DOUBLE TAKE - part one
A two part exhibition @ Sprout Arts
29th June - 10th July 2021
illustrations, graphic design, calligraphy and typography
Open every day 11am - 5pm
20 Artists exhibiting under one roof!
Karolina Jonc Buczek * Julia Court * Susan Derbyshire
Harri Fredman * Monika Koch * Madeline Meckiffe
Jacqueline Merry-Bernard
* Glenn Mottershead * Steve Owen
Olivia Rawnsley * Andrea Robinson * Marta Rusin
Scene in London * Peter Solari * Maria Storey
Lynn & Iain Selwyn Reeves - Furzedown Art Studio
Valerie Taylor * Barrie Temple * Simone Toor
Originally conceived last year in celebration of Sprout’s 10 year Anniversary, one year later the first exhibition will focus on Graphics, Illustration, Printmaking and Photography, introducing new faces as well as familiar ones. This will be followed by an exhibition of work by local Fine Artists, a rich mixture of styles and approaches carefully selected to represent the best talent in the SW London area. Why wait for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition? Here's something to keep you going.
There should be something to suit everyone and to suit every pocket. We are fortunate indeed to have such a wealth of talent on our doorstep.
13th to 24th July 2021 - fine art paintings, photography and textiles
Karolina Jonc Buczek
Karolina Jonc Buczek is a Polish illustrator and graphic designer based in South London. In her practice, she mostly works with themes of body positivity, mental health and Polish culture.
She is passionate about promoting different body types, women empowerment and feminist agenda, and raising awareness of mental health issues through her personal experiences. Whilst tackling serious subjects, she works with bright colours and often uses humour in her illustrations.
Karolina’s aesthetic is inspired by 90’s/00’s cartoons and mainstream fantasy.
Julia Court
Julia Court’s work is concerned with human aspiration and how this reflects in our behaviour, personal habits and daily rituals. She observes people, their possessions, their gestures and the way they dress.
Whether drawing from life, photographing the everyday, or collecting life’s debris and detritus, the imagery and objects surface in drawings, prints and assemblages. The content selected, refined and distilled, produces work with a quiet but sophisticated aesthetic.
Court’s drawing ‘Henderson and Salah LFC’ is a work in progress, as she starts to apply her raw drawing style, capturing the high emotions of football icons as they celebrate a goal.
Her assemblages ‘Studio Box Collages’ created during ‘lockdown’ when she turned to the source material surrounding her in her studio, reflects the opportunity to indulge in “child’s play” with inexpensive materials; and because of space constraints each assemblage is housed in a box which can be conveniently stored on a shelf when not on display.
Court graduated from City & Guilds of London Art School in 2016 with an MA in Fine Art and her work has been in a series of mixed shows including ‘The Invitational’ at Unit 1 Gallery, ‘The Graduate Show’ at Collyer Bristow, and the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.
Susan Derbyshire
Susan works in a range of media. Until July 2019 she taught art and design at Ealing and West London F.E College. In 2012 she completed a Masters Degree in Print and 3 Dimensional Design at UCA. Farnham Surrey She has continued to explore and develop the body of work she created at that time. Her work is steeped in the importance of nature and memory, capturing the transient essence of time passing. Linking the rhythm of breathing , inhaling and exhaling slowly to create spaces of reflection and mindfulness within the viewer.
Before the pandemic she exhibited her work throughout the UK and regularly participated in Wandsworth Open House.
Harri Fredman
I studied at Wimbledon and Bath Colleges of Art, graduating in 1990. More recently I have also studied silversmithing and stained glass at South Thames College, and screen printing at Putney Art School. I work in many different mediums, making sculpture, jewellery, prints and cut-outs.
The two screen prints in Double Tae, ‘Corvid’ and ‘Parakeet’ are part of a series which has evolved from lockdown walks over the past year, reconnecting with nature, enjoying seeing all of the different wildlife to be found on Tooting Common.
Monika Koch
Monika Koch is a mixed media self-taught Polish artist.
She is mostly known as “monneeshka” for her female portraits and figures.
Monika is deeply dawn to feminine beauty so the female face is her muse.
She loves working with ink, gouache, acrylics and gold leaves. She explores her art with simple brush lines and strokes , block colours and patterns .
Madeline Meckiffe
About 7 years ago I decided to explore screenprinting and illustration for myself. Working mostly in publishing as an independent designer/illustrator, having to answer a brief and create artwork for a client is quite a restrictive process in which you are constantly second guessing what someone else wants/requires. To be able to make my own artwork and play with it is such a freeing, fun and satisfying process, and I’m still learning and finding things out on the journey.
Jacqueline Merry-Bernard
Once an Art Therapist always an Art Therapist; this has been useful to remember during the pandemic. I started collating words and phrases used by the media and hearing how language evolved to express our experiences and I wanted to include this in my art works.
