | Shirley Hodgson | John Lambie | Sue Lees | Brenda McDowell | Judith Pedersen | Maggie Pettigrew | Andrew Riley | Marilyn Southey | Morley Speed | Vanessa Whinney
IMPORTANT NOTICE The exhibition is scheduled to open daily from 12noon–4pm, however it is important to check with Lauderdale House before your visit, as the exhibition may be closed at short notice. Contact Lauderdale House on 020 8348 8716.
Highgate Gallery in conjunction with The Wolf Collective is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by acclaimed British artist Adrian Hemming.
This exhibition brings together a significant body of work spanning Hemming’s decades-long career,
including oil paintings, prints, drawings, and watercolours.
Known for his meditative landscapes and luminous handling of colour, Hemming’s practice invites viewers
to reflect on how memory shapes perception—and how the land itself becomes a repository of both
personal and collective experience.
The Shape of Memory engages deeply with themes drawn from cultural history and philosophy.
Echoing Simon Schama’s Landscape and Memory, the exhibition explores landscape not merely
as a backdrop, but as a force through which identity, myth, and memory are forged. Hemming’s
work also resonates with both Nietzsche and Proust’s reflections on conscious remembering in the
body, where memory is not only stored in the mind but experienced viscerally—through rhythm,
sensation, and image.
As noted in the late Professor Denis Cosgrove’s essay on Hemming, his landscapes are “charged with the
geography of emotion,” operating between place and psyche. Hemming’s canvases often blur the boundary
between inner and outer worlds, rendering terrain that is at once real and remembered, abstract and intimate.
This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to engage with the full emotional and intellectual range of
Hemming’s work—a practice deeply rooted in the poetics of place and the subtle architectures of memory.
Adrian Hemming at Highgate Gallery opening times:
Friday 14 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 November: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 19 – Friday 21 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 November: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 26 & Thursday 27 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Members of the Highgate Watercolour Group are welcoming visitors back to the beautiful historic setting of Lauderdale House, where 20 artists will exhibit around 200 framed works on paper at their 2025 exhibition.
The exhibition across two gallery floors will include artwork from the group’s visits across north London, painting en plein air in Highgate, Hampstead, Alexandra Palace, Holland Park and Central London, plus landscapes and seascapes from further afield. Expressive floral paintings, contemplative still lifes and abstracts will also be on show, with a small works section comprising miniature masterpieces at minimal prices. With diverse themes and a range of artistic styles, there will be something for all to enjoy.
Exhibiting Artists: Feroze Antia | Chris Baker | Freda Blayney | Maureen Bocking | Cathy Burkinshaw | Ruth Edwards | Jacqueline Freeman | Edmund Gordon | Peter Hassell | Ruijin Hu | Shirley Hodgson | John Lambie | Sue Lees | Brenda McDowell | Judith Pedersen | Maggie Pettigrew | Andrew Riley | Marilyn Southey | Morley Speed | Vanessa Whinney
IMPORTANT NOTICE The exhibition is scheduled to open daily from 12noon–4pm, however it is important to check with Lauderdale House before your visit, as the exhibition may be closed at short notice. Contact Lauderdale House on 020 8348 8716.
Performed by Gerard Logan
(Olivier Nominee & Winner of The Stage Newspaper’s ‘Best Solo Performer of the 2011 Edinburgh Festival)
Directed by Gareth Armstrong
Music by Simon Slater
Highgate Gallery in conjunction with The Wolf Collective is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by acclaimed British artist Adrian Hemming.
This exhibition brings together a significant body of work spanning Hemming’s decades-long career,
including oil paintings, prints, drawings, and watercolours.
Known for his meditative landscapes and luminous handling of colour, Hemming’s practice invites viewers
to reflect on how memory shapes perception—and how the land itself becomes a repository of both
personal and collective experience.
The Shape of Memory engages deeply with themes drawn from cultural history and philosophy.
