Happy Holidays with Art!

Special Christmas displays are on now at both Skylark galleries - featuring an array of smaller artworks alongside the usual range of work available from all of our artists.

Smaller Artworks for sale at around £100 -295.
Unframed work for sale £50 - £200
Selected by the artists for this festive season.

You cannot afford to miss it.

Plus!
LATE LAST THURSDAY BEFORE XMAS THURSDAY 

18th DECEMBER 6 - 8PM

On the last Thursday before Xmas the 18th December, Skylark 2 will be open till 8pm for last minute gift purchases. Enjoy a glass of wine while you browse our wide selection of original quality artworks to find that perfect unique gift. Gallery Artists will be on hand to talk about their work.

Special 10% reduction on all purchases between 6 - 8pm.

(Skylark 1 Gallery will also be open on request, please come to Skylark 2
first)

seven@W11

Exhibition at north London gallery West Eleven, featuring seven Skylark artists.

EDIT! Change of dates!

Due to gallery double booking the exhibition will be 15-24 December, with only a private view on 20th December (as previously)

Thank you Edinburgh!

A bit belated but we wanted to say thank you to all our visitors and buyers, and Edinburgh in general!, for another lovely visit to Scotland for this year's Edinburgh Art Fair.

Tina Mammoser documented the fair live throughout the week via through her Flickr and Twitter so here are some of her images. 

We hope to see you again next year!

Jenny Wiggins - Greenwich exhibition

If you're in Greenwich, stop by Jenny's lovely exhibition of her works at the McPherson Gallery, just a hop from river near the Cutty Sark pub.

This is an intimate light airy gallery that sets off Jenny's large works perfectly. Although it looks private it isn't - it's just that the room is cold with the door open! Brrr. So don't be shy, just ring the bell and Paul will gladly let you in.

Exhibition on through 13th December.

Mon-Fri 11-6, Sat 10.30-3

Seven @ W11

Skylark Gallery presents

Seven @ W11

Seven artists put on a show that will delight the senses. A delicious selection of paintings and sculpture that accentuate the positive and celebrate the brighter side of life.

Full info here

at

5 Blenheim Crescent Gallery

Notting Hill London W11 2EE

Tel: 0207 928 4005 or 0207 401 9666

Click here for map

December 13th-22nd 2008. Daily 11am to 6pm

Private Views: Saturday December 13th & 20th 6pm to 9pm

Preview Afternoon: Sunday December 14th 2pm to 6pm

Chocolate Tasting:

Thursday December 18th 2pm to 6pm & Friday December 19th 11am to 2pm with Holly Caulfield of Chocoholly

info@skylarkgallery.com

Physalis - Prize Winner at Discerning Eye!

The prestigeous Discerning Eye Exhibition opened on Weds 12th November at The Mall Galleries, with a very special event The Art of Still Life, where our very own Trinidad Ball gave an artist demonstration which was extremely well received.

Trinidad's painting Physalis (see right) selected by Brenda Fenton, Collector, was among many works of art to sell that evening.

The following evening Thursday 13th November was the extremely well attended Private View where John Penrose described the show as "the best ever" and various prizes were awarded. Trinidad was completely shocked and then delighted to win the MEYNELL FENTON PRIZE of £1000, for her entry Physalis.

Gill Hickman's photo Bus Stop is also on display. This was selected by artist Anita Klein.

The Exhibition has received high acclaim and continues till 23rd November. Entry is Free.

Keith at the British Crafts exhibition

Keith Gretton (he's busy this autum!) is showing his artworks at the British Crafts Autumn Exhibition, a great collection of jewellery, textiles, glass, ceramics and more from some of the best designer makers working the UK.

British Crafts Autumn Exhibition
Chiswick Town Hall
Heathfield Terrace, London W4 4JN
28-30 November
Friday 3-7pm, Saturday 11-6pm, Sunday 11-5pm
www.britishcrafts.co.uk

Mark the Date! Edinburgh Art Fair

Skylark is pleased to be exhibiting once again at the Edinburgh Art Fair!

This year the artists include Steve Yeates, Trinidad Ball, Tina Mammoser, Gill Hickman, Clare Johnson, Eileen Martin, Veta Gorner, Jenny Wiggins, and Liz Meier.

