For Sale
Pavement, Deptford Oil on board 28 x 23cm £450
Man at the Window oil on board 56 x 59.5cm £1250
Trevor Burgess: Paintings of London
Trevor Burgess moved to Hackney in 1999 and was inspired to paint the life that he saw on the street.
I wanted to paint the everyday lives of people in the city at the outset of the 21st century as I was experiencing it. That mix-up of culture, food, ways of dressing, music, languages is so special. I love London’s street markets, and these have been a constant subject for paintings. When I lived in Hackney, it was Ridley Road Market, and now, living in Deptford, it’s the High Street,…
People settle here over generations and find a way to make a life, whether it’s someone like me, a country boy from Yorkshire, or someone from elsewhere on the planet. The physical architecture of London is very distinctive – the endless terraces and suburban streets can be monotonous, but there’s also a mix-up of layers of historical and modern architecture that creates an atmosphere.
Featured in Londonist Top 25 exhibitions to see in October here
Submissions invited for Town House Open 2024 deadline April 26th.
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…..
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
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
Drawing of Belsen concentration camp by Feliks Topolski 1945