Echoing Simon Schama’s Landscape and Memory, the exhibition explores landscape not merely
as a backdrop, but as a force through which identity, myth, and memory are forged. Hemming’s
work also resonates with both Nietzsche and Proust’s reflections on conscious remembering in the
body, where memory is not only stored in the mind but experienced viscerally—through rhythm,
sensation, and image.
As noted in the late Professor Denis Cosgrove’s essay on Hemming, his landscapes are “charged with the
geography of emotion,” operating between place and psyche. Hemming’s canvases often blur the boundary
between inner and outer worlds, rendering terrain that is at once real and remembered, abstract and intimate.
This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to engage with the full emotional and intellectual range of
Hemming’s work—a practice deeply rooted in the poetics of place and the subtle architectures of memory.
Adrian Hemming at Highgate Gallery opening times:
Friday 14 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 November: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 19 – Friday 21 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 November: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 26 & Thursday 27 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Highgate Gallery in conjunction with The Wolf Collective is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by acclaimed British artist Adrian Hemming.
This exhibition brings together a significant body of work spanning Hemming’s decades-long career,
including oil paintings, prints, drawings, and watercolours.
Known for his meditative landscapes and luminous handling of colour, Hemming’s practice invites viewers
to reflect on how memory shapes perception—and how the land itself becomes a repository of both
personal and collective experience.
The Shape of Memory engages deeply with themes drawn from cultural history and philosophy.
Echoing Simon Schama’s Landscape and Memory, the exhibition explores landscape not merely
as a backdrop, but as a force through which identity, myth, and memory are forged. Hemming’s
work also resonates with both Nietzsche and Proust’s reflections on conscious remembering in the
body, where memory is not only stored in the mind but experienced viscerally—through rhythm,
sensation, and image.
As noted in the late Professor Denis Cosgrove’s essay on Hemming, his landscapes are “charged with the
geography of emotion,” operating between place and psyche. Hemming’s canvases often blur the boundary
between inner and outer worlds, rendering terrain that is at once real and remembered, abstract and intimate.
This exhibition offers a rare opportunity to engage with the full emotional and intellectual range of
Hemming’s work—a practice deeply rooted in the poetics of place and the subtle architectures of memory.
Adrian Hemming at Highgate Gallery opening times:
Friday 14 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 15 & Sunday 16 November: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 19 – Friday 21 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 November: 10.00 – 16.00
Wednesday 26 & Thursday 27 November: 13.00 – 17.00
Thursday 27 November 2025
6:45 for 7:00 pm
10A South Grove, N6 6BS
Entry: £5 (includes a glass of wine)
Roger Gibbons of the European Butterflies Group will give an insightful talk on important butterfly species and what they tell us about building a sustainable future.
https://buytickets.at/highgatesociety/1923622
Handmade In Highgate, the Winter/Christmas fairs 2025
28 – 30 November 2025
This year Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution will be hosting 2 Christmas/Winter fairs back to back.
Each show will feature different designer/makers and artists, with the exceptions being our resident artisan baker The Two Shuks and brilliant horticulturists John Cullen Gardens.
As ever we are overwhelmed with amazingly talented makers in all disciplines. Expect some of the Uk’s finest glass makers, artists, jewellers, ceramicists, paper and textile artists: makers working in all disciplines and all price ranges.
Handmade In Highgate also offers visitors the opportunity to look around the beautiful, historic , normally closed to the public Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution (HLSI). Founded in 1839, the HLSI was established to deliver arts and sciences through the provision of lectures, classes a library and gallery. Still in operation, the HLSI is now also a membership building.
Located in the heart of Highgate Village, entry to Handmade in Highgate is always free, and everyone is welcome.
Handmade in Highgate will take place on:
Friday 28 November: 5pm -8pm
Saturday 29 November: 10am – 6pm
Sunday 30 November: 11am 0- 5pm
Handmade In Highgate, the Winter/Christmas fairs 2025
28 – 30 November 2025
This year Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution will be hosting 2 Christmas/Winter fairs back to back.