I hope that my pastels are a true reflection of the claustrophobia behind masks and walls during these past winter months and that now I can open up and do more colourful and spacious paintings.
Glenn Mottershead
About Glenn and Kerbopolis
Glenn is a socially inspired filmmaker and photographer, merging his technical, creative and academic skills to bring a series of abstract urbanism in the form of fine art photography.
Enriched with his Masters degree in Photography and Urban Cultures, Goldsmiths University of London, Glenn in a similar spirit to a flaneur observes the city and reacts with imaginative flare. Glenn’s desired narrative approach is in the form of art based photography printed on exceptional high quality archive paper and inks.
His work is inspired by the then head of the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR). The Goldsmiths Professor, Caroline Knowles, requested some abstract photography for her walls at home, this has led to the Kerbopolis journey.
For almost ten years Glenn has been crafting these abstract pieces that are inspired by Dali, LS Lowry, Edward Hopper, Charles Dickens, Massive Attack, and John Steinbeck.
With an established range of his dense details and muted colours in his work, including Gabled Galleon, Peep Over and Tangled Thames, each piece aims to evoke a form of edgy exploration and investigation.
Each piece is formed of many photographs and offers various routes for your imagination to journey through the city of Kerbopolis, where you are the guardian and planner of the place.
Scene in London
London location prints by Scene in London.
Samantha Warren is the local artist behind Scene in London. Born and raised in Tooting and having studied art at Graveney School, Samantha made a career designing art for global fashion brands to use on their printed fabrics. With a love of art and the community, Samantha launched Scene in London to connect two of her passions.
Each artwork combines hand drawing with computer-aided design.
Steve Owen
Two of the prints on display are monotypes and the third is a linocut. Monotypes are a printmaking technique first popularised by Degas to produce a uniquely painterly quality. A monotype, like a drawing or painting, is an original artwork. A variation on a design can be created, but never an exact copy.
Typographica is a collection of typefaces lifted from magazine advertising from the late fifties and early sixties, and is the first in a series of work to explore this theme. I like the fact that a commercial typeface in a vintage magazine can be given a new lease of life in a hand drawn graphic piece.
Snake. The texture and patterning on a snake’s skin is the main focus here. The printing process allows inventive pattern making and the snake’s shape its dictated and confined by the square edges of the paper.
Lockdown Kitchen. I watched a lot of black and white ‘kitchen sink’ films during lockdown last year. In the linocut I decided to focus on a scene from ‘A Taste of Honey’ where Dora Bryan and her daughter move to yet another dingy bedsit. The clunky pots and pans and the claustrophobic kitchen space attempt to sum up the poverty and simplicity of life in fifties Britain.
Olivia Rawnsley
Olivia is a London based artist creating limited editions of handcrafted sculptural lighting and paper cut artworks. Olivia’s work compels the viewer to investigate not only the design and aesthetic form of an object and artwork but how they interact with the space around them.
Each individual work is cut from one continuous sheet of paper, as negative space is removed and only the positive remains to bring the image to life. A strong focus within Olivia’s work is her fascination with British trees and woodlands. Her most recent and ongoing Forest Series explores the bare trees and forests of Britain in winter. Incredibly intricate and detailed these works are first cut from paper and then hand painted with black Indian ink.
The Arbor lamp was inspired by Britain’s native oak trees with the shade depicting the stark shapes of trees in winter, branches intertwined. The solid oak base roots the shade’s origins connecting it to the heritage of its design. Integral to Olivia’s ethos is her commitment to working with British manufacturers. The Arbor lamp is handcrafted by UK based artisans working in close collaboration with Olivia. The choice to use traditional craft techniques, small-scale artisans and workshops is a deliberate and considered choice that ties in with her origins in paper cutting.
Olivia also works directly with clients to create unique commissioned paper cut outs. Clients can convey an image or an idea and Olivia will transform their vision into a unique piece of artwork. Through a series of consultations Olivia will present the client with proposals based on the clients personal vision. The finished result will be a combination of the clients concept and Olivia’s interpretation of that original idea.
Andrea Robinson
Andrea Robinson works with printmaking, text, installation, film, performance and poetry. She is a founder member of print collective The Friday Group, gallery artist at Yorkshire's Water Street Gallery, and a member of the Printmakers Council. She exhibits regularly at venues throughout the UK and internationally - most recently in Fringe Arts Bath Festival 2021 and at the Cervantes Institute in Bordeaux.
Her prints and artist books are held in private and public collections and archives, including Scarborough Museum, Tate Britain, the British Library, Chelsea College of Art, and the V&A. She was Sprout Artist in Residence in 2020.
Marta Rusin
Kociara is the pseudonym of a Furzedown-based surface pattern and graphic designer, Marta Rusin.
