Tuesday 21 November: Visit to Brixton Village Market

16 artists made their way from Brixton Underground Station to the innermost recesses of Brixton Market and into the colourful arcades known as Brixton Village.   Accordingly, we mostly majored on colour, particularly yellows, although one person achieved a noir interpretation.   Several artists escaped outside and picked out some of the interesting architectural features.   The day was on the chilly side, but there are definitely enough interesting external views to justify a visit in warmer weather.

Luckily for us, Brixton Village was not particularly busy, which suited our sketching, and we were also able to get a table for lunch together, where we enjoyed varying types of Eastern Street Food (I think!). 

Our next meet up will be in January, but meanwhile we await the images from our orchestral sketching day  which will follow shortly.

So here is Brixton Market:

Image above by Alison Gardiner

 Image above by Priscilla Worley

Three images above by Christian Cook

 

Two images above by Vanessa Whinney

Image above by Tricia Sharpe

 Image above by Janet Perkins

Image above by Diane Umemoto

 

Two images above by Gafung Wong

Image above by Sue Lees

Image above by Doreen Burgess

 Image above by Diana Marshall

Image above by Gill Steiner

 Image above by Peter Colley

 Image above by Sue Loder

Two images above by Alison Gardiner

 Image above by Sue Lees

 

 

 

 

 

 

Invitation for a Private View for our exhibition at Highbury Roundhouse

Image above from Daniel Lloyd-Morgan

We have arranged for a Private View of our Art in the Park exhibition at Highbury Roundhouse.

This should be a fun evening with a chance to meet the exhibiting artists and friends. 

This is on the evening of Thursday 30th November from 6:30 to 8:30 in the Roundhouse cafe where the pictures are hung.

Highbury Roundhouse, 71 Ronalds Road, London N5 1XB.

The nearest stations are Highbury and Islington and Drayton Park. There are also buses going along Holloway Road and Blackstock Road. It is possible to park in the neighbouring roads after 6:30pm. The best route by car is from Holloway Road turning into Fieldway Crescent and then navigate up to Ronalds Road. It might be possible for anyone with mobility issues to park adjacent to the venue. Contact me, Janet Payne 07815 772857 if you need to park closer to the venue.

The cafe will be serving refreshments and wine, and as we are not paying for the use of the space please don't hold back on buying a few refreshments!! The exhibition space is courtesy of the Roundhouse, which does need to make ends meet.

Exhibiting Artists are Sue Lees, Christine Khwaja, Audrey Rapier, Janet Payne, Daniel Lloyd-Morgan, Home Phoenix Wong, Priscilla Worley, Chris Baker.

Please do come and bring a friend (or two!) 

An idea of numbers would be helpful, email janetat48ock@hotmail.com

The Main wall

Christine Khwaja's work on an adjacent wall.

Return Visit to the Haydn Chamber Orchestra Saturday November 25th at 2:30

We have the opportunity for a return visit to the Haydn Chamber Orchestra, where we went in April. This is an extra to our usual programme and is on a Saturday.

Many thanks to Alison Glaister for arranging this with the orchestra.

Meet at 2:30 pm on Saturday 25th November at Christchurch Highbury, 155 Highbury Grove N5 1SA. Nearest tubes are Finsbury Park and Highbury or even Arsenal. Plenty of buses on Blackstock Road. Enter the church from the clocktower side. The rehearsal lasts until 5:30pm. There is a tea break.

This is the Haydn Chamber Orchestra's rehearsal for their evening concert which will feature Mozart's  Don Giovanni Overture, Shostakovich's Cello Concerto and Mozart's Jupiter Symphony. The rehearsal is free, but if you want to stay for the evening performance you can buy a ticket.

Last time we all enjoyed ourselves and there was an amazing invited soloist.

Please try and be there on time so as not to disturb the rehearsal. 

Some images from last time:

Sue Lees

Christian Cook

Brixton Market

Meet at 11 am on Tuesday 21 November 2023 outside Brixton Underground station for an outing to Brixton Market, which has reinvented itself as Brixton Village. It is a lively and diverse venue full of small stalls selling exciting merchandise. Not the usual High Street chains.

