Hampshire Open Studios: a date for your diary

This year I’m hosting a shared Hampshire Open Studios with landscape artist Ben Winter. I’m very exciting to be sharing the space with Ben’s work, his paintings are nature based as well, but very different from mine. They are bold, colourful and full of heat.

We’ll be opening the doors at The Old Post Office from Friday 22 August to bank holiday Monday, 25th August.

We’ll have paintings big and small for sale, some prints and we’ll also be selling online on my website if you can’t make it in person. To find more of Ben’s wonderful paintings visit his website here: https://www.benwinterart.com or his Instagram page @benwinterart.

At the show I’ll have new fabric designs, original paintings, as well as prints and of course lots of beautiful tea towels, bags and tablecloths. We may even have cake!

We’ll be hosting a private view on the evening of Thursday 21st so do put the date in your diary and tell us you’re coming. Otherwise, hopefully see you over the bank holiday weekend!

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

The Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition is already open and offering it’s annual delights of paintings, sculpture, architecture and photography.

If you’re going up to London over the next couple of months, remember to pop in to the Royal Academy’s jam-packed Summer Exhibition.

This year the exhibition is been curated by architect Farshid Moussavi, who has woven architecture throughout the exhibition rather than consigning it to one room. I’m delighted that an artist I follow and love, Frances Featherstone has a couple of paintings in the show. Frances paints her subjects in bed from above. Her paintings are cosy intimate and colourful while also being hugely relatable. We all have times we’d like to dive under a clean fluffy duvet and retreat into a book.

The Summer Exhibition is on until 17 August with over 1,700 works on display (all for sale), from famous names to the artist next door.

https://www.francesfeatherstone.co.uk