Each show will feature different designer/makers and artists, with the exceptions being our resident artisan baker The Two Shuks and brilliant horticulturists John Cullen Gardens.
As ever we are overwhelmed with amazingly talented makers in all disciplines. Expect some of the Uk’s finest glass makers, artists, jewellers, ceramicists, paper and textile artists: makers working in all disciplines and all price ranges.
Handmade In Highgate also offers visitors the opportunity to look around the beautiful, historic , normally closed to the public Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution (HLSI). Founded in 1839, the HLSI was established to deliver arts and sciences through the provision of lectures, classes a library and gallery. Still in operation, the HLSI is now also a membership building.
Located in the heart of Highgate Village, entry to Handmade in Highgate is always free, and everyone is welcome.
Handmade in Highgate will take place on:
Friday 28 November: 5pm -8pm
Saturday 29 November: 10am – 6pm
Sunday 30 November: 11am 0- 5pm
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.
Handmade In Highgate, the Winter/Christmas fairs 2025
28 – 30 November 2025
This year Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution will be hosting 2 Christmas/Winter fairs back to back.
Each show will feature different designer/makers and artists, with the exceptions being our resident artisan baker The Two Shuks and brilliant horticulturists John Cullen Gardens.
As ever we are overwhelmed with amazingly talented makers in all disciplines. Expect some of the Uk’s finest glass makers, artists, jewellers, ceramicists, paper and textile artists: makers working in all disciplines and all price ranges.
Handmade In Highgate also offers visitors the opportunity to look around the beautiful, historic , normally closed to the public Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution (HLSI). Founded in 1839, the HLSI was established to deliver arts and sciences through the provision of lectures, classes a library and gallery. Still in operation, the HLSI is now also a membership building.
Located in the heart of Highgate Village, entry to Handmade in Highgate is always free, and everyone is welcome.
Handmade in Highgate will take place on:
Friday 28 November: 5pm -8pm
Saturday 29 November: 10am – 6pm
Sunday 30 November: 11am 0- 5pm
Monday 6 Nov coffee computers 10 30
Handmade In Highgate, the Winter/Christmas fairs 2025
This year Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution will be hosting 2 Christmas/Winter fairs back to back.
Each show will feature different designer/makers and artists, with the exceptions being our resident artisan baker The Two Shuks and brilliant horticulturists
John Cullen Gardens.
As ever we are overwhelmed with amazingly talented makers in all disciplines. Expect some of the Uk’s finest glass makers, artists, jewellers, ceramicists, paper and textile artists: makers working in all disciplines and all price ranges.
Handmade In Highgate also offers visitors the opportunity
to look around the beautiful, historic , normally closed to the public Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution (HLSI). Founded in 1839, the HLSI was established to deliver arts and sciences through the provision of lectures, classes a library and gallery. Still in operation, the HLSI is now also a membership building.
Located in the heart of Highgate Village, entry to Handmade in Highgate is always free, and everyone is welcome.
Handmade In Highgate will be open:
Friday 5 December: 5pm -8pm
Saturday 6 December: 10am – 6pm
Sunday 7 December: 11am – 5pm
Handmade In Highgate, the Winter/Christmas fairs 2025
This year Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution will be hosting 2 Christmas/Winter fairs back to back.
Each show will feature different designer/makers and artists, with the exceptions being our resident artisan baker The Two Shuks and brilliant horticulturists
John Cullen Gardens.
As ever we are overwhelmed with amazingly talented makers in all disciplines. Expect some of the Uk’s finest glass makers, artists, jewellers, ceramicists, paper and textile artists: makers working in all disciplines and all price ranges.
Handmade In Highgate also offers visitors the opportunity
to look around the beautiful, historic , normally closed to the public Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution (HLSI). Founded in 1839, the HLSI was established to deliver arts and sciences through the provision of lectures, classes a library and gallery. Still in operation, the HLSI is now also a membership building.
Located in the heart of Highgate Village, entry to Handmade in Highgate is always free, and everyone is welcome.
