Arttop10 interview with Graham Crowley

Check out Arttop10’s interview with Graham Crowley as he walks round the exhibition, Silent Disco 2023, curated by him and put on for the last two years in his Wickham Market studio. Graham is an eloquent and enthusiastic speaker and it’s inspiring to hear him talk about contemporary artists including Contemporary British Painting Prize winner Lesley Bunch, Sharon Beavan, John Stark, Justin Hibbs, Mindy Lee, Bill Jackson, Georgia Peskett, Tracy Harper - and myself.

Gallery shot: Left, Saint agnes by Sharon Beavan and right, Fall by Stephanie Fawbert

Jacksons Painting Prize new online gallery

Green Lake III, oil on canvas, 50 x 76cm

I’m in Jacksons new online gallery. Check it out at www.gallery.jacksonsart.com

I was shortlisted for the prize in 2022 and am delighted to exhibit with them. You’ll find me under the Artists tab on their homepage. Jacksons have found another way to support artists through this gallery, using the reach of their website and painting prize to reach a wider audience.

I am currently showing five paintings through their gallery.

Silent Disco 2023

I am delighted to be exhibiting in Graham Crowley’s Silent Disco 2023. It opens on Saturday 29th July and runs to the 12th August. There will 35 artists showing at Graham’s studio in Wickham Market, Suffolk and I am really looking forward to meeting some of them on Saturday. A guided tour of the show will be available on ArtTop10 on YouTube shortly, which I am sure will be well worth watching.

Jump, oil on gesso board, 35 x 45cm

Embodied Drawing Workshop

Foot First: using the whole body in the drawing process

I was delighted to invite Kate Sollohub to come to Hastings to run an intensive, experimental, collaborative drawing workshop with members of the South Coast Artists collective (SoCo) in the run up to our exhibition, Drawing Unframed.

Kate works and teaches in an experimental way, incorporaing meditation, movement and yoga into her practice. She works on a large scale and led us through a workshop which did the same, letting go of expectations and enjoying the process.

Through the day, we worked on our own, in pairs and in small groups on large scale drawings which became collaborative journeys into using gesture, breath, meditation and movement in the mark making. It was playful, absorbing and liberating.

Thank-you so much Kate and I hope we can lure you over to Hastings to do another workshop soon.

Work made in pairs