Edinburgh Art Fair
Edinburgh Corn Exchange
11 Newmarket Road, Edinburgh, EH14 1RJ
21st to 23rd November 2008
Map here

Sara Sherwood - Skylark 2 Feature

Sara Sherwood is currently the featured artist in Skylark 2 Gallery.
The painting "Power, Times Square" (above) is one of the paintings on show, oil on canvas £975

Christmas Lights at Gabriel's Wharf

Tina at Handm@de, Oxford

Are you in the Oxford area? A group of artists, designers and craftspeople who met online have organised their own event - Handm@de Oxford.

Tina Mammoser is one of the participants and will be showing a range of smaller work, perfect for Christmas presents or just a treat for yourself.

Handm@de
Oxford Town Hall
Sunday 9th November
11-5pm
handmadeoxford.blogspot.com

Keith at the Windsor Art Fair

Keith Gretton will be showing his unique and witty sculptures at this year's Windsor Contemporary Art Fair.

Windsor Contemporary Art Fair
Friday to Sunday, 7-9th November
Royal Windsor Racecourse
www.windsorcontemporaryartfair.co.uk

You can see more of Keith's work all the time at Skylark 1 Gallery Gabriel's Wharf, and on www.myartspace.com

So what are art grads on about?

Image via WikipediaFancy seeing some brand new up and coming artists and finding out what new graduates are working on? The Coin Street Community Builders (who rent out the Gabriels Wharf and OXO Tower shops and studios) are hosting the Kingston University Art, Design & Architecture graduates in two spaces: the OXO Gallery and Bargehouse. As well as exhibiting fashion design, illustration, animation and screen design there will be discussions and events too.

Don't forget to stop in and say hello at Skylark too if you visit!

MA Graduation Show
the.gallery@oxo & Bargehouse
29 October - 2 November
11am-6pm every day, free admission
details at:
www.kingston.ac.uk/design and www.coinstreet.org

Thank you!

Photo from Flickr by TheTruthAbout...

It was another great year at the Affordable Art Fair so we must thank our friendly visitors and customers. Thanks for your continuing support!

Next event: Edinburgh Art Fair

Winter hours

Photograph from Flickr by Kinderash

Where did summer go? We're not sure but the clocks have changed in the UK now so Skylark Galleries are in their winter opening hours:

Skylark 2: no change! Open 11am - 6pm
Skylark 1: Winter hours, now open 12 - 5pm

Competition: Win a Veta Gorner etching

Veta is back from Sweden and busy finishing new work for the upcoming season of art fairs including Affordable Art Fair in London, Amsterdam Art Fair and Edinburgh Art Fair. She has recently started a diary on her web page (www.vetagorner.com) where you can follow her progress and see snippets of new images.

Also on her website : you are invited to participate in Veta's "artist's block" competition.

Veta needs your help! A competition for the best title of a new etching (pictured). The winner of the best title (will be chosen by Veta) will get free entry tickets to the Affordable Art Fair (optional) and an artist proof of the image. A great opportunity to acquire a print from a sought after artist!

The closing day is 19th of October. The winner will be contacted on the 20th of October.

Please log into www.vetagorner.com/competition.html and submit your ideas.

Save the Date! London Affordable Art Fair

We have a limited number of 2 for 1 entry tickets available, please contact the gallery if you'd like one.

info@skylarkgallery.com

Phone 020 7928 4005

Lorenzo's Leaving - 11th October Meet the Artist!

Sad news - Lorenzo Belenguer will be leaving Skylark 2 Gallery.

His last day is 11th of October and he will be having a  meet-the-artists event. Everyone is welcome! That's in Skylark 2 Gallery, OXO Tower, 11th October, open 11am - 6pm. The artists talks will be from 4-5.30pm.

You can see more of Lorenzo's work on his own website: www.lbelenguer.com

Meet the Artist - Tina Mammoser

Meet the Artist!
Tina Mammoser is having a "Meet the Artist" afternoon TODAY at her exhibition

Saturday, 4th October
3.30-6.30pm

(exhibition continues through 16th November)
Dartmouth Arms
7 Dartmouth Road
(a few doors uphill from the Forest Hill rail station)
Forest Hill, SE23 3HN
020 8488 3117
www.thedartmoutharms.com
Google map: http://tinyurl.com/4y2kvn
Organised by www.artdoglondon.co.uk

This is a unique chance to see the coast paintings this autumn!
(I will only be showing my 5" horizon paintings at the Affordable Art Fair)

Artist websites feature: Nicolette Carter

Did you know that many of our artists also have their own websites? Since Skylark Galleries is a collectively run pair of galleries we work together to promote both the galleries and the artists themselves too!

