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london open studios

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, 3rd and 4th 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.

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FEATURED ARTIST

london open studiosPRISCILLA WATKINS is an oil painter and a printmaker and her subject is swimming. She is a regular at Brockwell Lido where she finds the unique combination of figure, pattern and light in the water allows her to explore the emotional depths of the human experience and make art that both inspires and consoles.

She is fascinated by the pattern of light on the floor of a sunlit swimming pool. The mesmerising beauty of chaos, endlessly looping and repeating. Always the same and yet never the same. Like a poet, she distils that complex visual information down as far as it will go and tries to say more with less. Her art helps you see that it’s the darkness that makes the light brighter and to choose to be in the moment and to live life with joy.

FEATURED ARTIST

london open studiosJORGE SANCHEZ Originally from the Philippines, where he worked as a pharmacist, Jorge Sanchez moved to the UK in 2005. He settled with his partner in Herne Hill, fell in love with the British countryside and started to paint. His inspiration is the natural world. Jorge’s abstract impressionist landscapes – some real, some imagined – combine rich, earthy tones with splashes of bright colour. They evoke the feeling of walking in Britain’s beautiful countryside, particularly Yorkshire and the Scottish Highlands. Jorge is fascinated by colour and texture.

When he starts to paint, he doesn’t always have a clear image in mind. He works intuitively, starting with his chosen colour palette, and 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. Recently he has been working on a series inspired by walks in the woodlands and green spaces of London.

FEATURED ARTIST

london open studiosJENNY SHRAMENKO. is an Australian potter specialising in wheel thrown stoneware which takes its inspiration from the ancient landscapes of the outback and coastal regions of her home country. Her work features washes of warm earth-toned glazes, sometimes with bright flashes of colour, and it is functional decorative and durable.

“I’m an Australian living in London but still with the light and colours of Australia in my bones. I make wheel thrown stoneware bowls inspired by the ancient landscapes Down Under. A recent trip to the East African Rift has introduced me to a new palate of monochromatic volcanic landscapes.”

She started out as a casual potter more than ten years ago, first at Clapham Pottery and then Putney School of Art and Design, dipping in and out of classes and developing her throwing skills and knowledge. She’s now a member of Urban Potters Studio in Camberwell South London.