Blackheath Art Society Winter Exhibition

 

Mist on the Tavy featured on the Blackheath Art Society Instagram 

Blackheath Art Society Winter Exhibition 2025

 The long awaited Blackheath Art Society Winter Exhibition is just about to start! It runs from 6th November to 18th December at the beautifully restored Blackheath Halls in London and it's free. Here you will find a feast for you eyes with artworks in many different styles and subjects. If you are looking for a unique Christmas gift and wish to browse in a relaxed atmosphere, look no further! To find out more please visit the Blackheath Halls website here .

This year my two entries are;

Cavalry Trumpeter. This painting was part of a collection entitled 'Farewell to Woolwich'. In 2014 The Royal Artillery Band left Woolwich after 250 years and this group of paintings were made from on the spot sketches of the farewell parade. For further information on this please click here Marking an Historic Occasion.

Cavalry Trumpeter (framed) oil on board, H 28.8 x W 29.5 £800

Mist on the Tavy. The river Tavy is in Devon a county I have a long standing love affair with, having been evacuated to Seaton as a child during the Second World War.

Mist on the Tavy, oil on board, L 31 x W 41 £350

We very much hope that you enjoy this exhibition.

Reprint of 'To Seaton With Love'

 In the 1980's I wrote a booklet 'To Seaton With Love, Memoirs of an Evacuee 1940 - 1945'. The booklet describes what it was like to arrive in Devon as a child and have 5 carefree years growing up in the beautiful town of Seaton in Devon. Ted Gosling, the Museum Curator for many years, who sadly has only recently departed, was a great encouragement to write up my escapades and memories from this time. This little booklet has just recently been reprinted and is for sale at the Museum with all proceeds going to the Axe Valley Heritage Museum. If you would like a copy please contact the Axe Valley Heritage Museum 

Terry at the Cricket Ground, Seaton with John Shore in the background 1941/2.

Sketchbook Notes

 Over the years I have built up many sketchbooks, they are a valuable source of information for completed works. They act as a memory aid, sometimes an accurate painting follows from the sketch and other times parts are used from different sketches with a bit of poetic licence thrown in! Going through these sketchbooks with my daughter I thought it would make an interesting post to see a few before and after's...

The Barley Mow Pub in Greenwich - sold.

Digby Fairweather Band at The Festival Hall, London.

Dockers Shelter, Redriffe Road, Bermondsey, London. 1970.

Clock, Stool and Fireplace (neat version!).

Do-It-Yourself.

Under Hungerford Bridge 1992.

Java Wharf - sold

Timer Going Overside, Surrey Docks, 1982

The Welders at Pipers Wharf - sold.

Going through the sketchbook 2025.

Sidney Jacob Scales

 My father Sidney Jacob Scales, was a stevedore who worked in the Royal Albert Docks all his life. Both the journey to work through the Blackwall Tunnel every day and the work itself was hard. I drew these sketches between the late 1940's and 50's when my father came home from work exhausted. It was a tough life as these sketches show but his exhaustion meant he was the perfect model for his teenage son at Camberwell School of Art! Now looking back they seem to speak volumes...