We are delighted to host another year of the Brockley Open Studios. Over 50 local artists have signed up and will open their homes and studios to the general public to showcase their work.

This year the CTK Sixth Form join us as well. We are also supporting emerging artists who have recently graduated so look out for our forthcoming exhibition at the Pop Up Shop during the week leading up to our 2024 event - ‘Theatre of Sisyphus’ presented by Nancy Singh.

We’re excited that this brings an opportunity to young, fresh talent in the area.

Dates 

• Saturday 6 July 1-6pm

• Sunday 7 July 1-6pm
  

2024 Map
A printed version will be distributed in the area in the coming weeks, will be available at the Hilly Fields Summer Fayre, and you can download a pdf version HERE or click on the image below.

It is also available from the Pop Up Shop (between 11-6) at Brockley Cross 2-7 July where Nancy Singh is holding her vibrant new show ‘Theatre of Sisyphus’.

PAINTINGs

Amelia Power
Although Amelia’s work always starts with observation, memory and imagination form a crucial part of my process. Her subject matter is taken from the world around her and although it can seem mundane, she is interested in drawing out the drama of the everyday and somehow making the familiar seem strange.

Plants almost always appear in her work. Their silent presence often feels more animal than vegetable and the foliage in my painting often takes on anthropomorphic qualities. Many of the paintings explore the relationship between plants and the built environment and the tension between the two. The plants chosen tend not to be celebrated specimens, but any commonplace plant life; weeds, supermarket bouquets and familiar pot plants.
ameliapower.com Instagram: @ameliampower

PHOTOGRAPHY

Andrew Sleightholme
Andrew is a Brockley-based photographer and musician. He grew up in the North-East of England on the border of County Durham and North Yorkshire, and was drawn from an early age towards the dark and powerful landscapes of the Pennines and the North Sea coast, experiences which have informed his creative practice and love of wild places and the metaphors distilled within them. Andrew went on to read music at Oxford University, and has exhibited photographic work in solo shows in both London and Whitstable.
andrewsleightholme.com
Instagram: @andrewsleightholme

PAINTINGs

Ann Taylor
Inspired by nature, especially landscapes and seascapes. Ann goes on location sketching and taking photographs, and then develop these ideas back in the studio. Uses a variety of media and techniques, building up layers to create abstract and semi-abstract paintings.
Contact Brockley Open Studios for more info

PAINtings

Arnold Dobbs
London-based artist Arnold Dobbs has built an extensive body of work over his prolific career spanning six decades. His work includes figurative and abstract pieces in mainly oil as well as some sculpture. In 1992 at the age of 50 Arnold enrolled as a mature student at St John Cass Art Faculty, formally part of the London Guildhall University, now London Metropolitan University. This academic and practical study allowed him to refine his techniques while retaining his distinct artistic perspective developed over decades of practice.

Since graduating with a BA in Fine Art (Hons) in 1996, Arnold has continued to actively create in his studio at APT (Artists in Perpetuity Trust), Deptford, South East London.

He is known for his strong use of colour and expressive imagery. He has exhibited his work in solo and group shows throughout his career including galleries in London and the UK, as well as Denn Hagg in Holland, and New York.
arnolddobbs.com
Instagram: @arnold_dobbs

CERAMICS

Belinda Murray
My ceramics are playful and inspired by nature. I use a range of hand building techniques to create unique decorative pieces that celebrate the tones and textures of the clay material. Whilst greens and blue glazes decorative my thrown tableware pieces to form a harmonious collection.

In addition to this creative work, I also work therapeutically facilitating pottery sessions for the South London and Maudsley Trust. I value the positive effect that working with clay has on our mental health.
marmaladetime.co.uk
Instagram: @beetroot_girl

Paintings

Biddy Bunzl
Visual memories rearranged, layers upon layers of colour creating views and stories without holding back. Bunzl’s practice includes painting, ceramics, drawings and stained glass.
biddybunzl.com

PAINTINGs | PRINTMAKING

Britta Pohl
Britta is interested in the aura of places and people. Each environment or person we come across evokes different emotions. She is fascinated by how human activity has the power to colour our surroundings, and leave an echo, even when we are no longer present. Or how the memory of a movement leaves traces behind. Intrigued by how there are things that draw the viewers' eye, whilst others simply remain unnoticed. Attending to these subtle cues, trying to capture something of the atmosphere of a scene, Britta would like her work to sensitise and draw attention to what normally gets overlooked.

