Winter Show 25th November - 8th December...

Blackheath Arts Society will be trying out a new venue in the heart of Greenwich for our Winter selling exhibition. The Greenwich West Café Gallery is in Lovibond Lane, a short new pedestrianised road created just adjacent to Greenwich Railway Station. As usual a huge variety of work will be displayed across a range of mediums. Come and see work by our talented members and if you are local to the area and enjoy painting you might like to join us...

London by Night - Grace Ainley.

Moon Moth - Lindsey Malin.

View from Greenwich Park - Althea Battams.

Barmaid at the Barley Mow - Terry Scales.

West Greenwich Café Gallery

Lovibond Lane

SE10 8JA

Opens 12noon to 7.30pm, closed on Sundays.

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Cristiana Angelini & Irene Butcher Exhibition 30th October - 2nd December 2017.

I have returned to this exhibition on at West Greenwich Library, a few times now and there is always something new to discover. The exhibition shows a range of work in pastels, drawings and mixed media.

From the mysterious, timeworn detail in the Egyptian pots...

Egyptian Pots - Irene Butcher.

To the quiet intense, drama of the sea...

Breaking Waves Against the Wind - Irene Butcher.

To the joyful Summer and depth of colour in Cristiana's flowers..

The mix of work makes an interesting contrast and encourages you to pause a little longer to take each one in.

Photo courtesy of Kelly Butcher.

The exhibition runs from 30th October to 2nd December 2017 at West Greenwich Library 146 Greenwich High Road, Greenwich SE10 8NN. The artists will be available to tell you a little more about their work and a chance to ask any questions at a 'Meet the Artist Day' on Friday 24th November 3 - 4pm.

Exhibition Opening times;

Monday: 2pm to 7pm

Tuesday: 9am to 5.30pm

Wednesday: Closed

Thursday: 9am to 7pm

Friday: 2pm to 5.30pm

Saturday: 9am to 5pm

Sunday: Closed

Darnley Fine Art, Gordon Scott exhibition 11th - 18th November 2017.

If you missed the recent Abbott and Holder exhibition, Darnley Fine Art Gallery in Chelsea, London is holding a selling exhibition of Gordon's work and would I highly recommend taking this opportunity to visit and see his work. A downloadable catalogue on the site shows a wide range of works; figurative, architectural and street scenes. More information can be found here; http://www.darnleyfineart.com/exhibitions.

Gordon Scott 1914 - 2016, a personal tribute.

I first met Gordon in my first term at Camberwell School of Art in 1946. I was then only 13 years of age. His duties were to teach the Junior Department the history of architecture from the Roman times onward. His first lessons were drawing on a blackboard plans and profiles of various buildings, many from the Gothic period. In later terms he escorted us to view and draw many of the Wren churches in the City. Owing to the flattened spaces caused by the Blitz, our views of Wren edifices were mostly uninterrupted. The City itself was quite silent. In correcting our sketches, Gordon's ability to sum up the structure of a church in a few swift lines greatly impressed his pupils and he became quite popular.

Ten years passed before I met Gordon Scott again. My first teaching engagement at Camberwell was to be his assistant on his drawing classes around the City. Having had the benefit of Gordon's wisdom in my teenage years, I relished the opportunity of working together, since much of what he taught me previously had inspired a life-long interest in architecture and I was now quite knowledgeable.

Throughout our long period as colleagues, as with other staff members, I had never seen any of Gordon's paintings. He did show regularly in the Royal Academy Summer Shows, but many of us despised and refused to visit the Academy. It therefore came as a shock when in 2017 the Abbott and Holder Gallery held a large retrospective of his work. Like many others I was utterly astonished at the brilliance of his paintings. The portraits in particular were very fine and I am emboldened to suggest that all those intense studies of architectural forms strengthened his sense of structure regarding the human form. It is gratifying that his life's work is now being appreciated. I am only sorry it didn't happen in his lifetime.