The title of this show – Where We Meet – has now taken on a new and special significance as a result of the pandemic. The importance of human interaction has been keenly felt and the essential qualities of humanity have been reappraised.
Such encounters and emotional connections are a core preoccupation in Susie Breen’s practice, an artist who captures her subjects with clarity and a raw, visceral compassion.
Drawing is the discipline that underpins her work. Combining close observation with experimentation, she explores themes of personal presence, interdependence, memory and identity. Always evocative, sensual and dynamic, her work ranges from intimate charcoal and pastel drawings to light hearted line drawings and from the text based to the abstract. She brings empathy and humour to her work in a distinctive and compelling way that connects powerfully with the viewer.
Her drawings not only capture the likeness of her subjects, but go beneath the surface to reveal expressions of inner life, giving them a psychological presence. Exaggerations of scale and form serve to enhance status and change perceptions: life size images of remembered childhood characters look viewers in the eye, larger than life crows are portrayed with rank and character, and enormous babies appear as harbingers of change.
Highgate Gallery is delighted that Susie will be drawing on site throughout the exhibition run. Visitors will be encouraged to come and discuss her work, to share their own stories, or perhaps to sit for her, actively participating in the creation of new work! (Social distancing measures will be in place at all times.)
About the artist: Susie Breen has enjoyed a multifaceted visual career as designer, media producer and artist – she sees little differentiation between roles – believing them all “water from the same creative well”.
She has exhibited in London and Dublin. She has taught Design and Observational Drawing to undergraduates and adults.
Highgate Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays. Exhibition continues until 29 Oct.
Susie Breen, I Am Change II
The title of this show – Where We Meet – has now taken on a new and special significance as a result of the pandemic. The importance of human interaction has been keenly felt and the essential qualities of humanity have been reappraised.
Such encounters and emotional connections are a core preoccupation in Susie Breen’s practice, an artist who captures her subjects with clarity and a raw, visceral compassion.
Drawing is the discipline that underpins her work. Combining close observation with experimentation, she explores themes of personal presence, interdependence, memory and identity. Always evocative, sensual and dynamic, her work ranges from intimate charcoal and pastel drawings to light hearted line drawings and from the text based to the abstract. She brings empathy and humour to her work in a distinctive and compelling way that connects powerfully with the viewer.
Her drawings not only capture the likeness of her subjects, but go beneath the surface to reveal expressions of inner life, giving them a psychological presence. Exaggerations of scale and form serve to enhance status and change perceptions: life size images of remembered childhood characters look viewers in the eye, larger than life crows are portrayed with rank and character, and enormous babies appear as harbingers of change.
Highgate Gallery is delighted that Susie will be drawing on site throughout the exhibition run. Visitors will be encouraged to come and discuss her work, to share their own stories, or perhaps to sit for her, actively participating in the creation of new work! (Social distancing measures will be in place at all times.)
About the artist: Susie Breen has enjoyed a multifaceted visual career as designer, media producer and artist – she sees little differentiation between roles – believing them all “water from the same creative well”.
She has exhibited in London and Dublin. She has taught Design and Observational Drawing to undergraduates and adults.
Highgate Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays. Exhibition continues until 29 Oct.
Susie Breen, I Am Change II
The title of this show – Where We Meet – has now taken on a new and special significance as a result of the pandemic. The importance of human interaction has been keenly felt and the essential qualities of humanity have been reappraised.
Such encounters and emotional connections are a core preoccupation in Susie Breen’s practice, an artist who captures her subjects with clarity and a raw, visceral compassion.
Drawing is the discipline that underpins her work. Combining close observation with experimentation, she explores themes of personal presence, interdependence, memory and identity. Always evocative, sensual and dynamic, her work ranges from intimate charcoal and pastel drawings to light hearted line drawings and from the text based to the abstract. She brings empathy and humour to her work in a distinctive and compelling way that connects powerfully with the viewer.
Her drawings not only capture the likeness of her subjects, but go beneath the surface to reveal expressions of inner life, giving them a psychological presence. Exaggerations of scale and form serve to enhance status and change perceptions: life size images of remembered childhood characters look viewers in the eye, larger than life crows are portrayed with rank and character, and enormous babies appear as harbingers of change.
