Explore your creative neighbourhood.
On the first weekend of October artists and crafts people across the borough of Lambeth will be opening their studio and work spaces to the public. Doors will be open from 10am to 6pm, 5th and 6th October and admission will be free.Dots will be added to our map as artists and makers sign up to this year’s event. Lambeth Open showcases the fantastic range of creative talent tucked away in our borough and is a great way to discover the various art spaces too often hidden in your neighbourhoods.
Visitors will be able to see inside the artist’s studios and exhibition spaces for a unique personal insight into the individual technical processes. Private Views may be held at a number of exhibition spaces, see venues for details.
Explore our art trails:
FEATURED ARTIST
KATE NEWINGTON has been living and working in Brixton as an artist for over 35 years. She is a figurative artist and works in collage, mixed media and acrylic. She has made approximately 40 collage portraits by commission over the years.
Apart from collage portraiture, a big part of her work has been focussed around the rich tradition of still life in this country, with reference particularly to the work of still life artists past and present who have made and make work in the Southwest. Although she lives in Brixton she often visits St Ives and much of her work is influenced by Cornish vistas and the art culture of that area.
As well as showing work locally in South London, she is a member of the Society of Women Artists and shows regularly at Mall Galleries in central London, the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol, with the Bath Society of Artists and more locally at The Lovely Gallery in Sydenham.
FEATURED ARTIST
REB REID SCOTT The diversity of Reb’s practice reflects her wide ranging interests and appetite for growth and exploration. Working across acrylic, pastel, charcoal and embroidery, her work ranges from large, colourful abstract paintings to more muted and intimate drawings of nudes.
Reb’s love of the natural world, fascination with the human form and the way we understand ourselves and present these to eachother is at the heart of her artistic output. Come and look around her flat where there will be a multitude of work for sale. Browsers welcome.
FEATURED ARTIST
JORGE SANCHEZis a self-taught Filipino artist. He worked for over 10 years in Manila as a pharmacist before moving to the UK. Before long he picked up a paintbrush and started creating his own work, reviving the interest he has had in art since his schooldays. Since he started painting about eight years ago he has developed a distinctive abstract/impressionist style.
Jorge has a fascination for colour and texture. He uses a variety of media including household paints, oils, pastels and acrylic, applying them to the canvas with brush, palette knife or fingers. He finds inspiration in the natural world – many of his paintings reflect the joy of walks in London’s green spaces. When he starts to paint, he doesn’t always have an image in mind; but once the brush or palette knife makes contact with the canvas, it moves with its own energy and the image emerges as layer upon layer is applied or scraped away. Painting is his passion!