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Christmas at Town House: Pollocks Toy Museum, see events page

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Pollocks Toy Museum are in the gallery for Christmas with a selection of their Theatres and photos on display. Make your own Pollocks theatre kits, cards and wrapping paper are on sale in the shop too…

Tickets for the performances are available on Eventbrite here: Pollocks performance tickets

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the Chocolate Detective is back with Chantal Coady’s bird eggs that were so popular here last year: hazelnut praline or salted caramel in dark milk chocolate – mixed boxes also available

 

 

We’ll also be selling Rebecca Mays lovely Christmas wreaths here from the beginning of December….

 

So come and have a look, we’re open until 5.30pm on Sunday 22nd December, re-opening Tuesday 7th January 2025. Have a great holiday season!

Submissions invited for Town House Open 2024 deadline April 26th.

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Town House Open 24 call for submissions

 

It’s time for submissions to the Town House Open exhibition again and please tell anyone you know who might be interested in submitting! The deadline is Friday 26th April  CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT

 

It’s open to a wide range of media: paintings, mixed media, drawings, cut paper collage (sorry not photo montage), and original prints (ie works created solely as a print at the outset, not giclées). This year it will be in one exhibition only in July and August and I’m sorry, there is not sufficient space to include photographs.

 

The maximum size is A1 including any frame and although there is no minimum size, very small works (below say 15 x 15cm), are difficult to hang here. Just a reminder too that any work submitted must not have been exhibited before and should have been created within the last twelve months

 

Looking forward to seeing the submissions….

 

Wishful Thinking…..

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The Lockdown Paintings of Nicholas Borden

The video of this exhibition has now been posted on Youtube:

Exhibition at Town House 19th June – 4th July, booking not required to visit the gallery

Nicholas Borden: Arnold Circus, the Boundary Estate

Town House welcomes Nicholas Borden back to the gallery here for an exhibition of his lockdown paintings. He always works from life, taking his easel out with him in rain or shine and he continued to work this way during lockdown, with added views from his windows. So of necessity, many of his subjects in Wishful Thinking were painted locally in East London where he lives – although he did occasionally venture further afield.

This way of working always lends a vibrancy and immediacy to Nicholas’ work that combine to convey a sense of ‘being there’ to the viewer. The works in this exhibition have a particular intensity however, perhaps the result of the circumstances and isolation imposed by lockdown, but also perhaps a response to a more urgent need he felt to record what he saw around him during the pandemic.

What Nicholas recorded in paint was what we all experienced in lockdown: going for a walk, visiting parks and looking at gardens whether from outside or in, the Wishful Thinking of the title for those who had no access to their own outdoor space.

Nicholas Borden’s exhibition ‘Wishful Thinking’ will be on sale at Town House in Fournier Street and on the home page of the website from Saturday 19th June – Sunday 4th July. Please note we will be closed on Mondays and Tuesdays while restrictions remain in force. No booking necessary