We are delighted to host another year of the Brockley Open Studios. Nearly 60 local artists have signed up and will open their homes and studios to the general public to showcase their work.
Dates
Saturday 5 July 10-6pm
Sunday 6 July 10-6pm
Deborah Andrews I Map 31
A contemporary textile artist and illustrator. Her practice reflects our shared experiences of the human condition and our intersectionality in the world, creating work that is emotionally resonant and figurative in expression and imagery. She is always looking, drawing and recording the world around her with mark-making and exploring textures being central to any project. Her commissioning clients include, The Guardian Newspapers, The Barbican, National Theatre, Latitude and Green Man Festivals, Vital Arts, Horniman Museum, Dulwich Picture Gallery and The Big Draw. Work exhibited this weekend includes original stitched, digital and analogue drawings as well as limited edition prints. Private commissions welcome.
deborahandrews.co.uk
Rowena Ardern l Map 28
An Artist/Designer maker specialising in print, textiles and embroidery for interiors. Ardern’s love of plants and gardens is reflected in her work. Her drawings in nature are translated into finished pieces including prints, framed pieces, cushions and cards. rowenardern.com Instagram @rowenaardern
Sally Baker l Map 17
Black and white portrait photography mainly of London's gay literati and glitterati of the 1980s. Including Jimmy Somerville and Bronski Beat, Zandra Rhodes, backstage at Madam Jojo's burlesque Soho nightclub, and many authors such as Edmund white, Jeanette Winterson, Neil Bartlett, Adam Mars-Jones and Tenebris Light.
sallybaker.com/workingonthebody/photography Instagram @sally_therapist
Jan Barker l Map 13
Handmade and wheel-thrown ceramics made by me
Instagram @janbarker_ceramics
Biddy Bunzl l Map 14
Bunzl's work is bold, abstract, minimal and colourful. Inspiration is drawn from visual memories of both interior and exterior spaces using sketchbooks and notes to create her paintings. Layer upon layer of colour is applied and woven across the canvas responding to light, objects, landscapes and structures. Lines are drawn and re drawn on knife-edge improvisation within the arena Bunzl has constructed for herself, where the smallest added gesture can tilt the work off balance or bring it to fruition.
Bunzl's ceramics are joyful expressions of functionality. They are colourful and unusual, inspired by her New Zealand garden which surrounds her studio.
biddybunzl.com
Ana Paula Cabral l Map 13
Figurative ceramics. For more information contact Brockley Open Studios
Anna-Maria Cahalane l Map 19
Inspired by nature I make prints and wildlife illustrations that often include references to Brockley and the local area through maps and photos. Much of my work is made from natural or recycled materials including handmade paper and hand made ink from oak galls picked in Brockley.
Instagram @am.cm2018
Ric Comline (Mews Pottery) l Map 19
Ric’s ceramics practice is primarily based around wheel-thrown stoneware. Many pieces are functional everyday homeware, but increasingly Ric has been throwing larger pots that are part-sculptural items and part-three dimensional canvases for more painterly glaze experimentation. Mixing glazes from scratch and experimenting with layering, engraving, and different application techniques, this most recent work is what really drives his passion.
Instagram @the_mews_pottery
Sandy Connell l Map 5
Shooting primarily in black and white, I use analogue photography as a means to create personal diaries. My music photography springs from a place of collaboration with musicians and fellow photographers, documenting the creation and togetherness of the live music jam scene in South East London. My travel photography turns a more personal lens on my interests, analysing what I value most in the process of travel and looking for the contrast between the stillness that a foreign place affords the traveller and the moments that fill them with energy and rejuvenation.
sandyconnell.photography
Instagram @sandyc0nnell
Stanley Connell-Longman l Map 5
I shoot predominantly black and white photographs. I am part of the Deptford jazz jam scene, which I photograph monthly. I also like to shoot textures, landscapes, intimate portraits of close freinds as well as create photographic experiments such as double exposures. I print all my own work in the darkroom.
Instagram @stannipher
Nick Cowan l Map 7
I make hand-built figurative ceramic sculptures that explore human imperfections. My work aims to capture moments of weakness brought about by modern life and pervasive technology.
Instagram @nickybisque
Sarah Crossfield l Map 9
Sarah is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, sculpture, printmaking, film, photography and installation. Her practice is 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.
Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons) - The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University
sarahcrossfield.com
Instagram @sarah_crossfield
Arnold Dobbs l Map 17
Expressive abstract and figurative paintings including paintings from life. All sizes. Framed and unframed. Strong colour. Some sculptures and prints and other experimental work.
Arnold Dobbs - artist Instagram @arnold_dobbs
Teresa Earle l Map 3
A response to my environment triggers creation of art in an abstracted way.Using acrylic on canvas or paper the work is simple and direct to evoke tranquility and contemplation. A quiet static experience expressed through the use of a limited colour palette and geometric angularity.