The market itself is under cover so will be rain proof and a bit warmer than outside! There are plenty of eateries and coffee shops. Bring a sketching stool and a warm jacket.

The market is very old established and Electric Avenue is the adjacent street with its coloured Victorian arches and canopies.

We last visited in April 2019 pre-Covid. Below is a Sue Lees' pic from that outing.

Brixton Market

and a photo

Visit to Gillespie Park, Highbury, on Tuesday 24 October

 A dozen artists held their faith in the weather forecast, despite rain overnight and in the early morning, and arrived at Gillespie Park just as the sun was breaking through the clouds.   We had a glorious morning in one of Islington's immaculate nature reserves followed by a cosy lunch in Fink's cafe round the corner in Gillespie Road.

We were looking for autumn colour, and there was some, but due to the unseasonable warmth during September and October the Gillespie rus in urbe was not a blaze of dazzling reds and oranges.   Most people (but not everyone) tackled the woodlands because there are a lot in the Park, and much of the spirit of the Park resides in the green tree canopy.  The wonderful thing about Gillespie Park is that it appears to be in the depths of the countryside, surrounding buildings and even the Emirates Stadium are out of sight once inside the gates.  A great place to visit to forget about London.  

Enjoy our images!

Our next day out will be Tuesday 21 November when we will be going to Brixton Market, an indoor venue, details to follow.   

Images above by Priscilla Worley

 Image above by Tricia Sharpe

 Image above by Peter Colley

Image above by Avis Dennis

Image above by Janet Perkins

Image above by Diane Umemoto

 Image above by Janet Payne

Image above by Gill Steiner

Two images above by Penny Spelling

 Image above by Diana Marshall

Image above by Sue Lees
 

Gillespie Park, Tuesday 24nd October

Our next outing is to Gillespie Park, 10 Tannington Terrace, Gillespie Rd, London N5 1LE on Tuesday 24th October.

Meet at 11am at the Gillespie Road entrance. Gillespie Park is a public park and Islington's largest open space. The Ecology Centre is in Gillespie Park and is by the Gillespie Road entrance. 

From Gillespie Park's website:

• 2.8 hectare nature reserve which is home to a wealth of wildlife, including 244 species of plants, 94 species of birds and 24 types of butterflies.
• Ponds, woodland and meadow areas. 

There are loos at the Ecology Centre which we can use. However the Ecology Centre is busy on Tuesdays so we can't expect to use any other of their facilities. So fingers crossed for good weather.

We are hoping for some good Autumn colour. 

Bring a packed lunch and a sketching stool. There are cafes on Blackstock Road, but they are a bit of a distance from the park.

The 4, 19 and 236 buses run along Blackstock Road. The nearest undergrounds are Finsbury Park and Arsenal and there is an overground station at Drayton Park.

And some more pics from the "Not The Post Building" outing

Diana Marshall

Do Burgess

The Post Building or rather somewhere else

It was a really nice October Autumn day, perfect for drawing outside, when we set off for the Post Building, which has a roof terrace open to the public. We were at least a dozen artists. The public terrace was closed for maintenance. There was no way of confirming opening times in advance from the website, no email or telephone number and of course there was no advance notification of closure.

Sue and Janet have both emailed Camden Council to protest, as under the Section 106 agreement the terrace is supposed to be open to the public. So, we suspect that closing the terrace with no notice is a ploy to reduce the numbers of visitors so that the developers can tell Camden Council that there are not many visitors and get the Section 106 Agreement renegotiated.

However in the best traditions of Art in the Park we carried on. Some people went to the British Museum, some to Russell Square and some found Pied Bull Yard, where the Cordon Bleu cookery school is. This sells excellent cakes which cheered up some people for missing the public terrace on the Post Building.

The Cordon Bleu cookery school has a very reasonably priced cafe, patronised by student chefs in whites, many smoking furiously outside.

Our next outing is on Tuesday 24 October to Gillespie Park. More details to follow.

Meanwhile we did do some drawing. See below:

Avis Dennis

Diane Umemoto.                               

Gafung Wong

Gill Steiner

Tricia Sharpe

Sue Lees

Sue Loder

Christine Khwaja

Janet Payne

Priscilla Worley