Townhouse Spitalfields

Part II Original Prints, Mixed Media and Watercolours 31st August – 22nd September

The Ceramics and Sculpture will be on show throughout.

It’s always an exciting moment as we get ready for the exhibition: around one hundred artists coming together here to show their work. There is no specific theme again and so there is a wide variety of both subjects and styles by artists who have exhibited at Town House in previous years and many who are new to the Open. And many of the artists will be in the gallery over the course of the exhibition, especially at the weekends, so come and meet them…

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Part I Paintings 6th – 28th July

Doreen Fletcher returns for her fifth exhibition at Town House with east a collection of new work …… Since her first exhibition Lost Time opened here in June 2016 Doreen has been our most popular artist and her exhibitions here are eagerly anticipated.

Once Upon a Time paintings by Chris Thompson 4th – 19th November

Paintings of London and beyond stretching into the realms of fairy tales. All with a magical quality that invite story telling.

Chris took a change of direction during the pandemic and this is his second exhibition at Town House since then. As in his first, there are scenes of London that evoke the timeless beauty of Algernon Newton’s work with their use of light. The sole house, The Painter’s House, in that first exhibition has now become a series of houses, some real and some inspired by fiction or fable.

Chris imbues each of his houses with its own character, as though a person. Set in dreamlike surroundings, Chris draws us in and invites us to imagine what’s going on in these stories told in paint, each beginning Once Upon a Time…

Everyday: those places we inhabit or the things we handle daily. Whether it is sinks, kitchens, pots or pans, all are things or places with a quiet beauty that goes beyond their ordinary use.

The places and details depicted in this exhibition include some well-known locations in London, such as Scotti’s Snack Bar on Clerkenwell Green or the Quality Chop House in Farringdon; others are in Cornwall, Wales and the Lake District.

Whether the subjects are familiar cafés, restaurants or private homes, the owners make their presence felt by those things they use every day…

This work continues Eleanor’s interest in the play of light across the interiors of cafés and domestic settings. These are mostly unpeopled spaces, although sometimes a figure is quietly absorbed in their work and all are objects and places for everyday, perhaps mundane, but always quietly beautiful.

Eleanor Crow is an artist who has exhibited widely, and whose book of watercolours Shopfronts of London was published by Spitalfields Life Books with Batsford Books in 2019.