Instagram @teresa.earle.50
Elisabetta Fumagalli l Map 13
Hand thrown functional ceramic ware and hand build sculptural ceramics, to bring joy and beauty into your life.
Instagram @bettystropicalcafe
Laura Fyfe l Map 25
I make tableware and other pots for the home from stoneware clay, for the most part glazed in calming matte tones. I aim to make timeless pieces that bridge the gap between classic and contemporary, allowing the simple forms and beauty of the clay / glaze to shine! My hope is to bring little moments of calm and joy into the homes they end up in.
lcfceramics.com Instagram @lcf.ceramics
Tim Georg Heinze l Map 5
Tim Georg Heinze is an interdisciplinary media artist focusing on Analogue Photography with a background in Augmented Reality and Algorithmic Composition. For BOS 2025 Tim exhibits analogue prints and crafts of his photographic work covering manual lighting techniques, red scale and multiple exposure compositions, infrared, travel, music and street photography, cyanotypes on various materials, photographic calligraphy and experimental formats in both colour and monochrome. The focus of Tim’s work is the interstitial narrative with all its elusive particles, palpable friction and shifts in perspective. As a sound designer and algorithmic composer Tim furthermore develops his photographic work into intimate immersive experiences.
nodanoma.com
Aparna Green l Map 27
I live and work in London and have a studio at Beckenham Place Park mansion.
Instagram @green.aparna
Molly Hankinson l Map 34
Molly Hankinson is a visual artist from Lewisham, based between Glasgow and London. Her work explores ‘safe spaces and the people who occupy them’, weaving narratives of collective gendered experiences, shared empathy, and radical confidence. She is particularly interested in how her art can evoke a feeling, offer comfort, and serve as sites of power.
mollyhankinson.com
Instagram @mollyhankinson.studio
Gill Hickman l Map 22
I have always been drawn to textures in the environment and have collected many fine papers from around the world. I create collages and use an etching press to emboss textures into them. When these are dry I add metal leaf including; aluminium, silver, copper or 24 carat gold to embellish certain areas. The whole process is very meditative.
gillhickman.com
Instagram @gillhickmanart
Craig Hilton l Map 32
Exploring the luminous and the liminal. For more information contact Brockley Open Studios
Kaori Homma l Map 30
Using Invisible Ink and Fire, Homma creates her Aburidashi Fire Etching on paper.
kaorihomma.co.uk
Instagram @kaorihomma1
Sian Hoolahan l Map 1
Table top ceramic sculptures and wall tile panels. sianhoolahan.com Instagram @sianintoclay
Tomoko Hori l Map 21
My contemporary jewellery and hand crafted objects are a small glimpse into the wonderful imaginary world that only exists inside my head. My work is unique, carefully hand crafted and each piece tells its own story. I work with driftwood, precious metals, hand made paper and vintage objects that I collect on my travels.
tomokohori.com
Instagram @tomokohorijewellery
Sym Hue l Map 19
Sym Hue is a lover of bright colours and the human figure. Her paintings depict poses of the female form painted using vibrant colours and large brush strokes. Her paintings celebrate colours and curves. The paintings are available as originals, prints, notebooks, greetings cards and bookmarks.
sym-hue.co.uk Instagram @symhue_artist
Emma Hughes l Map 1
Emma Hughes is a self-taught artist based in London, UK. Passionate about wildlife, she explores the subject through vibrant acrylic paintings that capture the beauty and complexity of different species. She studied Architecture in Manchester and now practices in London, painting in her spare time as a creative outlet. Through her work, she hopes to raise awareness of conservation efforts, inspiring a deeper appreciation and commitment to protecting the natural world. Instagram @emmahughesfineart
Fran Hunt l Map 31
Fran Hunt is a painter specializing in acrylics, creating vivid, immersive works that explore the interplay of colour, texture, and form. Her paintings embrace bold and unconventional colour variations, dynamic shapes, and rich textural qualities, which reflects her interest in abstract expressionism.
Incorporating a range of techniques, Fran incorporates the crisp precision of hard-edge painting, digital art and more experimental approaches. She uses self-made stencils, where abstract symbols serve both as visual guides in her creative process and as integral elements of the final composition. Her work delves into the hidden dimensions of multi-layered pieces, revealing glimpses of the unseen and inviting viewers to uncover new perspectives.
Fran holds a BA (Hons) in Art and has exhibited her work both in the UK and internationally.
franhuntart.co.uk
Instagram @instafran.art
Patrick Hurley l Map 11
I do single line work that never intersects. This means that while the line may touch itself, the whole picture is done with one line that never crosses itself
phlakeart.weebly.com Instagram @hurleyman03
Helen Japes l Map 22
I am a textile designer who has been experimenting with eco-dying and printing as an alternative to the use of harsh chemicals employed in the fashion industry.
