Monday, July 4, 2022

CONVERGENCE: New Work By Peckham Artist ATILA...

 

Convergence is a new collection of paintings by local Peckham artist Atila being shown at the Jeannie Avent Gallery which bring together the artist’s passion for Graffiti and street art with his more classical studio practice. His new series explores inner-city life, with the vibrant form and colours reflecting the chaos, hustle and harmony of the South London streets where he grew up. 

“With my portraits, I try to capture everyday people grabbing a moment’s pause from their hectic lives” said Atila “as well as celebrating figures who inspire me such as the late artist Virgil Abloh, and the musicians Mc Skibadee, Ty, David Bowie, Nina Simone and the heroic workers of the NHS”. 

This collection of work succeeds in merging the high energy of painting on the streets with the more harmonious approach of the studio. 

“My visual language referencing not only artist graffiti on London’s streets” Atila went on to explain “But also from my time spent in Amsterdam, Spain and South America and other artists such as Mode 2, Nash, Belin, Connor Harrington and Toulouse Lautrec to graphic novels and comic books”. 

The key to his work as the fusion of differences, and how the magic is found in the convergence. We love the scale of Atila’s work and were delighted to receive an invitation for his upcoming exhibition and encourage you to go and view the work yourselves locally at the Jeannie Avent Gallery  from 6th until 20th July at 14 Northcross Road, SE22 9EU and Atila can be followed on Instagram atila_8t4




Sunday, June 26, 2022

South London Therapy Group is back in business and getting rave reviews...


 
After closing temporally in Sydenham because of Covid 19. Once vacant the Regents House owners got permission to redevelop the site to make way for luxury flats. However,
SouthLondonTherapyGroup.com (SLTG) has been reborn in Southwark and is getting rave reviews... 

 “It’s the perfect place to practice” Allison told us after her first month “I love the rooms and my clients love the location,  especially after commuting on their way home to all our South London suburbs” 

SLTG is now located in the fashionable Holly Grove Conservation District near Bellenden Road, close to the Peckham Rye transport hub (ZONE 2). Originally in East Dulwich on North Cross Road and in  Sydenham, SLTG accommodated more then 30 therapists, counsellors and trainees who rented space during the day and evenings, ad-hoc or on a regular weekly basis managing their own bookings online, cutting out the middleman with their interference, rules and overhead to enable SLTG to charge only £10 per hour to their members and add great value by providing comfortable rooms to enable their members to truly practice independently. 

"After the long hours of training and working in the city I was determined to take the leap into private practice” Luisa Kos, SLTG’s founder explained “Soon others wanted to share my lovely room and manage their own diary and SLTG was born, all very organic!”


Now having seen the rooms, we agree with Alison that SLTG have managed to create beautiful spaces that are very comfortable, perhaps as nice as the swank New York 5th Avenue psychotherapists offices we all see in the movies and so Dulwich News commend their perseverance in reopening and wish them luck…


Sunday, June 5, 2022

The Sun Shone Brightly and Dulwich Village Looked Great...



The excitement-built this past Thursday, as the the pub and pavement cafes filled up, visitors snapped photos of the Antique Post Trolly and the Post Box. 

 






By 11am, the screeching of rolling luggage along Dulwich Village added to the cacophony of sounds. As the energy built, and guests to Dulwich Hamlet arrived, they looked for their accommodation at the Crown and Greyhound or assorted Airbnbs, which were booked  for the weekend, to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.













Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Bell House hosted more than 30 artists...


Kim Thornton


Bell House hosted more than 30 artists invited to give their view on Green as “Green plays a huge part in our lives, representing nature, renewal and our environment”.


We particularly liked Kim Thornton’s work. Her practice combines the making and photography with wit and humour to disrupt stereotypes and to create surprise narratives.Through the study of domesticity and gender Thornton’s work plays with behavioural expectations and subverts every day tasks to suggest a secret life of make-believe and fantasy. the artwork above features the artist in a faux-fur Stole and head piece made of tampons… 


Kims work draws on memories, anecdotes, observations and experience to explore everyday tasks. Using domestic materials she fashions costumes and transforms objects and uses them to stage unexpected scenes.



Beautiful Japanese Style Miniature Gallery by the artist Kim Shaw



The Dulwich Festival: Push Studios, Lordship Lane SE22

 





the large work above by Kathryn Maple







The Dulwich Festival: Artists Open House 2022


 

The Artist Open House element of the Dulwich Festival is arguably the most popular element of the weeklong events.


Anna Jacobs studied painting at Camberwell College of Arts and interior design and styling at Chelsea College of Arts and Central St Martins. Selling her first painting to her sixth form art teacher in 1985 and since then her work has been bought and commissioned by private collectors across Europe.


Anna is a regular speaker on the use of colour in the home at Ideal Home Show and Grand Designs Live and for several years I taught Colour for Interior Design at Chelsea College of Arts. 




https://annajacobsart.com

The Dulwich Festival 2022...






















The Dulwich Festival  of 2022 has just concluded its 29th season and 2022 festival with the themes of Regeneration and Awakening as the inspiration for this year’s programme as the community comes together again. 40 events will be on offer to the public, many of them free, presenting a diverse programme of art; music; literature; comedy; walks and talks.