Her preferred medium is oil on board or canvas, but she also paints on different surfaces such as found pieces of wood.
brittapohl.com
Instagram: @brittapohlart

Cyanotypes

Carla Pengilly
Cyanotypes inspired by using plants found on local journeys to parks, wildlife areas and my own garden.

This process uses special chemicals and techniques to create camera-less photography.
Contact via Brockley Open Studios

PENCIL

Cecily Saunders
Cecily is a wildlife artist and focuses specifically on animal portraits in colour pencil.
cecilyannart.co.uk
Instagram: @cecilyannart

PAINTINGS | JEwellery

Charlotte E Padgham
Charlotte is an experimental and sustainability-driven artist and jewellery designer-maker exploring themes of transition, manipulation, ephemerality and 'imperfection'. Using innovative processes unique to her practice she combines found objects, waste material and organic matter, fused with precious and semi-precious elements. She has a fascination with texture, degradation and decay and in the traces and residues left behind often using her body as tool and material to investigate the transference, intervention and preservation of the self.

Her work is rooted in what is discarded and in the potential of renewal. The alchemy of waste.

Circular economy principles are an integral part of her process. With a focus and commitment to ethical and sustainable making, materials and waste are reused, reworked and reimagined within, across and beyond her art and jewellery practices. She is passionate about sourcing materials with her own hands, re-using what is already in circulation, and giving new life to what cannot be recycled.
9-lives.org.uk
Instagram: @catts9lives

painting | DIGITAL printmaking

Christopher Kennedy
Christopher’s work is abstract, a celebration of colour, tone and texture.Influenced by the diverse culture of London, and incorporating elements of graffiti to capture the interplay between urban images/idioms and abstract forms. He invites the viewer to embark on a sensory journey where each stroke and splash of colour serves to immerse them in their own emotional landscapes..
christopher-k.com
Instagram: @christopherk.art

ceramics

Elisabetta Fumagalli
Elisabetta makes thrown functional ceramic ware and hand build sculptural ceramics.
Instagram: @bettystropicalcafe

printmaking

Elisabetta Pancucci
Lisa’s work has its heart in surrealist art. She likes to take the ideas of what we may call feminine beauty and then to offer a more unconventional and unexpected perspective on the, hitherto, ‘acceptable’ female image. Lisa’s background in figurative expressionism and painting blends its way throughout her prints. She experiments with layering in the printmaking process and traditional methods can be seen to play with more modern approaches of mixing media to create her unique pieces.
epancucci.co.uk/lander
Instagram: @epancucci

sculpture | ceramics

Emily Glass
Emily’s work explores the body, both animal and human, with a current focus on food. For BOS 24 she will be showing sculptures from the series Semifreddo which have been inspired by desserts. The geometric grid-like patterns of factory produced wafers and waffles, are contrasted with more flowing, organic layers that reference the internal body.

In the making process Emily balances elements that are controlled, such as casting and hand building with processes that encompass an element of chance and cannot be completely predetermined. All of her pieces have a tactile quality and she has an experimental approach, using a wide range of materials and processes including ceramics and textiles.
emilyglass.co.uk
Instagram @emilyglass.studio

glass | metal

Eryka Isaak
Eryka creates artworks, installations, small articles and jewellery using predominantly recycled materials. Raised in a full science family - nuclear physicist mother, radio astronomer sister, and solar physicist father, Eryka has given in to the ambient absorption of scientific influences, and reacted upon these through material manipulation with the eyes of an aesthete.

She creates one-off sculptures as well as smaller works and can be persuaded to work to commission under special circumstances.

Harnessing the material transformations, artworks arise filled with secrecy and dynamism. Inviting the realisation of glass as a wonderfully tactile, robust and enduring material. The perception of movement is created within the glass, a whirl of gases in space, sediment caught in a current, or trapped like fossils.