Highgate Gallery is delighted that Susie will be drawing on site throughout the exhibition run. Visitors will be encouraged to come and discuss her work, to share their own stories, or perhaps to sit for her, actively participating in the creation of new work! (Social distancing measures will be in place at all times.)
About the artist: Susie Breen has enjoyed a multifaceted visual career as designer, media producer and artist – she sees little differentiation between roles – believing them all “water from the same creative well”.
She has exhibited in London and Dublin. She has taught Design and Observational Drawing to undergraduates and adults.
Highgate Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays. Exhibition continues until 29 Oct.
Susie Breen, I Am Change II
The title of this show – Where We Meet – has now taken on a new and special significance as a result of the pandemic. The importance of human interaction has been keenly felt and the essential qualities of humanity have been reappraised.
Such encounters and emotional connections are a core preoccupation in Susie Breen’s practice, an artist who captures her subjects with clarity and a raw, visceral compassion.
Drawing is the discipline that underpins her work. Combining close observation with experimentation, she explores themes of personal presence, interdependence, memory and identity. Always evocative, sensual and dynamic, her work ranges from intimate charcoal and pastel drawings to light hearted line drawings and from the text based to the abstract. She brings empathy and humour to her work in a distinctive and compelling way that connects powerfully with the viewer.
Her drawings not only capture the likeness of her subjects, but go beneath the surface to reveal expressions of inner life, giving them a psychological presence. Exaggerations of scale and form serve to enhance status and change perceptions: life size images of remembered childhood characters look viewers in the eye, larger than life crows are portrayed with rank and character, and enormous babies appear as harbingers of change.
Highgate Gallery is delighted that Susie will be drawing on site throughout the exhibition run. Visitors will be encouraged to come and discuss her work, to share their own stories, or perhaps to sit for her, actively participating in the creation of new work! (Social distancing measures will be in place at all times.)
About the artist: Susie Breen has enjoyed a multifaceted visual career as designer, media producer and artist – she sees little differentiation between roles – believing them all “water from the same creative well”.
She has exhibited in London and Dublin. She has taught Design and Observational Drawing to undergraduates and adults.
Highgate Gallery open Tuesday-Friday 1-5pm, Saturday 11am-4pm, Sunday 11am-5pm; closed Mondays. Exhibition continues until 29 Oct.
For detail see:
Rachael Weitzman – Recent Paintings. 6-19 November 2020 – “Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways”
Rachael Weitzman’s striking paintings of trees will delight anyone who enjoys looking at nature in a fresh and unusual way, and those familiar with Hampstead Heath and Highgate Woods will recognise individual trees and groups of trees in this powerful exhibition.
When Rachael went to the Heath for the first time, she got lost for three hours. “It was amazing. I completely lost my bearings which I thought was impossible and I loved feeling like I was in an endless wilderness. I discovered a viaduct that I didn’t know existed and two more ponds. I couldn’t believe how stunning the huge old trees were.” She also loves the Highgate Woods area. “There is something really magical about this area of woodland. It’s so unusual, even outside London, to find such ancient trees in non-agricultural land. The people who manage it have done such a fantastic job of maintaining it in an un-spoilt way.”
Now she is translating her experience of the trees and woodland into paint. “I want to convey the things that are so pleasurable to me in the visual experience of walking in the woods. I want to get a sense of the presence of the trees, of what might be described as their personality. I like to try and replicate the fine detail and patterning that you get in nature and contrast it with the bright plain of the sky.”
This show is a series of portraits of trees, mainly from the Heath but also from other London parks. Landscape paintings can be vistas or narratives but these focus in on the trees themselves. The paint forms a lattice of trunks and branches, dappled with light or silhouetted against the sky. They are characterful and strange rather than pretty or picturesque. These trees, grouped or individual are all specific, not generic. “I’m looking at Japanese prints as well as 20th century abstraction. I’m trying to combine these different elements to produce a particular style of my own that conveys a sense of solidity and scale and does justice to the subject.”
Rachael Weitzman has lived in North London for most of her life and went to Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1992. She taught there for a number of years while painting and exhibiting at various galleries and art spaces in London.
For further information please contact rachaelkirkby@yahoo.co.uk
Instagram Rachaelweitzman
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
For detail see:
Rachael Weitzman – Recent Paintings. 6-19 November 2020 – “Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways”
Rachael Weitzman’s striking paintings of trees will delight anyone who enjoys looking at nature in a fresh and unusual way, and those familiar with Hampstead Heath and Highgate Woods will recognise individual trees and groups of trees in this powerful exhibition.
