Dockers Shelter, Redriff Road, Bermondsey

 More rummaging through my archives I came across this photo of an early painting... I was amazed to see that the Dockers Shelter at Redriff Road in Bermondsey still exists today. In the 1950s and 60's when I worked in Surrey Docks crowds of dockers filled the road waiting for the timber ships to come in and at lunchtime a van with a hatch served tea. I must have painted this early morning as it's very quiet! The painting has a slight feel of doom about it, the dockers awaiting their fate, a whole world about to change drastically and irrevocably. 

The shelter as it is today with a colourful mural painted along the back.

For more information about this shelter and the mural click here.

Exciting News...

 The Blackheath Art Society will be back at the newly restored Blackheath Halls for it's winter exhibition. The team at BAS work exceptionally hard to make this a success. For a casual browse of top quality work, for a unique Christmas present, for a lockdown gift to yourself (because you are worth it!) please do put the dates in your diary Wednesday 17th November until Monday 3rd January 2022. More info to follow...  

Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts Post War Life as a Student!

 Please see my new section here...

Photo courtesy of Joyce Arimatsu (nee Westwood) top left on the steps of Camberwell School of Arts.

Peter Collis

Back in the 1940's Peter Collis was a friend and fellow student in the Juniors Department Camberwell School of Arts. I greatly admired his work and thought he was really talented. Recently I came across a folder with some of his sketches mixed in. I tried to find out what happened to him but search results reveal a more well known Peter Collis, but not this Peter Collis who went on to the Slade from Camberwell. Last time I saw him he had the opportunity to visit Africa with a friend from the Slade. 

Here's a little nod to Peter....we often used our fellow students as subject matter...

Books for Sale

 

"Visions of Greenwich Reach" by Terry Scales

A revealing insight into twenty of the artist's major river paintings, with extracts from his Thames Diaries.

42 pages, 30x21cm 

£10.95 + P&P (UK postage and packing is £3.50)

Please contact the artist if you would like to buy a copy of this book, or if you would like more information about it.

Prints For Sale

The following paintings are available as giclée prints in a range of sizes:

Size	Price
Postcard size (15x10cm)	£2.50
A5	£5.00
A4	£10.00
A3	£20.00

UK postage will be £2 - £8 depending on the sizes chosen.

Please Contact the artist to buy prints, or if you would like more information about these.

Bridge over the Surrey Canal:

Coasters at Deptford Creek:

Convoys from Wood Wharf:

East Greenwich Waterfront with Tug and Small Craft:

Greenwich Peninsula:

Hungerford Bridge:

King George V Dock:

Red Tug passing St Pauls:

St Pauls from Bankside:

Steel for Canary Wharf from Lovells Quay:

Timber Going Overside:

Tower Bridge from Cherry Garden Pier:

Blackheath Art Society Online Exhibition 22nd February - 22nd April

Our first online exhibition is an ideal opportunity to view and buy work from Blackheath Art Society members. One of the reasons our exhibitions are so anticipated is the consistently high level of talent and exciting variety of style and subject. We greatly miss being able to show works in a physical gallery but this exhibition has the advantage that you can relax at home, enjoy a cool glass of wine or a cosy cuppa and browse through our easy to scroll gallery of work. A work of art is something that can be a gift to others or a gift to yourself. While we spend more time at home it is something lasting and unique that you can cherish and enjoy every day.  

Blackheath Art Society 2021 Online Art Exhibition 

A Room of One's Own - L J McLeod