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Eleanor Crow Falling Light

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Falling Light exhibition Eleanor Crow at Town House Spitalfields

ELEANOR CROW

Falling Light

5 Fournier Street, Spitalfields, London, E1 6QE

21 June–6 July 2025

An exhibition of 38 new interior and still life oil paintings by Eleanor Crow

Many of these paintings are made in kitchens – the hub and heart of the house, café or restaurant, and the most repeatedly visited space. Kitchens are often a repository of things collected throughout life and contain things that have been handed down, creating an ongoing history, or a story. Once these spaces were hidden away; now we want to be in them, to see what is happening there. Kitchens are like a theatre, the objects in them the props; a kitchen lays open the skill, labour and love necessary to the alchemy of raw ingredients being transmuted into food.

The ongoing activity of domestic life means that items are constantly moved or replaced, while the light shifts and changes as Eleanor paints, so that nothing is ever quite fixed. She seeks to paint those unrepeatable moments of light falling in a particular way, over particular things, in a particular place…

http://www.eleanorcrow.org/

Instagram: @e.crow.studio

Twitter: @ECrow_Painting

Come and meet Eleanor and have a glass of wine on the opening day of the exhibition, Saturday 21st June.

 

 

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