If an artist has their own website the link will appear on their profile page from the Skylark Galleries website. It's a great way to see a lot more work from your favourite artist!

Nicolette Carter
www.nicolettecarter.com

Nicolette has a website featuring the full range of her lyrical story-like paintings. From her website: "My current work is influenced by Mughal painting. I am interested in the patterns and rhythms found in nature and architecture and how repetition and variation of themes can create lyrical and narrative properties. I have been told that my work has a dreamlike, other worldly quality."

The Discerning Eye

Some of our Skylark artists have been juried into the very prestigious ING Discerning Eye exhibition.

Congratulations Trinidad Ball and Gill Hickman!

The exhibition:
ING Discerning Eye
The Mall Galleries
The Mall, London SW1
13th to 23rd November 2008
Admission Free

Late Last Thursday - with Helen Bolger

"SHADOWS" by Helen Bolger
To coincide with her exhibition "Shadows", Artist Helen Bolger will give a brief talk about how her background working as a therapist in London led her to develop these artworks. Helen says 'what we choose to add or leave out in a work of art conveys a message'. Her paintings and sculptures are about personal space and isolation, even in the middle of a crowd.

Thursday 25th September 2008
6.30pm
Skylark 2 Gallery: Unit 1.09, Oxo Tower Wharf, (first floor riverside) Barge House St SE1 9PH
020 7401 9666
Nearest Tube: Waterloo/ Blackfriars.
ENTRY FREE

The exhibition continues until Sept 28th. Tues - Sun 11-6

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Don't Forget!

Skylark Galleries event this Friday as part of Open Rehearsal.

Skylark Galleries will be hosting "The Spirit of the Southbank" with a free event

Friday 26th September (6-8pm)
Skylark 2 Gallery 1st fl OXO Tower
Come and join the artists at Skylark Galleries, hear them share their personal stories of empowerment and discuss the ideas and inspirations behind their most recent work.
Including Gill Hickman, Kathleen Dutton and Steve Yeates

More about Open Rehearsal in our previous announcement here.

Commissions by Sara Sherwood

Sara Sherwood finished a commission for a London home. Art that celebrates living in the city.

"I used muted colours to fit with the neutral colour palette of the clients home and included her their favourite buildings in the city. Playing with the shapes of the buildings I mixed dolphin curves with buildings and reflections with an underwater world. The abstract is called hope, I let this speak for itself. Completed and installed in August 2008. Am now painting on location in Cyprus and am working on 2 cityscapes for a private collector in New York."

To see more please go to www.sarasherwood.co.uk

Birmingham Art Fair

Trinidad Ball is exhibiting at the Birmingham Art Fair from 18-21 September 08 with the Purple Gallery, Birmingham. Best of luck Trinidad!

If you'd like to attend the fair please contact the Purple Gallery, here's their online newsletter.

Spanish Artists in London

News from Trinidad Ball:
(please click the image for larger version)

Yorkshire coasting

Tina Mammoser is spending this week on the next leg of her English Coast journey - cycling the Yorkshire coast from Scarborough to Hull. You can follow her journey on this site here, and check her website for the paintings from the trip over the next few month.

Sorry for the interruption

Photo by grapfruitmoon

Sorry for the lack of blog posts and especially the downtime on our website last week. The website is back up and running! Thanks for your patience.

Clare Johnson at Centre Point

10 of Clare Johnson's new works are on show in Centre Point.
Arrange through Antonia to come and see the work and visit this iconic building.

Also this weekend Clare Johnson will be exhibiting her collographs in Norfolk, at the Green Peace fair. 11 - midnight, Hulver farm, St Michael, South Elmham, btw Bungay and Halesworth. Visit the web site for more info:www.waveneygreenpeace.org.uk

This is the first time there has been an Art tent here and many of the regions most famous names will be exhibiting.

Wilf in the Window!