Pushing the limits of the material's interactions informs her practise. Recent works have been inspired by The European Space Agency's satellites CHEOPS, and Cluster missions.
erykaisaak.com
Instagram: @erykaisaakglasssculptor

paintings

Fran Hunt
Fran Hunt is a painter working with acrylics. She uses colour, texture and form to produce vivid, immersive pieces; creating paintings with unusual and challenging colour variations, shapes or textural qualities. Her work tends to be abstract and sits within an abstract expressionist genre.

Fran incorporates a range of techniques into her paintings. She loves the crispness and clarity of hard-edge paintings. She also creates abstract art with self-made stencils, where abstract symbols act both as a visual aid to the creative process, and as an object of the art itself. She explores the hidden dimensions of multi-layered art pieces, where the unseen is in some ways made visible.

Fran has a BA Hons. in Art and has exhibited in the UK and internationally.
franhuntart.co.uk
Instagram: @instafran.art

Woodwork | Cabinetry

Francesco Paini
Family Project focuses on portraiture that celebrates people’s essence and connection – over their appearance – through furniture, paintings, drawings and prints.

Driven by the ambition to create an emotional connection between each piece and their users, Family Project is interested in dealing with and balancing the simple and the complicated, the playful and the sophisticated, with a sense of humour being a constant key element.

While currently focusing on woodwork and drawings, Family Project constantly explores new forms of expression to share its values, both in two and three dimensions, physical and digital, with the ultimate goal to celebrate relationships, the multifaceted notion of family and its varied and varying meaning across cultures and phases of life.

Family Project is currently working on a new series of hand-painted folding screens in its studio space located in Breakspears Mews and shared with artists and makers Theodore Vass and Paul Miller.
familyproject.co.uk
Instagram: @family__project__/

drawings | printmaking

Geraldine Walsh
Geraldine creates visual artwork, drawing, painting & prints
saatchiart.com/GeraldineWalsh
Instagram: @myartgeraldinewalsh

collages

Gill Hickman
Inspired by textures in the environment, her love of nature and her meditation practice, Gill Hickman creates uplifting embossed works using fine hand-made papers from around the world. She builds rich layered collages which she embosses using an etching press. These are embellished with precious metal leaf - gold, copper, silver etc. Gill works with simple soft shapes such as circles and squares which bring a sense of balance, harmony and presence. She sometimes adds a flowing, embellished line, reminiscent of a winding river or a path. In contrast, her blind embossed pieces, with their crisp, sharp edges express emotional elements of the human condition, such as "Wobbly Inside" or "Inner Turmoil". Gill also has many "textural photographs" taken on her Minolta SLR camera on analogue film back in the 90's. When viewed all together one sees the artistic journey of the last 25 years.
gillhickman.com
Instagram: @gillhickmanart

ceramics

Jan Barker
Jan’s work is mainly functional ware thrown on the potters wheel, and most of it is fired to stoneware temperatures, although she loves experimenting with different clays, processes, decoration - she makes some earthenware, some raku, and has been experimenting with found local clay. She makes most of her own glazes, some of which use ash, ground rocks and local clays. She is also increasingly enjoying hand making processes such as pinching and paddling. She is very aware of the environmental implications of firing a kiln and using colourants etc, so she reclaims her clay and glazes, fires her kiln as efficiently as possible and is sparing in the use of colourants. Her work is all food safe (with the exception of some purely decorative raku pots). Her aim is for her pots to be functional, strong and beautiful so that they give pleasure to people using them.
Instagram: @janbarker_ceramics

engravings

Juliet Johnson
Glass is engraved with an electric drill, small or giant, which can be like drawing with a pencil. Juliet is often inspired by the weird shapes of plant growth, on the reflective shapes of mirrors or glass. She has loved wild plants since childhood, round about the time of the last Coronation.
Contact Brockley Open Studios for more info

paintings

John Ronayne
John Ronayne studied at the Royal College of Art. His recent painting work represents the visible world of town and landscape, but with horizons pushed further down the frame to place emphasis on sky effects and formations of clouds.
johnronayne.art

monotypes

Julieta Molina
Julieta creates experimental monotypes which involves using a flat surface as a plate and adding ink to create an image before taking an impression on paper. The result is a one-of-a-kind print, called monotype, which is not repeatable, making the technique closer to drawing or painting than other printing process.
designandtea.co.uk
Instagram: @Designandtea

ceramics

Laura Fyfe
Laura creates handmade stoneware pottery from a garden studio. Her aim is to create beautiful, yet functional tableware to bring little moments of joy to the everyday. The glazes are inspired by the sense of calm that working with clay brings and are in muted matt tones. The intention is to pass that feeling of calm on to their new homes.
lcfceramics.com
Instagram: @lcf.ceramics

printmaking

Lucy Morris-Thomas
Lucy is a born and bred South East Londoner. Her baseline of work is in graphic design of which she has been developing into screen printing.