Instagram @helenjapestextiles
Juliet Johnson l Map 29
Engraved glass, large or small, using electrical drill. For more information contact Brockley Open Studios
Carrie Leech l Map 23
My work has visceral and macabre qualities that simultaneously draw the observer in with intrigue and curiosity. It explores the liminality between life and death and something that might be in between. Sculptural work is sometimes presented alongside my written poetry where both explore different facets of the emotional world.
Instagram @cleechceramics
Jane Merriman l Map 19
Jane Merriman paints mainly in watercolour on canvas and paper and focuses on landscape, interiors and still life, which includes objects around her home that have special significance in terms of personal history. Instagram @merrimanjane
Ella Milburn l Map 24
Ella Milburn is a Brockley-based collage artist whose hand-cut works explore uncanny and ethereal dreamscapes. She has been creating collages for over ten years, first in Manchester and now in London, selling original pieces and prints. Ella runs Collage Club, a fortnightly creative session at Hill Station Café where participants transform vintage books, magazines, and other found materials into striking, surreal images. What began as informal workshops in her Brockley living room has now become a community where creativity and experimentation flourish.
Instagram: @ella_milb
Julian Mills l Map 20
My work spans drawing (fine ink and charcoal), printmaking (monoprints and etching), and oil painting, focusing on portraits and abstract landscapes, much of which has a dreamy, ambiguous quality. Taking references from Japanese floating world artists and anime, as well as Turner and Auerbach, the scenes I create invite the viewer into spaces where clarity is elusive and the narrative remains just out of reach. This sense of disconnection is central to my practice, creating tension between presence and absence, visibility and obscurity, and hoping to draw the viewer into an almost meditative otherworldly space.
julianmills.com Instagram @julianmillsart
Kay Minchington (Mews Pottery) l Map 13
Kay makes sculptural pots using the coil-building technique with grogged and terracotta clay. Each piece is made by hand, with a focus on natural shapes and textures.
Instagram @the_mews_pottery
Rachel Mooney l Map 32
Rachel is a landscape architect by profession and has been printmaking alongside for over 30 years. She was particularly charmed by many of the local Deptford shopfronts and began a series of etchings to capture their over-looked details, the typography 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
Myrel Morgan Jones l Map 3
It fascinates me how people see, how much or little imagination is needed to see into an image, Very little information can be enhanced by the individual’s experience history and understanding. Seeing with the imagination is part-of the viewing process, even huge amounts of narrative can be added.
myrelmorganjones.com Instagram @myrelmorganjonesart
Belinda Murray
I make beautiful ceramics you can use and decorate your home or garden with. I enjoy exploring texture and colour in my work to produce unique statement pieces and bespoke tableware.
marmaladetime.co.uk Instagram @beetroot_girl
Yo Okada l Map 21
My print work ‘Snowy Mountains in Alaska’ is based on the scenery I saw for the first time on my long-awaited flight from London to Haneda (Japan) after the long COVID pandemic. In March 2022, due to the Russia-Ukraine war, I was unable to fly over Russia and had to change to a northern route through the North Pole. Although I felt sad, I was so impressed by the vast snowy scenery of the Alaskan mountains from the airplane window. Thus my theme is to transfer harsh reality into fantasy, creating artworks that mix figurative and abstract.
Instagram @yo.okada.76
Charlotte E Padgham l Map 13
Charlotte E Padgham is an experimental and sustainable artist and jewellery design/maker exploring themes of transition, manipulation, ephemerality and 'imperfection' using 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 explore the transference, intervention and preservation of the self.
9-lives.org.uk
Instagram @catts9lives
Elisabetta Pancucci l Map 10
My work includes several types of printmaking. I work in Drypoint, Screen printing, Monoprinting, Collagraph printing and Cyanotography. I am also a painter and collage artist and layering all these different mediums is a feature throughout my work. My art is often described as bold and evocative. My original artworks are available for sale and can also be purchased or ordered as reproduction Giclée prints in various sizes.
epancucci.co.uk
Instagram @epancucci
Carla Pengilly l Map 15
Working with nature in three locations has given me inspiration for making art. My garden, Swanage beach and the River Thames. I make Cyanotypes which are camera less photographic prints based on a variety of plant life including seaweed.This process was developed by John Herschel in 1842. The paper is coated with a light sensitive iron solution and then exposed to light. Once develop this results in lovely cyan and white images.
Along side using one of the original photographic processes I am creating series of imaginative digital photographic landscapes. The images are captured from wildlife found on the waterline of boats in the River Thames.