When Rachael went to the Heath for the first time, she got lost for three hours. “It was amazing. I completely lost my bearings which I thought was impossible and I loved feeling like I was in an endless wilderness. I discovered a viaduct that I didn’t know existed and two more ponds. I couldn’t believe how stunning the huge old trees were.” She also loves the Highgate Woods area. “There is something really magical about this area of woodland. It’s so unusual, even outside London, to find such ancient trees in non-agricultural land. The people who manage it have done such a fantastic job of maintaining it in an un-spoilt way.”
Now she is translating her experience of the trees and woodland into paint. “I want to convey the things that are so pleasurable to me in the visual experience of walking in the woods. I want to get a sense of the presence of the trees, of what might be described as their personality. I like to try and replicate the fine detail and patterning that you get in nature and contrast it with the bright plain of the sky.”
This show is a series of portraits of trees, mainly from the Heath but also from other London parks. Landscape paintings can be vistas or narratives but these focus in on the trees themselves. The paint forms a lattice of trunks and branches, dappled with light or silhouetted against the sky. They are characterful and strange rather than pretty or picturesque. These trees, grouped or individual are all specific, not generic. “I’m looking at Japanese prints as well as 20th century abstraction. I’m trying to combine these different elements to produce a particular style of my own that conveys a sense of solidity and scale and does justice to the subject.”
Rachael Weitzman has lived in North London for most of her life and went to Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1992. She taught there for a number of years while painting and exhibiting at various galleries and art spaces in London.
For further information please contact rachaelkirkby@yahoo.co.uk
Instagram Rachaelweitzman
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
For detail see:
Rachael Weitzman – Recent Paintings. 6-19 November 2020 – “Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways”
Rachael Weitzman’s striking paintings of trees will delight anyone who enjoys looking at nature in a fresh and unusual way, and those familiar with Hampstead Heath and Highgate Woods will recognise individual trees and groups of trees in this powerful exhibition.
When Rachael went to the Heath for the first time, she got lost for three hours. “It was amazing. I completely lost my bearings which I thought was impossible and I loved feeling like I was in an endless wilderness. I discovered a viaduct that I didn’t know existed and two more ponds. I couldn’t believe how stunning the huge old trees were.” She also loves the Highgate Woods area. “There is something really magical about this area of woodland. It’s so unusual, even outside London, to find such ancient trees in non-agricultural land. The people who manage it have done such a fantastic job of maintaining it in an un-spoilt way.”
Now she is translating her experience of the trees and woodland into paint. “I want to convey the things that are so pleasurable to me in the visual experience of walking in the woods. I want to get a sense of the presence of the trees, of what might be described as their personality. I like to try and replicate the fine detail and patterning that you get in nature and contrast it with the bright plain of the sky.”
This show is a series of portraits of trees, mainly from the Heath but also from other London parks. Landscape paintings can be vistas or narratives but these focus in on the trees themselves. The paint forms a lattice of trunks and branches, dappled with light or silhouetted against the sky. They are characterful and strange rather than pretty or picturesque. These trees, grouped or individual are all specific, not generic. “I’m looking at Japanese prints as well as 20th century abstraction. I’m trying to combine these different elements to produce a particular style of my own that conveys a sense of solidity and scale and does justice to the subject.”
Rachael Weitzman has lived in North London for most of her life and went to Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1992. She taught there for a number of years while painting and exhibiting at various galleries and art spaces in London.
For further information please contact rachaelkirkby@yahoo.co.uk
Instagram Rachaelweitzman
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
Monday 9th November 2020 7.30 pm
A talk by Jill and Steve Marston
On 15th December,1859 a circular was issued convening a meeting for the purpose of establishing a society to be called the Highgate Horticultural and Floricultural Society. The first president was the Rev. C.B. Dalton, Mr James Cutbush was the treasurer, Mr J Ward the secretary, and Miss Angela Burdett-Coutts was the Lady Patroness. Born out of the Victorian tradition of philanthropy the object of the society was mainly to encourage cottage gardeners and schoolchildren in horticultural pursuits. The first exhibition was held 27th June 1860: there were 71 entries and prizes amounting to £23/7/0d were awarded.
