Featured artist at Skylark 1 and 2: Gill Hickman

Gill Hickman is the featured artist in both Skylark 1 and 2 until Sunday 26 July.

In Skylark 2 Gill is showing "Blue Cells in Conversation", two large canvases in which the textured and embellished cells seem to communicate with each other across the void.

In Skylark 1 another large cell painting, "Happy Cells Just Chillin'", is displayed in the window along with embossed collage prints (Five Chinese Elements & Four Seasons Series, pictured) made by Gill in 2000 and 2001. Gill is now working on new editions of each which now include real gold and silver leaf. You can view the whole sets at www.gillhickman.com.


You can meet the artist on Saturday 18 July and Saturday 25 July at Skylark 2 from 11am to 6pm.

Skylark artists at Brockley Open Studios

Three Skylark artists are taking part in the 17th annual Brockley Open Studios, in "the art capital of south-east London", which runs from Saturday 4 July to Monday 6 July.

The area is rich with artists, partly due to the close proximity of Goldsmith's and Camberwell art schools, so there are lots of great studios within easy walking distance of each other. It's just a ten-minute train journey from London Bridge station.

Carol Edgar (1 Wickham Gardens, SE4) is showing collographs and monoprints (left, Tulips),





Ann Taylor (Flat A, 93 Manor Avenue, SE4) is showing paintings, including large works made for this year's Chelsea Flower Show (right),




and Gill Hickman (45 Sprules Road, SE4) is showing paintings, prints and photographs (left, All Tumble Down, embossed print).

For a full list of the 42 participating artists and further details, visit the Brockley Open Studios website.

Opening hours

Saturday 4 July 2pm-8pm

Sunday 5 July 2pm-8pm

Monday 6 July 5pm-8pm

Getting there

Buses:

Lewisham Way 21, 36, 136, 321

Brockley Cross 171, 172, 484

Adelaide Avenue 122, P4

Brockley Road 122, 171, 172

Trains:
New Cross, New Cross Gate, Brockley, St John's, Lewisham, Ladywell, Crofton Park

Docklands Light Railway:

Deptford Bridge, Lewisham

Developing Cells by Gill Hickman

Happy cells - at first visualised in her body and then subconsciously emerging in the paintings of HIV+ artist and Skylark Galleries director Gill Hickman - are at the heart of her Developing Cells exhibition at the Psychosynthesis & Education Trust, London, until Friday 3 July. The works trace her journey of empowerment, supported by psychosynthesis therapy, homeopathy, meditation, visualisation, t'ai chi, art and positive thinking, and mark 20 years since she was diagnosed.



Where:
Psychosynthesis & Education Trust
92-94 Tooley Street, London
SE1 2TH
020 7939 3991

When:
Show continues until Friday 3 July.

Information:
www.psychosynthesis.edu/
http://www.gillhickman.com/

New shows by Sarah Stokes

There are plenty of opportunities to see the uplifting work of newish Skylark artist Sarah Stokes this summer. Firstly, her work is on show at the newly opened Cristus contemporary art gallery's summer exhibition until 22 August at
39 Sandgate High Street,
Folkestone, Kent
www.cristus-gallery.com
01303 223005



Farther along the coast, Margate's newest commercial gallery is showing some of her work in its Sea Fever exhibition
until 9 July
at 2 Lombard Street
Margate
Kent
www.ingoldsbygallery.co.uk
01843 292779



And Margate's established old town gallery is exhibiting some of her smaller works down at Whitstable's fashionable East Quay market village.
www.oldtowngallery.co.uk
01843 225565

Not to be missed is the Buddha-Creative mind exhibition presented by the Institute of Oriental Philosophy at Taplow Court on the weekend of 13-14 June.
www.iopuk.org


And finally, Sarah has her own open studio with friends that weekend, 13-14 June, in Whitstable and two weekends in July as part of the annual Oyster Festival on 18-19, 25-26 July
www.whitstableoysterfestival.co.uk

It's Belarus for Ruty

Ruty Benjamini, whose ceramic work is on display at Skylark 2, will be showing wall work at Skylark 1 from 23 June to 5 July. A group named "Trails" was created in a ceramic factory in Boleslaviec, Poland, during a ceramic and sculpture symposium in August 2008.




This summer Ruty will spend four weeks near Bobruisk, Belarus. She has been invited to participate in the Art-ZhyZhal VII international plein-air ceramic symposium where she will be creating her work in experimental outdoor firings. We're looking forward to interesting new work!


Illustrated: Ruty Benjamini, Red and Green Trails.

News from Trinidad

The latest news from Skylark artist Trinidad Ball:
"This has been a really good year for me, particularly at the moment. I have a group of paintings showing at Crisolart, a gallery in Barcelona, where I was born and my family live, which is very pleasing, and I am in the middle of my first 'solo' at the Advocate Galleries, Wimbledon Village. This has been a very good experience. It's a very good gallery too work with. It's very professional and proactive and the preview was very well attended and generated some good sales. The show will continue until Monday 25 May. Everyone is welcome."

From the Skylark stand

There's still time to join the thousands of other visitors to the Skylark stand at the Affordable Art Fair, Bristol, where artists Nicolette Carter, Trinidad Ball, Veta Gorner, Eileen Martin, Clare Johnson, Steve Yeates, Gill Hickman, Ruty Benjamini and Jo Hodgen are exhibiting. Here is the scene of these artists' work at the fair, shortly before the crowds descended...








The fair is open until 5pm today.