Born in Poland, Marta arrived in London in 1999 with the intention of staying for a year, but soon found that London and
its vibrant energy have an irresistible pull. Whilst her degree was in linguistics, she realised that being in London could be
a new start to follow her passion in art and design. Soon, she enrolled on an Art and Design course at the London College
of Fashion to pursue her interest in fashion illustration. This was followed by a more technical course in 3D design and animation. Eventually, Marta’s career took a turn to work as a graphic designer for sectors like publishing, marketing and finance, while she continued to pursue her passion for illustration in the surface pattern deign field.
Marta had her designs licensed by an independent German luxury scarf producer; and also had a licensing deal with the American fabric company Robert Kaufman Fabrics. Her ‘Cleopatra’ design was printed on a wallpaper to the adorn walls
of a New York club. She also has many designs made into products like clothes, lampshades, notebooks, cushions and bags which are made and sold by independent traders on Etsy, Not on the High Street and other platforms. Her designs
are purchased by many individual clients for their personal clothing or home décor projects, mainly through her online store on Spoonflower where you can buy her fabric and wallpaper. She also sells on other online marketplaces like Redbubble, Society6 and UK based Contrado, where the designs can be purchased on ready-made products.
Marta offers bespoke custom design / illustration work as well as courses in surface pattern design and monetising
the designs on online print-on-demand marketplaces. She is now also offering silk accessories and leather handbags
made with her unique prints.
Iain Selwyn-Reeves - Furzedown Art Studio
Iain has lived in Furzedown for almost 20 years and is a full-time interiors photographer by day.
He has developed a distinct range of photographic artwork. Each piece starts with an original high-resolution photograph of a location, which is then digitally edited to create the final artwork.
Iain’s work includes many South London locations. Tooting has of course been of particular interest and features in several prints.
Iain also enjoys the more traditional approach to photography, which can be seen in his landscape images.
Lynn Selwyn-Reeves - Furzedown Art Studio
Lynn is a Furzedown based freelance photographer and illustrator working under the name of Furzedown Art Studio with her husband Iain.
Lynn’s artwork includes both digital creative photography and hand rendered line drawings of the local area, homes, initials, designs for wedding and personalised stationery, children’s name and nursery illustrations.
She enjoys the freedom that digital photography allows, to use the editing process as a medium for abstracting everyday objects or locations to give a new perspective.
Lynn creates natural portraits for families, headshots and content shots for websites, social media and business profiles, capturing workplaces in a relaxed contemporary style reflecting the culture and personalities of those who work there.
Lynn also designs a range of a small gift items based on her prints and drawings.
Commissions and enquiries welcome.
Peter Solari
Landscape and the environment have always intrigued me, and the light, colour and form of the landscape can be both subtly beautiful and awe-inspiringly powerful. I am concerned with recording moments in time, the ever changing features around us, the fleeting moments that bring back memories or touch our soul.
The three artworks I have submitted for this exhibition are all black and white studies recording moments in time that encapsulate the power of light and it’s ability to affect the environment.
Maria Storey
Maria is an Artist who makes original prints using relief techniques in the form of lino cuts. Maria draws inspiration from her love of nature and of the wildlife that inhabits urban London and the English countryside.
Daughter to a Polish émigré fine artist, her creative development has grown within the context of Poland’s rich and unique heritage in folk art.
Maria’s prints are all hand printed limited editions, generally ranging from 10 to 50.
Each print is individually numbered and signed.
She has exhibited in Joint shows at Sprouts Arts
Wandsworth Artist Open House
The Streatham Festival
The Woodfield Pavilion
Morley Gallery London
Valerie Taylor
I began drawing in charcoal and have used it constantly over the years, working in various Adult Education establishments from Folkestone to St Ives, Tooting to Morley College. I use it in Life Drawing and Landscape. In later years I have worked also in watercolour, ideal for working in the countryside, and latterly in acrylic and oils combined with mixed media.
Several years' ago I came across a piece of stone sculpture which really fascinated me and which I visited many times, drawing it in situ. It conveyed both terror and heart-rending vulnerability, aggression and defensiveness. I subsequently spent a long time trying to find a way of conveying these emotions 2 dimensionally.
Eventually The Red Glove emerged, totally different from anything else I have done to date. I am still surprised by it.
Barrie Temple
‘Born in Cheshire, he studied at Edinburgh College of Art before moving into the advertising business, where his work in design provided structure and discipline to his artistic development in his formative years. Winner of the Royds prize for painters working in advertising, his work now hangs in Public & Private Institutions – Ministries, Banks, Universities, Private Members Clubs - as well as in many businesses, hotels, hospitals, restaurants and private collections in Europe - including Italy, France, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, and the UK; USA - from Florida to California; plus in Canada, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. He has made a speciality of painting in series, of subjects and moods.’
Mo
Mo is a conceptual and non-conceptual Artist living and working in South London. A Central St Martin’s graduate, she has been studying and practicing art for over twenty years. She works in 2d and 3d utilizing a broad mix of media; from steel to sound paint to performance. She is particularly
interested in portraiture, narrative and the human condition. She also writes.