She has been using printmaking to built up a practical knowledge in design principles and illustration. Her printmaking projects are inspired by children’s learning ephemera especially alphabet books. These subjects have been key elements to her most recent print projects. The process of the prints starts with paper cut outs and is then turned into a digital version of the artwork to screen print.

Lucy’s alphabet print series which she started in 2021 began with ‘A is for Apple’ and has since grown into a bigger print series with multiple letters designed.
loumt.co.uk
Instagram: @loumt

paintings | illustrations | printmaking

Molly Hankinson
Molly Hankinson is a visual artist from London, currently based in Glasgow. She graduated in Fine Art: Painting and Printmaking from The Glasgow School of Art (2018), and was then awarded the graduate studio residency at SWG3 Studio Warehouse, where she now has her permanent studio. Molly looks at the honest and unapologetic representation of people and communities through an intersectional feminist lens, with an unparalleled and celebratory reclamation and ownership of space evident in her work. Incorporating the aesthetics of bright and considered colour placement with use of continuous line, Molly creates ‘bold and subtly detailed, inclusive celebrations of feminine vitality’.

​She works across a broad range of artistic practices, from large-scale mural work, to painting, printmaking, and hand-drawn and digital illustration.
mollyhankinson.com
Instagram: @mollyhankinson.studio

paintings

Naomi Thornton
Abstract acrylic art borne out of an exuberant love of colour - original paintings, prints and jewellery, plus cushions, coasters, mugs and clocks based on original works.
Instagram: @rabbitholeacrylics

printmaking | stained glass

Rachel Mooney
Rachel is a landscape architect by profession and has been printmaking alongside for over 25 years. Her early works concentrate on landscapes, but living in an increasingly urban Lewisham she has become fascinated by the every day, old, and often neglected shop fronts, and their over-looked details and beauty; almost as an archival responsibility she has spent many years bringing back the detail and information which we daily passed by, and which in most cases is gone forever. As a tonic to the technical nature of her shop fronts, she works also with dry point on perspex, with unique monotypes. Whilst trying out screen printing on glass, she was drawn to the glass workshop and has created a series of hand painted stained glass panels.
mohdesign.co.uk
Instagram: @rachelmooney_print

printmaking | textiles

Rowena Ardern
Prints, embroideries, textiles and cards with images made from original drawings of flora and fauna celebrating the natural world.
rowenaardern.com
Instagram: @rowenaardern

ceramics | sculptures

Ruty Benjamini
Ceramic art inspired by natural forms and textures, landscapes, ancient ceramics and glass, and the human figure. I make one-off and family groups of sculptural vessels, nude female figurines, wall pieces, and some functional ceramics. My work celebrates clay features, the contrasts between bright and muted colours, smooth and rough textures, and matte and shiny surfaces.

I studied ceramics at Camberwell college of art and graduated in 1985. Since then, I exhibited my work and participated in International ceramic symposiums, art fairs and open studio events, in many places. My work is in public and private collections in Uk and abroad..

I am a member of skylarkgalleries.com, an artist run gallery in London South Bank.
rutybenjamini.com
Instagram: @rutybenjamini

photography

Sandy Connell
Sandy is an analogue photographer who takes a highly technical approach to his compositions while choosing his subject matter with as much emphasis as possible on intuition and subjectivity. This combination of careful composition and subjectivity applies to both his disparate specialties: outdoor photography and live music photography. As a landscape photographer, Sandy is currently working on his biggest project yet, ‘HELL’. BOS 2024 will provide a sneak-peek of the large darkroom print of his leading image for ‘HELL’ but is mainly a showcase for his work with his cousin, Stanley Connell-Longman, in photographing the community of Deptford’s improvisational music collective, Nu Sessions. Sandy has his prints of shots from music jams to display alongside Stanley’s prints and their first ever collaborative photo zine about the jams, as well as their collaborative multi-exposure-photography project with Tim Heinze.
sandyconnell.photography
Instagram: @sandyc0nnell
Instagram: @sandyshootsmusicians

