Open House Exhibition

OCTOBER 1st – 13th open 11am to 5pm weekdays, 6pm weekends

Opening night event: Tues 1 Oct 6-8pm

Opening Tuesday 1st October, 53 artists are joining our group members’ show as part of this year’s Wandsworth Artists’ Open House. You can find us at Venue 5 on the Tooting and Furzedown Art Trail. The Private View is Tuesday 1st October from 6-8pm, all very welcome.

Lots of other familiar artists will be showing their work around Furzedown and you can pick up a free art trail map from Sprout or download a copy from Open House website - www.artistsopenhouse.co.uk

Exhibitors:
Abigail Lipski
Ailbhe Phelan
Agnieszka Matras
Amanda Blunden
Angela van den Berg
Ania pieniazek
Anna Lando
Bren Keyte
Chris Lessware
Claire Chandler
David Carlisle
Diane Kinsella
Elisabetta Lando
Georgina Kyriacou
Gina Musa
Graeme Hartley
Harri Fredman
Ishbel Fleming Boyd
Iain Selwyn Reeves
Jane Clark
Jane Wonham
Jaqueline Merry Bernard
John Bartholomew
Julia Court
Julie Sullock
Karen Rowntree
Kate Marsden
Kay Sandham Banks
Linda Firth
Lucia Babjakova
Lucinda Denning
Lucy Velarde
Lynn Selwyn Reeves
Magda Kowalski
Margo Random
Maria Storey
Nick Hook
Paula Boyd-Barrett
Penny Smith
Peter Solari
Peter Wright
Phillippa Rose
Rebecca Morris
Ronnie Hackston
Sarah Ramos
Stefan Szczelkun
Steven Gappy
Sue Owen
Sue Rentoul
Susheel Basra
Tammy-Rose Baker
Valerie Taylor
Zahra Karami

Autumnal

A solo exhibition by Jana Rychvalska

15 – 26 October: Private View Thurs 17 Oct, 5 to 8:30pm

My art is heavily inﬂuenced by listening to classical music. This genre of music frees me and channels my creativity.

In January 2020 I took a leap of faith and I have put myself out as a professional artist. I started using Instagram @jana_dragonﬂy when I had my ﬁrst professional art exhibition in The Sprout Arts Gallery, October 2020. My e-shop www.jrcreativeart.com serves both as a tangible and downloadable (ready for printing A4-A3) art gallery.

Currently, I am most known for my abstract pieces, which have been compared to stained glass windows, Gustav Klimt, or to the lands as seen from above. Some see African or Aboriginal inﬂuences due to the use of a primary colour palette and the dotting technique. My abstract pieces are the result of expanding my original artwork ‘Abstract in Red’ 2006. A vibrant piece composed of primary colours in geometrically inﬂuenced composition.

Another key element in my work is the use of gold leaf and use of acrylic enamels. They too feature in my 2006 piece, although I have since developed several different ways of texturing and positioning the shimmer. Skulls are not my natural choice of an art topic, but during the ‘Human Skull’ commissioned work I have developed a newer approach to my dotting technique, which I then particularly enjoyed executing in the abstract painting ‘Sonavar’. In July 2023, my fracture accident limited what I could make during the ﬁrst few months. This is how my colourful paper format ‘Framed Summer Abstracts’ and ‘Framed Mixed Media’ came to exist. These became my top selling works and now I see my accident as a ‘silver lining’ experience.

In October 2023 I painted ‘Ruby’, ‘Autumnal’, ‘Rowan’ and ‘Otherwise engaged’ and my vibrant ‘Variable Expanses’ and ‘Agamor’ were inﬂuenced by my trip to Morocco, 2024. In July 2024, I completed my ﬁrst 3D piece, a female mannequin dummy titled ‘Artist Assigned At Birth’. This work ﬁrst featured in the Parallax Art Fair (July), followed by three weeks solo ‘Emancipation Of Colour’ in the Woodﬁeld Pavilion (August) and now in The Sprout Arts Gallery ‘Autumnal’ exhibition.

