Crooms Hill from Circus Street

 I've always found the Victorian and Edwardian architecture of Greenwich (London) fascinating. What appealed to me here was the collection of building shapes and colours contrasting with the old 'rustic' wall and gate. When a painting is bought by the homeowner, as this one was, it always feels right like the painting is 'going home'!

Crooms Hill from Circus Street.

More random rummaging through the archives...

 

Tilly (Natalie) Dower was a fellow student back in the 1940s.

Ralph Nuttall-Smith was a fellow tutor at Camberwell in the late 1950s / early 1960s.  

'Kitchen Scene' - one of only 2 litho prints I ever did!

Landscape by junior student Joan Van Crugton 1948/9. How did I get this painting that won a landscape prize? I've no idea! 

Sketch for 'Holy Joe'

Cows 1950

Cousin Audrey

From Ambrose Street (pre-fab) garden 1950 with Peek Freans clock tower in the distance. 

Good Morning Waterloo

 It's always interesting to take close up's of the detail in paintings, like having whole new paintings! This painting, just sold, is entitled Good Morning Waterloo and was painted from a vantage point in a stairwell in an office building at Waterloo. 

Reflections...

 It was lovely to get an email a few years back from the daughter of a very talented local artist, Rosalind Pope a long-term stalwart of the Bexley Art Group in the 1970's - 1990's. Rosalind painted beautiful delicate watercolours as you can see below...

Poppies by Rosalind Pope

Though Rosalind specialised in watercolours she particularly liked and purchased this oil painting entitled 'Reflections by Candlelight' I made in the 1980's. I was so glad to learn that it gave her so much pleasure over many years.

Reflections by Candlelight.

Silent City, Canary Wharf.

How fast time flies... this painting of Canary Wharf was painted in the early 2000's, at the time it seemed like a very dramatic skyline.

Silent City, Canary Wharf. Sold.

Now in 2022 it seems many of the gaps are filled in!

Camberwell Teachers and Students - A Personal Selection

 Belgraves St Ives gallery, Cornwall is hosting...

CAMBERWELL Teachers and Students - a Personal Selection

19th February to 14th March 2022

A selection of paintings by students and teachers at Camberwell School of Art. Includes works by Adrian Berg, Christopher Chamberlain, John Charles Clark, Peter Clossick, Mario Dubsky, Tom Espley, Antony Eyton, Maurice Feild, Terry Frost. Anthony Fry, Graham Giles, Keith Grant, Julie Held, Francis Hoyland, Henry Inlander, Dick Lee, Ben Levene, Anna Lovely, Sargy Mann, Felicity Mara, Philip Mathews, Robert Medley, Alice Mumford, Bernard Myers, Victor Pasmore, George Rowlett, Elliot Seabrooke, Terry Scales, Sarah Spackman, Michael Strang, Arnold van Praag and Keith Vaughan.

CAMBERWELL Teachers and Students - a Personal Selection - Exhibitions - Belgrave St Ives

Cat on a Tin Roof, oil on canvas, 263mm (w) x 215mm (h) £250. SOLD

The catalogue...

Camberwell School of Art: Teachers and Students - a Selection by Belgrave St Ives - Issuu

Happy New Year 2022

 Wishing You All a Peaceful, Healthy and Brighter 2022 

Let us hope that we will all be able to go out in a more relaxed way and enjoy each others company again soon.

Last Orders at The Barley Mow, Oil on panel 1988 (sold)

In the 1980's the Barley Mow was a thriving local pub in Greenwich with a welcoming atmosphere. Every time the door opened at the weekend the sounds of a piano player, old time tunes and raucous singing drifted out. Sadly the pub closed but the building is now open as a Mediterranean restaurant called The Hill.

There is an interesting website that records 'lost pubs' here;

 Barley Mow, Blackheath (closedpubs.co.uk)