Handmade In Highgate will be open:
Friday 5 December: 5pm -8pm
Saturday 6 December: 10am – 6pm
Sunday 7 December: 11am – 5pm
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.
Handmade In Highgate, the Winter/Christmas fairs 2025
This year Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution will be hosting 2 Christmas/Winter fairs back to back.
Each show will feature different designer/makers and artists, with the exceptions being our resident artisan baker The Two Shuks and brilliant horticulturists
John Cullen Gardens.
As ever we are overwhelmed with amazingly talented makers in all disciplines. Expect some of the Uk’s finest glass makers, artists, jewellers, ceramicists, paper and textile artists: makers working in all disciplines and all price ranges.
Handmade In Highgate also offers visitors the opportunity
to look around the beautiful, historic , normally closed to the public Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution (HLSI). Founded in 1839, the HLSI was established to deliver arts and sciences through the provision of lectures, classes a library and gallery. Still in operation, the HLSI is now also a membership building.
Located in the heart of Highgate Village, entry to Handmade in Highgate is always free, and everyone is welcome.
Handmade In Highgate will be open:
Friday 5 December: 5pm -8pm
Saturday 6 December: 10am – 6pm
Sunday 7 December: 11am – 5pm
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.
Told from the perspective of Scrooge’s deceased business partner, this multi award-winning stage adaptation has been hailed as the “definitive telling of A Christmas Carol” (Redditch Standard), and rated as one of “the top Christmas shows in London, Edinburgh and around the UK” (High 50 Culture). Recognised by Queen Elizabeth II for its part in Dickensian Scholarship, this “forcefully compelling masterpiece” (Manx Independent) delivers thrills, chills and excitement aplenty for all ages.
Jacob Marley is dead and condemned to an eternity of carrying a heavy chain, forged in life; a life to which he can no longer return except to recount the tale of his miserly business partner, Ebenezer Scrooge, and the path that lead to his redemption. Through Marley’s words, we learn how three magical spirits opened Scrooge’s eyes and made him realise the true value of love and forgiveness.
★★★★★
“An absolute masterclass in one-man shows!… What a joy this show was.”
A Shiny Life For Me
“A tremendous achievement… a wonder to watch”
Plays To See
★★★★★
“Hyland was the only actor on stage, yet was able to bring a whole cast to life.”
Voice Magazine
“Hyland plays Marley with stunning conviction… a Christmas treat.”
Dark Fiction Writer
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.
Told from the perspective of Scrooge’s deceased business partner, this multi award-winning stage adaptation has been hailed as the “definitive telling of A Christmas Carol” (Redditch Standard), and rated as one of “the top Christmas shows in London, Edinburgh and around the UK” (High 50 Culture). Recognised by Queen Elizabeth II for its part in Dickensian Scholarship, this “forcefully compelling masterpiece” (Manx Independent) delivers thrills, chills and excitement aplenty for all ages.
Jacob Marley is dead and condemned to an eternity of carrying a heavy chain, forged in life; a life to which he can no longer return except to recount the tale of his miserly business partner, Ebenezer Scrooge, and the path that lead to his redemption. Through Marley’s words, we learn how three magical spirits opened Scrooge’s eyes and made him realise the true value of love and forgiveness.
★★★★★
“An absolute masterclass in one-man shows!… What a joy this show was.”
A Shiny Life For Me
“A tremendous achievement… a wonder to watch”
Plays To See
★★★★★
“Hyland was the only actor on stage, yet was able to bring a whole cast to life.”
Voice Magazine
“Hyland plays Marley with stunning conviction… a Christmas treat.”
Dark Fiction Writer
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Monday 6 Nov coffee computers 10 30
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Monday 6 Nov coffee computers 10 30
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Monday 6 Nov coffee computers 10 30
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Do come along to meet your neighbours, enjoy a good cup of coffee and find out what is happening in Highgate.
The planning committee often have someone on hand to answer planning queries.
Monday 6 Nov coffee computers 10 30
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.