‘House Keys’ project started in August 2024 and it is my photod-ocumentation of objects we handle everyday, yet hardly anyone has a photo of their own house keys. My target is to photograph 1000, then 2k and so on. I am awaiting a response to my project proposal submitted to the Tate Modern. Thank you for participation in my ‘House Keys’ project, especially when we are heading towards technology locking systems and these will one day be a relic of the past.

Jana was born in Slovakia and moved to London in 1995. @jana_dragonﬂy

ECHOES OF THE WOODS

Drawn in Tooting - David Mumby

29 Oct to 9 Nov: Private View Wednesday 30 October

The 2020 lockdown took me back into the woods of Tooting Common, where I live and where I had spent many wonderful playful times when my children were small boys. I love the quietude of the woods, its intimacy, its short-cuts, the bird song, its seasonal changes and I have since spent long periods walking and sitting there, drawing, painting, writing.

My works are always made in situ, responding intimately and sensually to the place, its textures, its sounds, its colours and light. I work in different seasons, often in sequences within books. I hope all is steeped in this little landscape, imbued with a sense of place.

My books document in words and images my walks through those woods, not mapped walks, nor grand visitas, but the serendipitous quotidian glances, the sylvan surprises in very urban woods. Some of those glances have latterly become stained glass panels, in which I hope to capture the light flooding through the trees. And some have evolved, most recently, into little printed books, @muddypress, playful, tactile, and in the case of ripples scribbles, a book purely of drifting riverine words.

A further body of work also has its origins during lockdown, a series of studies from my allotment and garden, celebrating growth and nature during that difficult time. And Giovanni, my local delicatessen, remained open throughout, suppling me with a delightful variety of fruits and vegetables, both for my table and for my studio. Concertinas of drawn and painted views are also central to much of my work realised on the Greek island of Alonnisos, where each summer I draw and paint, and swim.

Website davidmumby.com Instagram @mumbyart

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The Art of Wonder

12th to 23rd November: Ania Pieniazek

11am to 5pm (Closed Monday)

Opening Night: Tuesday 12^th November 2024 from 6-8pm

A retrospective, solo exhibition of paintings by Ania Pieniazek. This show brings together a vast selection of paintings that spans over three years of her career as a full-time artist.

Ania displayed a talent for art in early childhood. From the age of 10, she began to attend additional art classes and received tutoring from a number of well-established Polish artists. At 13, she received her first oil paints from her father, and has worked in the medium for over 30 years now. Since moving to London in 2005, Ania’s paintings have been exhibited in numerous solo and joint exhibitions. Her work is on display with multiple galleries throughout the UK, and can be found in the homes of collectors across the country and beyond.

Recently, Ania has become a member of Association of Polish Artists in Great Britain. She exhibited with Society of Women Artists and Chelsea Art Society and is frequently represented by well established galleries at Affordable Art Fair and at Fresh Art Fair.

Artists statement:

Painting gives me incredible freedom to interpret the world I see and feel. I take an object or a memory that inspires me and shape it onto a canvas with my emotions. Everything is organic, imperfect, no straight lines or right angles, even the edge of the table is wavy and bumpy. I love this natural order with no rules inspired by tree branches, meandering of the rivers or oddly shaped fruits and flowers.

Mixing oil paints on a pallet is therapeutic and exciting, because you can’t really tell what you might discover next. It could be a colour or a shade you have never seen before. I believe that colours have healing powers as I am instinctively drawn to a specific one or a combination, depending on my state of being.

The process of painting helps me to forget about my worries and troubles. It makes me happy and my intent is to spread that joy to everyone. If my painting has brought a smile onto your face or evoked a warm feeling in your heart, I have achieved what I was hoping for.

By portraying blissful but fleeting moments I want to express the importance of finding time to be still in our hectic lives and to appreciate what is real and tangible. The smell of the flowers, the sweet taste of the fruit or the beauty of the sun rays reflecting in the glass jar, reminds us what life is all about. Chasing your dreams may be fun, but only in the present moment is when miracles happen.

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