William Frost (also known as Wilf) is showing a whole new body of work
in the windows of Skylark 1 right now! He's the featured artist until Sunday 7th Sept.
He stayed up to the early hours of the morning trying to get
all the paintings finished so do stop by and see them.

Killing Time, by Kate Pelligrini

Back in April, Kate Pellegrini gave a talk about ‘Painting Space’ from the Killing Time Series. This was part of our regular Late Last Thursday event where Skylark invites the public to visit the gallery after-hours and find out a bit more about our artists.

The 'Killing Time' series, pictured here, is based on Simon Armitage's brilliant poem of the same title, commissioned by the Millennium Committee. The thousand line poem is divided into sections, which explore different aspects of man's relationship with his fellow man, and the state of civilisation at the beginning of the 21st Century. Each section of the poem revolves around a specific theme for example bullets of the Colombine School massacre transferred to flowers (‘Suburban Idyll’), the lunar eclipse of the sun (‘Any Minute Now’). The poem provided the springboard for Kate’s painterly investigations. The paintings are door sized stretched canvases, unframed, featuring impasto oil paint on a thin acrylic base.

Please join us for Late Last Thursdays
The last Thursday of every month
6-8pm
Skylark 2 Gallery
Unit 1.09, Oxo Tower Wharf, SE1 9PH
(First Floor Riverside up the stairs)
Tel 020 7401 9666
www.skylarkgalleries.com

Spirit of the Southbank for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad

Skylark Gallery is delighted to be partners in this years Open Rehearsal as part of the build up to the 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

Open Rehearsal gives audiences a unique opportunity to get behind the scenes and experience how London's world-class creative and cultural organisations create everything from performing arts to fashion, from art and film to museum collections.

This pan-London season, a Mayor of London’s initiative, is in its 4th year and forms the core London element marking the launch of the Cultural Olympiad, the 4-year cultural programme running until London 2012.

Open Rehearsal takes place across London's 33 boroughs from 26th-28th September

Skylark Galleries will be hosting THE SPIRIT OF ART ON THE SOUTHBANK with a FREE ARTISTS' EVENT

Friday 26th September (6-8pm)
Skylark 2 Gallery 1st fl OXO Tower
Come and join the artists at Skylark Galleries, hear them share their personal stories of empowerment and discuss the ideas and inspirations behind their most recent work.
Including Gill Hickman, Kathleen Dutton and Steve Yeates

• Gill Hickman believes art & particularly the "happy cells" she's been visualising for years have kept her well without medication for 20 years after HIV diagnosis
  
  
• Kathleen Dutton Artist and Illustrator talks about her recent advertising commission for an environmental awareness campaign in Italy and her work with social enterprise.
  
  
• Steve Yeates Empowering the self and surviving cancer through art. A personal account of Steve's experiences and processes. (A donation made to Cancer Research UK with every sale)

Skylark 2 Gallery • Unit 1.09 • Oxo Tower Wharf • SE1 9PH
(First Floor Riverside up the stairs) Tel 0207 401 9666

www.skylarkgallery.com

For more information please go to www.openrehearsal.co.uk

Images above, left to right: Healing Earth - Give and Take, by Kathleen Dutton Energy Cells, by Gill Hickman Empowering, by Steve Yeates

Wilf is working hard!

News from Wilf:

At the moment I am trying to convert my large shed into an artist’s studio. This task will include putting in double glazed windows and insulated walls, installing a skylight in the roof and putting in electricity. I will keep the blog posted with the latest developments.

Thanks
Wilf x

We hope you'll share some photos when it's done!

Cork Street success

Tina Mammoser is pleased to share news of her success at the 1st Annual Cork Street Open Exhibition for charity. Held at The Gallery on Cork Street Tina's painting "Night Beyond the Ice", from her Lake Michigan series, was chosen for the exhibition by this year's selection committee Eddie Chambers, John Hurt, John Bird and Peter Suchin. The painting was sold by the end of the exhibition.



Tina's work can currently be seen both at Skylark 1 Gallery and at the "Coastlines" group exhibition at The Gallery, Masham (North Yorkshire) until the end of August.

Welcome: Jane Skinner

New artist!

Jane Skinner and her quirky photo artworks are joining Skylark 2 gallery at the end of August.

Welcome Jane!