Six By Four auction event

I sent two small paintings to the Bristol UWE MA Fine Art Fundraising Exhibition

“SIX BY FOUR”
Secret Postcard Sale

And it looks like I was in good company!

Bird Box Avenue

I have a box in the amazing project Bird Box Avenue from Artillery in North London.

Cloud 8

I will have an exhibition of 8 small paintings at the lovely, sunny
Arts and Crusts cafe in Walthamstow, in East London.
May 4-30th 2012
Private View on May 3rd 7-9.

A very nice article on Walthamstow Times website by Serge Gholem.

Turnaround 11 - the final exhibition of the series

I co-curated Turnaround: 11 exhibitions in 12 weeks (extended to 13 weeks). What a mad thing to do. A new exhibition opened every Saturday with an evening party the following Thursday. This is the last one! April 21st - May 4th The final exhibition is a group of 15 artists: Julie Caves, Helen Porter, Julian Beere, Rachel I'Anson, Anna Alcock, Ellen Jones, Diana Furlong,Timothy Kraemer, Marie-Louise Plum, Anna Bissett, Maureen Morris, Lissa Chapman, Sue Higgins, Katja Rosenberg, Valeria Bateson. I have 2 paintings in the show. There is an even mix of sculpture, photography, printmaking and textile/ornament. It is a really nice show.

A Tribute to Motherhood by Julian Beere. Blanket knit from paper in a cardboard box with an accompanying edition of bookworks that document his series of talks about the sculpture figures on the back of the Waltham Forest Town Hall.

Fool's Gold exhibition Extended!

The Fool's Gold exhibition
at Cultivate has been extended for an extra week!

Now on until April 17th.

Images from Spring at the Smokehouse

Some pictures from the private view evening April 5th 2012 at Forman's Smokehouse Gallery. The four Paintings in the show by Julie Caves. The final picture is outside the gallery showing how close the Olympic stadium is!

SPRING AT THE SMOKEHOUSE

You are enthusiastically invited to Spring!

In the top 5 recommendations for Time Out London’s First Thursday events in April

SPRING AT THE SMOKEHOUSE
50 artists from the UK and beyond welcome the new season with painting, print, photography, moving image and 3D works

Forman's Smokehouse Gallery
Stour Road, Fish Island, E3 2NT

5 April - 6 May 2012
Opening times: Thu-Fri 5-9pm, Sat-Sun 12-5pm and by appointment (07947 175 283)

PRIVATE VIEW: 5 April 6:00pm
*The Spring season will be officially welcomed by Michael Holland, Educational Officer of Chelsea Physic Gardens.
*The jazz singers Ileana di Camillo and Antonio de Lillis will get us into the swing.
*Salmon platters will be served and the restaurant will be open during the private view, bookings recommended.
*The view from the gallery over the Olympic Stadium is not to be missed!

For an on-line catalogue view:
Smokehouse Gallery or www.artcatcher.co.uk

Fool's Gold exhibition

FOOL'S GOLD
Group show

Look for an exciting new yellow painting I will have in this show.

Opening night: Thursday 29th March, 18:00 - 21:00
Then from: Friday 30th - Wednesday 11th April 2012

CULTIVATE is open from 11.30 - 18.00, Thursday to Sunday
(and outside of these days by appointment)

CULTIVATE, VYNER STREET
corner of Vyner Street and Mowlem St, London, E2 9H

Mail Art: E17

Mail Art: E17
I have sent 2 small paintings to Mailart: E17.

They are 2 pieces of a larger painting that was cut into 6 pieces-

This is the whole painting:

This is the painting cut into 6 pieces:

These are the two that I posted to Mailart: E17:

Spring at Forman's Smokehouse

I will have some large paintings in this exhibition:
Spring
April 5th - May 6th 2012

at Forman’s Smokehouse Gallery

Top Five Recommended for April by Time Out London First Thursday's.