Up to the first world war the Society’s shows were major events, attracting thousands of visitors to the grounds of Highgate’s great houses. Today the society’s three shows a year in Highgate United Reformed Church continue the tradition as a showcase for gardeners to exhibit their produce.
This is an online Zoom meeting. To book click here. You will be asked to make a small donation to the Highgate Society.
For detail see:
Rachael Weitzman – Recent Paintings. 6-19 November 2020 – “Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways”
Rachael Weitzman’s striking paintings of trees will delight anyone who enjoys looking at nature in a fresh and unusual way, and those familiar with Hampstead Heath and Highgate Woods will recognise individual trees and groups of trees in this powerful exhibition.
When Rachael went to the Heath for the first time, she got lost for three hours. “It was amazing. I completely lost my bearings which I thought was impossible and I loved feeling like I was in an endless wilderness. I discovered a viaduct that I didn’t know existed and two more ponds. I couldn’t believe how stunning the huge old trees were.” She also loves the Highgate Woods area. “There is something really magical about this area of woodland. It’s so unusual, even outside London, to find such ancient trees in non-agricultural land. The people who manage it have done such a fantastic job of maintaining it in an un-spoilt way.”
Now she is translating her experience of the trees and woodland into paint. “I want to convey the things that are so pleasurable to me in the visual experience of walking in the woods. I want to get a sense of the presence of the trees, of what might be described as their personality. I like to try and replicate the fine detail and patterning that you get in nature and contrast it with the bright plain of the sky.”
This show is a series of portraits of trees, mainly from the Heath but also from other London parks. Landscape paintings can be vistas or narratives but these focus in on the trees themselves. The paint forms a lattice of trunks and branches, dappled with light or silhouetted against the sky. They are characterful and strange rather than pretty or picturesque. These trees, grouped or individual are all specific, not generic. “I’m looking at Japanese prints as well as 20th century abstraction. I’m trying to combine these different elements to produce a particular style of my own that conveys a sense of solidity and scale and does justice to the subject.”
Rachael Weitzman has lived in North London for most of her life and went to Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1992. She taught there for a number of years while painting and exhibiting at various galleries and art spaces in London.
For further information please contact rachaelkirkby@yahoo.co.uk
Instagram Rachaelweitzman
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
For detail see:
HIGHGATE WATERCOLOUR GROUP ANNUAL EXHIBTION AT LAUDERDALE HOUSE: 11 November – 7 December. Opening hours 11am-4pm on any day not booked for a private function. Please ring LH to check before visiting: 020 8348 8716 or check their website: www.lauderdalehouse.org.uk.
Rachael Weitzman – Recent Paintings. 6-19 November 2020 – “Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways”
Rachael Weitzman’s striking paintings of trees will delight anyone who enjoys looking at nature in a fresh and unusual way, and those familiar with Hampstead Heath and Highgate Woods will recognise individual trees and groups of trees in this powerful exhibition.
When Rachael went to the Heath for the first time, she got lost for three hours. “It was amazing. I completely lost my bearings which I thought was impossible and I loved feeling like I was in an endless wilderness. I discovered a viaduct that I didn’t know existed and two more ponds. I couldn’t believe how stunning the huge old trees were.” She also loves the Highgate Woods area. “There is something really magical about this area of woodland. It’s so unusual, even outside London, to find such ancient trees in non-agricultural land. The people who manage it have done such a fantastic job of maintaining it in an un-spoilt way.”
Now she is translating her experience of the trees and woodland into paint. “I want to convey the things that are so pleasurable to me in the visual experience of walking in the woods. I want to get a sense of the presence of the trees, of what might be described as their personality. I like to try and replicate the fine detail and patterning that you get in nature and contrast it with the bright plain of the sky.”
This show is a series of portraits of trees, mainly from the Heath but also from other London parks. Landscape paintings can be vistas or narratives but these focus in on the trees themselves. The paint forms a lattice of trunks and branches, dappled with light or silhouetted against the sky. They are characterful and strange rather than pretty or picturesque. These trees, grouped or individual are all specific, not generic. “I’m looking at Japanese prints as well as 20th century abstraction. I’m trying to combine these different elements to produce a particular style of my own that conveys a sense of solidity and scale and does justice to the subject.”