To add to the creative possibilities I use traditional marbling methods. For more information contact Brockley Open Studios
Britta Pohl l Map 31
I’m a figurative artist and much of my work explores urban and street scenes, with figures beginning to make their way into the compositions. I enjoy creating paintings, often in liminal spaces, which have a dreamlike quality, where reality blends with imagination. I try to evoke an atmosphere that feels both familiar and slightly strange or otherworldly. I enjoy playing with light and shadow and the emotion of colour. I find it fascinating how light can transform a scene, evoking different feelings or shadows draw your eye elsewhere.
My preferred medium is oil on board or canvas, but I also paint on different surfaces such as found pieces of wood in varying sizes.
brittapohl.com
Instagram @brittapohlart
Zoe Pott l Map 2
The Echo Chamber Is an evolving installation and assemblage of objects, relics, and made artworks. Natural found objects, manmade found objects and hand built ceramics are curated and arranged in harmony with one another. The current outcome is a museum like space where pieces can be viewed as a whole or individually.
Contact Brockley Open Studios for more info
Amelia Power l Map 26
My work starts with observation but memory and imagination form a crucial part of my process. I draw out the drama of the everyday aiming to make the familiar strange.
Plants almost always appear in my work: commonplace plant-life - weeds, supermarket bouquets and familiar pot plants appear alongside gardens, parks and landscapes.
I push the drama of my observed work to make invented scenarios which explore the ideas around around the uncanny. I continue to produce observational drawings and paintings, making studies from my surroundings which I develop imaginatively in the studio.
Past exhibitions have included The Lynn Painter Stainers Prize, The Discerning Eye, The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and The Ruth Borchard Prize.
I teach drawing and painting at The King’s Foundation Diploma Year.
ameliapower.com
Instagram @ameliampower
John Ronayne l Map 16
Landscapes, often local, with emphasis on sky and cloud formations.
johnronayne.art
Ellen Camilla Rose l Map 24
Ellen is a multidisciplinary artist, specialising in drawing and painting. Their work explores themes surrounding intimacy, connection and community in the domestic sphere. Their work is predominantly figurative and representational but expands into abstraction. They favour oil paint as a medium to manipulate over time and often apply many glazes of colour to create depth and atmosphere. For drawings and studies they favour ballpoint pen, watercolour pencils and watercolour paint.
My work invites viewers into intimate, domestic scenes. Hyper-saturated palettes create dream-like atmospheres, translucent layers result in otherworldly luminosity and moments of slippage untether us from reality as the painterly world expands beyond the familiar. I am searching for beauty and meaning within the familiar and the everyday, exploring the subtle gestures of intimacy between people and moments alone with ourselves. I want to capture the moments that shape us, that we gather to build identity and a sense of belonging.
ellencamillaroseart.com Instagram @ellcamroseart
Martin Rowson l Map 34
The original artwork of political cartoons and illustrations published in a variety of national newspapers and magazine, most notably The Guardian, plus book illustrations and some satirical sculpture.
martinrowson.com
Instagram @martinrowson1
Andrew Sleightholme l Map 8
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
Mimi Soan l Map 11
Her drawings often of a girl character with an animal companion have a distinctive illustrative style rendered on manila envelopes.
She has an inherent love of animals that 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
Lucia Tambini l Map 4
I’m a figurative painter working in oils and acrylics. I’m currently taking part in the Turps art school offsite programme. In the past I’ve worked with London subjects. Public transport, the streets. More recently I’ve been I’ve been taking inspiration from small ceramic ornaments. The sort we used to find on grandmas mantel piece. They often take on a life of their own. I’m also interested the relationship between these ‘characters’ how they interact or don’t interact.
Instagram @tamb.ourini
Ann Taylor l Map 12
Inspired by nature, especially landscapes and seascapes. Ann goes on location sketching and taking photographs, and then develops these ideas back in the studio. Uses a variety of media and techniques, building up layers to create abstract and semi-abstract paintings.
For more information contact Brockley Open Studios
Sophie Teasdale l Map 33
A documentary photographer based in London. Favouring shape, form, light and texture of spaces using analogue cameras. Through photography I am drawn to discovering more about a place’s history and current landscape. Often photographing quite moments, letting the spaces speak for themselves.
cargocollective.com/sophieteasdalephotography
Instagram @wellsatness
Naomi Thornton l Map 18
Naomi celebrates her love of colour through her abstract acrylic paintings, created using a variety of fluid art techniques. She also uses those same techniques to make jewellery, and other items such as coasters - some of these are original artworks in their own right, and others are adapted from prints of her paintings.
Instagram @rabbitholeacrylics
Laura Towers l Map 13
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
Xiomara Zontelli l Map 11
Abstract paintings and acrylics with some politically inspired pieces fuelled by current events.
zontelli.weebly.com Instagram @zontelli_art