Works in Progress:

SKY exhibition

SKY
an exhibition
March 24th - 30th 2012
Julie Caves

Turnaround 7 is part of Turnaround: 11 exhibitions in 12 weeks
A new exhibition opening every Saturday with the Private View the following Thursday

Wood Street Indoor Market
98-100 Wood Street
Walthamstow, London E17 3HX
just 17 minutes on the overground from Liverpool Street Station

Opening Hours: starts Sat. 1-5
window viewing: Mon. & Tue. 10-5
door open: Wed., Thurs., Fri. 10-5
late evening party on Thursday 6-8

Waltham Forest Arts Club
Turnaround is a curation project by Julie Caves, Julian Beere and Helen Porter.

Goodnight Tweetart

#tweetart at Peep! Gallery at Westgate Studio, Wakefield, UK

Bob Milner has organised 6 exhibitions over the next few months - I have sent him a few pieces for them.

In January I sent Goodnight Tweetart - a small acrylic painting on canvas panel, 18x24cm:

In February I sent him 2 acrylic paintings on paper. They are 2 pieces of a larger painting that was cut into 6 pieces:

This is the whole painting:

This is the painting cut into 6 pieces:

These are the two that went to #tweetart

And here they are packed up to go!

'It Is Green' at Cultivate Vyner St

The fourth in the series of exhibitions with colour titles- It is Green opens on the First Thursday March 1st.
It includes works in the colour green and about the environment.

I have a small abstract painting in the show.

Turnaround - 11 exhibitions in 12 weeks

click for a larger view of the poster

TURNAROUND
a series of 11 exhibitions in 12 weeks by members of the Waltham Forest Arts Club in the unusual space of an all windowed kiosk of the Wood Street Indoor Market during February, March and April 2012.

Project website: http://turnaround.yolasite.com

I will also have a week's exhibition of my own work: Turnaround 7 'Sky' - March 24th - 30th.

Turnaround is a curation project by Julie Caves, Julian Beere and Helen Porter.

Turnaround exhibition series

Turnaround is a series of pop-up exhibitions by the members of the Waltham Forest Arts Club in the unusual space of an all windowed kiosk of the Wood Street Indoor Market. We will turn the space into a gallery for 11 week-long shows during February, March and April 2012. Art will include painting, printmaking, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, performance & sound works, textiles, mixed media & crafts, music and poetry.

Project website: http://turnaround.yolasite.com

Turnaround is a curation project by Julie Caves, Julian Beere and Helen Porter.

Love is enough? – art exhibition

This group exhibition organised by Friends of the William Morris Gallery is based on William Morris’s poem of the same name and will be open from Tuesday 7 February till Saturday 3 March at The Mill on Coppermill Lane.

The artists are supporters of The Mill and Friends of the William Morris Gallery. I will have a figurative work in the show.

Free events during the exhibition:

1. Grand “meet the artists” night on 14 February, 6pm-9pm

2. Printmaking workshop on Saturday 18 February, 12pm-4.30pm

3. A discussion with speakers Wednesday 22 February, “Is Love Enough? William Morris and the struggle for a better world”, 6.30pm-8pm.

All events are free for anybody to attend.

Opening hours Tuesday, Wed, Thursday, 10am – 7pm, Friday and Sat 10am – 6pm pm, Sunday 11am - 2pm.

Black at Cultivate Vyner Street

'BLACK'

Opening night: Thursday 2nd February at 18:00 - 21:00

then open from Friday 3rd - Tuesday 14th February 2012

Note: the gallery is shut Mon-Wed unless you make an appointment.

Cultivate Vyner Street

I will have a painting in this exhibition.

"What light through yonder painting breaks?"

The Jerry Saltz Abstract Manifesto, in Twenty Parts

"Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world."

"...contemporary artists have not only begun to re-explore the possibilities of abstraction... Abstraction is breaking free again."

"Abstraction contains multitudes."

Go read this article, it is awesome.

Abstract Painting

"Abstraction, as it turns out, is among the greatest tools invented by human beings to envision the chaos of the universe." - Jerry Saltz

Something Blue

A second blue event for me in the same week- I have 3 paintings in the show Something Blue at Cultivate Vyner St.