Rachael Weitzman has lived in North London for most of her life and went to Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1992. She taught there for a number of years while painting and exhibiting at various galleries and art spaces in London.
For further information please contact rachaelkirkby@yahoo.co.uk
Instagram Rachaelweitzman
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
For detail see:
HIGHGATE WATERCOLOUR GROUP ANNUAL EXHIBTION AT LAUDERDALE HOUSE: 11 November – 7 December. Opening hours 11am-4pm on any day not booked for a private function. Please ring LH to check before visiting: 020 8348 8716 or check their website: www.lauderdalehouse.org.uk.
Rachael Weitzman – Recent Paintings. 6-19 November 2020 – “Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways”
Rachael Weitzman’s striking paintings of trees will delight anyone who enjoys looking at nature in a fresh and unusual way, and those familiar with Hampstead Heath and Highgate Woods will recognise individual trees and groups of trees in this powerful exhibition.
When Rachael went to the Heath for the first time, she got lost for three hours. “It was amazing. I completely lost my bearings which I thought was impossible and I loved feeling like I was in an endless wilderness. I discovered a viaduct that I didn’t know existed and two more ponds. I couldn’t believe how stunning the huge old trees were.” She also loves the Highgate Woods area. “There is something really magical about this area of woodland. It’s so unusual, even outside London, to find such ancient trees in non-agricultural land. The people who manage it have done such a fantastic job of maintaining it in an un-spoilt way.”
Now she is translating her experience of the trees and woodland into paint. “I want to convey the things that are so pleasurable to me in the visual experience of walking in the woods. I want to get a sense of the presence of the trees, of what might be described as their personality. I like to try and replicate the fine detail and patterning that you get in nature and contrast it with the bright plain of the sky.”
This show is a series of portraits of trees, mainly from the Heath but also from other London parks. Landscape paintings can be vistas or narratives but these focus in on the trees themselves. The paint forms a lattice of trunks and branches, dappled with light or silhouetted against the sky. They are characterful and strange rather than pretty or picturesque. These trees, grouped or individual are all specific, not generic. “I’m looking at Japanese prints as well as 20th century abstraction. I’m trying to combine these different elements to produce a particular style of my own that conveys a sense of solidity and scale and does justice to the subject.”
Rachael Weitzman has lived in North London for most of her life and went to Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1992. She taught there for a number of years while painting and exhibiting at various galleries and art spaces in London.
For further information please contact rachaelkirkby@yahoo.co.uk
Instagram Rachaelweitzman
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
For detail see:
HIGHGATE WATERCOLOUR GROUP ANNUAL EXHIBTION AT LAUDERDALE HOUSE: 11 November – 7 December. Opening hours 11am-4pm on any day not booked for a private function. Please ring LH to check before visiting: 020 8348 8716 or check their website: www.lauderdalehouse.org.uk.
Rachael Weitzman – Recent Paintings. 6-19 November 2020 – “Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways”
Rachael Weitzman’s striking paintings of trees will delight anyone who enjoys looking at nature in a fresh and unusual way, and those familiar with Hampstead Heath and Highgate Woods will recognise individual trees and groups of trees in this powerful exhibition.
When Rachael went to the Heath for the first time, she got lost for three hours. “It was amazing. I completely lost my bearings which I thought was impossible and I loved feeling like I was in an endless wilderness. I discovered a viaduct that I didn’t know existed and two more ponds. I couldn’t believe how stunning the huge old trees were.” She also loves the Highgate Woods area. “There is something really magical about this area of woodland. It’s so unusual, even outside London, to find such ancient trees in non-agricultural land. The people who manage it have done such a fantastic job of maintaining it in an un-spoilt way.”
Now she is translating her experience of the trees and woodland into paint. “I want to convey the things that are so pleasurable to me in the visual experience of walking in the woods. I want to get a sense of the presence of the trees, of what might be described as their personality. I like to try and replicate the fine detail and patterning that you get in nature and contrast it with the bright plain of the sky.”
This show is a series of portraits of trees, mainly from the Heath but also from other London parks. Landscape paintings can be vistas or narratives but these focus in on the trees themselves. The paint forms a lattice of trunks and branches, dappled with light or silhouetted against the sky. They are characterful and strange rather than pretty or picturesque. These trees, grouped or individual are all specific, not generic. “I’m looking at Japanese prints as well as 20th century abstraction. I’m trying to combine these different elements to produce a particular style of my own that conveys a sense of solidity and scale and does justice to the subject.”
