Friday 26 September 2008

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."

Wednesday 24 September 2008

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

Monday 22 September 2008

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

Saturday 20 September 2008

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.

Monday 15 September 2008

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

Friday 12 September 2008

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.

Tuesday 9 September 2008

Monday 8 September 2008

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.


Saturday 6 September 2008

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.

Monday 1 September 2008

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