photography

Stanley Connell-Longman
Exploring analogue photography since 2019, Stanley specialises in live music photography and travel photography. His travel photography explores emotionally grounded, experiential imagery that tries to anticipate the memories being formed by the traveller, even as it will inevitably distort and reshape those memories in the future. As such, creating emotionally truthful photographs is Stanley’s priority when documenting journeys and, equally, when documenting live music performances. Since 2023, Stanley has used black and white film exclusively to document the lively music jam community that has sprung up around Deptford-based collective, Nu Sessions. He enlisted his cousin (and co-exhibitor) Sandy Connell to join him in this on-going project and produce the first edition of a biannual photo zine to act as a document of the jams for as long as they last, as well as photographic prints. 
Instagram: @stannipher

paintings

Sym Hue
Sym Hue is a visual artist, who uses acrylic paints to create artwork of the female form. Her artwork highlights the shape and curves of the body, using vibrant colours and exaggerated brushstrokes. Her inspiration comes from her love of colour and the female form, so much so, her paintings are named after the colour palette used. The paintings are available as originals, prints, cards, notebooks and bookmarks.
sym-hue.co.uk
Instagram: @symhue_artist

Photography

Tim Heinze
Tim (a.k.a. Līmen) is a multi-disciplinary photographer, painter and calligrapher, using cyanotypes as a means to combine these fields. Since delicate paint brushes can be used to provide the photo-sensitive cyanotype solution, it can be applied calligraphically and the result is a photographic painting. When dealing with fragile Japanese (Washi 和紙) paper, strong, crisp imagery can provide high-level friction within the piece itself and the application is anything but trivial, thus demanding concentration and careful, determined handling; just as the calligraphic brush stoke does when being rendered. BOS 2024 marks the first birthday of Tim’s journey in analogue photographic techniques, how they interact with Tim’s curiosity for the visual rendition of speech and language, and exploration of the collaborative potential of multiple-exposure photography, which Tim has engaged in with his brother and cousin/fellow exhibitors, Stanley Connell-Longman and Sandy Connell.
Contact Brockley Open Studios

Paintings | drawings

Xiomara Zontelli
Abstract pastels and paintings with live performances.
Instagram: @Zontelli_art

PRINTMAKING

Anna Hillman
Screen prints on paper : Structure x Chaos.
Urban explorer and nature lover with a background in photography, Anna has moved away from a digital screen-based creative output towards a messier, squishier, more tangible and tactile creative experience.

Approaching both screenprinting processes and materials in an exploratory and experimental way, Anna investigates tensions between structure and chaos, creating images where order and randomness co-exist.

Her subject matter is heavily inspired by her lifelong curiosity and passion for nature, and the interconnectedness of all things biological, physical and chemical, man-made and natural.
Instagram: @anna23amazingness

knitting | dye specialist

Celia Calderon Asensio
Designer Maker Knitting & Dye Specialist
BA Women's Wear Central Saint Martins
Instagram: @c.c.asensio

fire etching

Kaori Homma
Using Invisible Ink and Fire, Homma creates her Aburidashi Fire Etching on paper.

This unusual method of making art attributes its origin to espionage and other secret letter-writing throughout human history. In Japanese, the technique is also associated with secret correspondence, known as Aburidashi. Homma draws images with this "invisible" ink and instead of concealing it like a spy, she exposes the images to fire so that the heat etches images and becomes a part of the fragile structure of the paper to share the hidden image with the audience.

Homma’s works are exhibited internationally, and feature in the RA Summer Show regularly. Her works are in public and private collections. Homma is an associate lecturer at CSM and Camberwell School of Art at UAL.
kaorihomma.co.uk
Instagram: @kaorihomma1

ceramics

Laura Towers
Laura Towers is a ceramicist based in South East London. She throws and hand-builds with stoneware and porcelain, making bespoke sculptural vases and domestic ware.