Rachael Weitzman has lived in North London for most of her life and went to Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1992. She taught there for a number of years while painting and exhibiting at various galleries and art spaces in London.
For further information please contact rachaelkirkby@yahoo.co.uk
Instagram Rachaelweitzman
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
For detail see:
HIGHGATE WATERCOLOUR GROUP ANNUAL EXHIBTION AT LAUDERDALE HOUSE: 11 November – 7 December. Opening hours 11am-4pm on any day not booked for a private function. Please ring LH to check before visiting: 020 8348 8716 or check their website: www.lauderdalehouse.org.uk.
Rachael Weitzman – Recent Paintings. 6-19 November 2020 – “Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways”
Rachael Weitzman’s striking paintings of trees will delight anyone who enjoys looking at nature in a fresh and unusual way, and those familiar with Hampstead Heath and Highgate Woods will recognise individual trees and groups of trees in this powerful exhibition.
When Rachael went to the Heath for the first time, she got lost for three hours. “It was amazing. I completely lost my bearings which I thought was impossible and I loved feeling like I was in an endless wilderness. I discovered a viaduct that I didn’t know existed and two more ponds. I couldn’t believe how stunning the huge old trees were.” She also loves the Highgate Woods area. “There is something really magical about this area of woodland. It’s so unusual, even outside London, to find such ancient trees in non-agricultural land. The people who manage it have done such a fantastic job of maintaining it in an un-spoilt way.”
Now she is translating her experience of the trees and woodland into paint. “I want to convey the things that are so pleasurable to me in the visual experience of walking in the woods. I want to get a sense of the presence of the trees, of what might be described as their personality. I like to try and replicate the fine detail and patterning that you get in nature and contrast it with the bright plain of the sky.”
This show is a series of portraits of trees, mainly from the Heath but also from other London parks. Landscape paintings can be vistas or narratives but these focus in on the trees themselves. The paint forms a lattice of trunks and branches, dappled with light or silhouetted against the sky. They are characterful and strange rather than pretty or picturesque. These trees, grouped or individual are all specific, not generic. “I’m looking at Japanese prints as well as 20th century abstraction. I’m trying to combine these different elements to produce a particular style of my own that conveys a sense of solidity and scale and does justice to the subject.”
Rachael Weitzman has lived in North London for most of her life and went to Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1992. She taught there for a number of years while painting and exhibiting at various galleries and art spaces in London.
For further information please contact rachaelkirkby@yahoo.co.uk
Instagram Rachaelweitzman
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
For detail see:
HIGHGATE WATERCOLOUR GROUP ANNUAL EXHIBTION AT LAUDERDALE HOUSE: 11 November – 7 December. Opening hours 11am-4pm on any day not booked for a private function. Please ring LH to check before visiting: 020 8348 8716 or check their website: www.lauderdalehouse.org.uk.
Rachael Weitzman – Recent Paintings. 6-19 November 2020 – “Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways”
Rachael Weitzman’s striking paintings of trees will delight anyone who enjoys looking at nature in a fresh and unusual way, and those familiar with Hampstead Heath and Highgate Woods will recognise individual trees and groups of trees in this powerful exhibition.
When Rachael went to the Heath for the first time, she got lost for three hours. “It was amazing. I completely lost my bearings which I thought was impossible and I loved feeling like I was in an endless wilderness. I discovered a viaduct that I didn’t know existed and two more ponds. I couldn’t believe how stunning the huge old trees were.” She also loves the Highgate Woods area. “There is something really magical about this area of woodland. It’s so unusual, even outside London, to find such ancient trees in non-agricultural land. The people who manage it have done such a fantastic job of maintaining it in an un-spoilt way.”
Now she is translating her experience of the trees and woodland into paint. “I want to convey the things that are so pleasurable to me in the visual experience of walking in the woods. I want to get a sense of the presence of the trees, of what might be described as their personality. I like to try and replicate the fine detail and patterning that you get in nature and contrast it with the bright plain of the sky.”
This show is a series of portraits of trees, mainly from the Heath but also from other London parks. Landscape paintings can be vistas or narratives but these focus in on the trees themselves. The paint forms a lattice of trunks and branches, dappled with light or silhouetted against the sky. They are characterful and strange rather than pretty or picturesque. These trees, grouped or individual are all specific, not generic. “I’m looking at Japanese prints as well as 20th century abstraction. I’m trying to combine these different elements to produce a particular style of my own that conveys a sense of solidity and scale and does justice to the subject.”
Rachael Weitzman has lived in North London for most of her life and went to Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1992. She taught there for a number of years while painting and exhibiting at various galleries and art spaces in London.
For further information please contact rachaelkirkby@yahoo.co.uk
Instagram Rachaelweitzman
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
HIGHGATE WATERCOLOUR GROUP ANNUAL EXHIBTION AT LAUDERDALE HOUSE: 11 November – 7 December. Opening hours 11am-4pm on any day not booked for a private function. Please ring LH to check before visiting: 020 8348 8716 or check their website: www.lauderdalehouse.org.uk.
John Caird in conversation with the Highgate Society. John is a freelance director and writer of plays, musicals and operas, not to mention being the Society’ s next door neighbour. He has been an associate director at both the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company as well as working all over the world in a great variety of theatrical disciplines. In conversation with Elspeth Clements, he will talk about the current state of theatre and opera and how he and his collaborators have managed to keep rehearsing, performing and creating new work during the current pandemic. Questions from the audience most welcome.
For more information about John’s life and career, go to:
For detail see:
HIGHGATE WATERCOLOUR GROUP ANNUAL EXHIBTION AT LAUDERDALE HOUSE: 11 November – 7 December. Opening hours 11am-4pm on any day not booked for a private function. Please ring LH to check before visiting: 020 8348 8716 or check their website: www.lauderdalehouse.org.uk.
Rachael Weitzman – Recent Paintings. 6-19 November 2020 – “Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways”
Rachael Weitzman’s striking paintings of trees will delight anyone who enjoys looking at nature in a fresh and unusual way, and those familiar with Hampstead Heath and Highgate Woods will recognise individual trees and groups of trees in this powerful exhibition.
When Rachael went to the Heath for the first time, she got lost for three hours. “It was amazing. I completely lost my bearings which I thought was impossible and I loved feeling like I was in an endless wilderness. I discovered a viaduct that I didn’t know existed and two more ponds. I couldn’t believe how stunning the huge old trees were.” She also loves the Highgate Woods area. “There is something really magical about this area of woodland. It’s so unusual, even outside London, to find such ancient trees in non-agricultural land. The people who manage it have done such a fantastic job of maintaining it in an un-spoilt way.”
Now she is translating her experience of the trees and woodland into paint. “I want to convey the things that are so pleasurable to me in the visual experience of walking in the woods. I want to get a sense of the presence of the trees, of what might be described as their personality. I like to try and replicate the fine detail and patterning that you get in nature and contrast it with the bright plain of the sky.”
This show is a series of portraits of trees, mainly from the Heath but also from other London parks. Landscape paintings can be vistas or narratives but these focus in on the trees themselves. The paint forms a lattice of trunks and branches, dappled with light or silhouetted against the sky. They are characterful and strange rather than pretty or picturesque. These trees, grouped or individual are all specific, not generic. “I’m looking at Japanese prints as well as 20th century abstraction. I’m trying to combine these different elements to produce a particular style of my own that conveys a sense of solidity and scale and does justice to the subject.”
Rachael Weitzman has lived in North London for most of her life and went to Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1992. She taught there for a number of years while painting and exhibiting at various galleries and art spaces in London.
For further information please contact rachaelkirkby@yahoo.co.uk
Instagram Rachaelweitzman
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
For detail see:
HIGHGATE WATERCOLOUR GROUP ANNUAL EXHIBTION AT LAUDERDALE HOUSE: 11 November – 7 December. Opening hours 11am-4pm on any day not booked for a private function. Please ring LH to check before visiting: 020 8348 8716 or check their website: www.lauderdalehouse.org.uk.
Rachael Weitzman – Recent Paintings. 6-19 November 2020 – “Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways”
Rachael Weitzman’s striking paintings of trees will delight anyone who enjoys looking at nature in a fresh and unusual way, and those familiar with Hampstead Heath and Highgate Woods will recognise individual trees and groups of trees in this powerful exhibition.