Laura experiments with glaze making and glaze combinations to find attractive, tactile surfaces that reflect the spontaneous and organic colours, patterns and textures of coastal settings.
Instagram: @lauratowersceramics

Illustration | plushes

Mimi Soan
Mimi’s illustrations and paintings explore the connection between humans and beasts, featuring female characters and their animal companions. Mimi’s inherent love of animals also inspire the creation of a range of soft, characterful creatures. Using up-cycled materials such as shrunken jumpers, blankets and other woollen articles, She enjoys including small details like the cuff, buttonholes or neckline that give clues to the materials previous life.
Instagram: @Mimisoan1

paintings | illustrations | printmaking

Nancy Singh
Nancy will be showcasing photographic work from a series but has experimented with material and explored the relationship using materials and visual concept.
Instagram: @nancee.sin

ink drawings

Patrick Hurley
Patrick is a one line artist. All of his works are one single line that never crosses. There is a start and an end and although the line may touch itself, it never actually intersects.
phlakeart.weebly.com
Instagram: @Hurleyman03

sculpture

Richard Lawrence
Richard works in wood, his sculptures are carved and constructed. He works from nature the flora and fauna of the world and the impact of global warming. He makes wood cut prints which have developed out of his sculpture, he uses the off cuts from my carving for printing blocks using the grain and splits to evolve the image. Over the years he has worked in different mediums, clay, plaster, found object and stone.
Instagram: @deptfordlawrence1

printmaking | drawings

Ruth de Monchaux
Etchings and screenprints in colour, and black and white drawings.
ruthdemonchaux-prints.co.uk

photography

Sally Baker
Black & white Photography from my archive of 1980/90’s London gay literati and glitterati inc Soho’s now long gone Madame JoJo’s burlesque drag night club.
workingonthebody.com
Instagram: @Sally_therapist

paintings | printmaking

Sarah Crossfield
Sarah is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, printmaking, film, photography and installation.   Her practice is currently focussed on researching impermanence through both representational and more reductive or abstract methods. The choice or construction of the three-dimensional base for the ‘two-dimensional’ image is often used to play with or enhance the concept of fragility and the ephemeral. Pieces may straddle the boundary between painting and sculpture. Recent work explores the unstoppable and fleeting changes in the landscape, interiors or moments of motion. Sarah thoughtfully examines how light, texture and form continuously morph. Themes of decay, regeneration and inevitable passing of time weave through her work.
sarahcrossfield.com
Instagram: @sarah_crossfield

photography

Stephen Leslie
Stephen is a street photographer specialising in candid, unposed photography. Much of this is local or centred in and around London. He will be selling books, prints and zines.  
stephenleslie.co.uk
Instagram: @step_hen_les_lie

sculpture | furniture

Theodore Vass
Theodore is an artist and furniture maker working with locally sourced wood, metal and photochromic pigments to explore the relationship between sculpture, printmaking and functionality within furniture. He makes his work by manipulating wood with steam, lamination, tension and glue. The forms are developed into screens for printing, or sections for sculpture or furniture, a question that is kept open for as long as possible. He’s interested in his work having a site-specific quality. This could be a material with a certain provenance, a quality of light at a given time of day/year, or a certain location – furniture made in response to a domestic space.
theovass.com
Instagram: @theodore_vass

sculpture with lighting | printmaking

With Lasers
Computational artist exploring emergent and other behaviours
with-lasers.studio
Instagram: @w.ith.lasers

stained glass

Zoë Henderson
Zoë has a passion for colour, light, shape and construction which is reflected in my work.

She makes bespoke panels ranging from small decorative pieces, painted pieces, mirrors to commissioned new panels and repair work.

Her work alongside you to create both traditional and modern windows that will complement unique spaces.
Instagram: @zozosglass.and.art

TEXTILES

Beki Bright
Textile Designer: Creating screen printed interior fabric
Homes and Gardens Best Newcomer
Instagram: @beki_bright

TEXTILES

Stephanie Anchonwa 
Stephanie is a textile artist specialising in dyed and printed textiles across fashion and costume. In her personal work she takes a playful approach to developing a library of exciting textile processes, leaning on her fashion and costume knowledge.
Instagram: @stephanieachonwa