When Rachael went to the Heath for the first time, she got lost for three hours. “It was amazing. I completely lost my bearings which I thought was impossible and I loved feeling like I was in an endless wilderness. I discovered a viaduct that I didn’t know existed and two more ponds. I couldn’t believe how stunning the huge old trees were.” She also loves the Highgate Woods area. “There is something really magical about this area of woodland. It’s so unusual, even outside London, to find such ancient trees in non-agricultural land. The people who manage it have done such a fantastic job of maintaining it in an un-spoilt way.”
Now she is translating her experience of the trees and woodland into paint. “I want to convey the things that are so pleasurable to me in the visual experience of walking in the woods. I want to get a sense of the presence of the trees, of what might be described as their personality. I like to try and replicate the fine detail and patterning that you get in nature and contrast it with the bright plain of the sky.”
This show is a series of portraits of trees, mainly from the Heath but also from other London parks. Landscape paintings can be vistas or narratives but these focus in on the trees themselves. The paint forms a lattice of trunks and branches, dappled with light or silhouetted against the sky. They are characterful and strange rather than pretty or picturesque. These trees, grouped or individual are all specific, not generic. “I’m looking at Japanese prints as well as 20th century abstraction. I’m trying to combine these different elements to produce a particular style of my own that conveys a sense of solidity and scale and does justice to the subject.”
Rachael Weitzman has lived in North London for most of her life and went to Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1992. She taught there for a number of years while painting and exhibiting at various galleries and art spaces in London.
For further information please contact rachaelkirkby@yahoo.co.uk
Instagram Rachaelweitzman
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
For detail see:
HIGHGATE WATERCOLOUR GROUP ANNUAL EXHIBTION AT LAUDERDALE HOUSE: 11 November – 7 December. Opening hours 11am-4pm on any day not booked for a private function. Please ring LH to check before visiting: 020 8348 8716 or check their website: www.lauderdalehouse.org.uk.
Rachael Weitzman – Recent Paintings. 6-19 November 2020 – “Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways”
Rachael Weitzman’s striking paintings of trees will delight anyone who enjoys looking at nature in a fresh and unusual way, and those familiar with Hampstead Heath and Highgate Woods will recognise individual trees and groups of trees in this powerful exhibition.
When Rachael went to the Heath for the first time, she got lost for three hours. “It was amazing. I completely lost my bearings which I thought was impossible and I loved feeling like I was in an endless wilderness. I discovered a viaduct that I didn’t know existed and two more ponds. I couldn’t believe how stunning the huge old trees were.” She also loves the Highgate Woods area. “There is something really magical about this area of woodland. It’s so unusual, even outside London, to find such ancient trees in non-agricultural land. The people who manage it have done such a fantastic job of maintaining it in an un-spoilt way.”
Now she is translating her experience of the trees and woodland into paint. “I want to convey the things that are so pleasurable to me in the visual experience of walking in the woods. I want to get a sense of the presence of the trees, of what might be described as their personality. I like to try and replicate the fine detail and patterning that you get in nature and contrast it with the bright plain of the sky.”
This show is a series of portraits of trees, mainly from the Heath but also from other London parks. Landscape paintings can be vistas or narratives but these focus in on the trees themselves. The paint forms a lattice of trunks and branches, dappled with light or silhouetted against the sky. They are characterful and strange rather than pretty or picturesque. These trees, grouped or individual are all specific, not generic. “I’m looking at Japanese prints as well as 20th century abstraction. I’m trying to combine these different elements to produce a particular style of my own that conveys a sense of solidity and scale and does justice to the subject.”
Rachael Weitzman has lived in North London for most of her life and went to Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1992. She taught there for a number of years while painting and exhibiting at various galleries and art spaces in London.
For further information please contact rachaelkirkby@yahoo.co.uk
Instagram Rachaelweitzman
Highgate Gallery open Tues-Fri 1-5pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Sun 11am-5pm; closed Mon.
HIGHGATE WATERCOLOUR GROUP ANNUAL EXHIBTION AT LAUDERDALE HOUSE: 11 November – 7 December. Opening hours 11am-4pm on any day not booked for a private function. Please ring LH to check before visiting: 020 8348 8716 or check their website: www.lauderdalehouse.org.uk.