THE ARBOREALISTS: 40 WORKS

MARCH 22 - APRIL 19, 2025

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The Arborealists group founded in 2013 comprises 50 professional artists, who celebrate trees with their 40th exhibition and the first time the group's work can be viewed in Dorset.

The Arborealists' inaugural exhibition in 2014 at the Royal West of England Academy, Bristol attracted national media attention, with The Telegraph describing it as "spellbinding."
This new show of 40 selected works has been curated by the group's founder, artist and curator Tim Craven, and returning artist Paul Newman, Creative Director of Dorset Visual Arts based at Sherborne House.
The Arborealists span a wide geographic range, with members from across the UK and beyond. Despite their diverse practices, the group is united by a shared fascination with trees, which is reflected in their dramatic, contemplative, expressive, abstracted, hyperreal, and surreal artworks.
Collaborations with environmental organizations, including national park authorities, the National Trust, National Landscapes and the Woodland Trust, have produced nine publications with further site-specific projects on the horizon.
The seed for this collaboration was sown during our parkwide 2023 Arbor exhibition, and as we move from the winter months it heralds the arrival and colour of spring, demonstrating the enduring relevance of trees in contemporary art and their power to captivate and inspire.

Events
There are two Talks accompanying this exhibition, taking place in The Gallery
The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
The Story of The Arborealists

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Odyssey Postcards – Call To Artists 2024
3rd Odyssey Postcard Exhibition, 13th – 16th November 2024. Kindly hosted by Mandells Gallery, Elm Hill, Norwich, Norfolk, NR3 1HN. All works will be sold anonymously £40 each. PV Tuesday 12th November 5 – 8pm 2024, arrive early to avoid disappointment.

I’ve donated two of the above postcard sized paintings to this wonderful charity event.

If you are unable to attend the exhibition but would still like to support our fundraising you could buy a LUCKY DIP postcard artwork. You will be sent an original artwork selected at random after the exhibition has closed. One Lucky Dip £20, all money goes to Children with Cancer UK and Creative Odyssey CIC. No limit on number of Lucky Dips you can purchase

Forests, Woods and Groves Book – The Arborealists

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The Arborealists have published a new book on their work and ethos, in conjunction with an exhibition at Bastford Gallery and bookshop. I’m delighted to have some of my work featured along with a short piece of writing.
‘The Arborealists’ diverse and influential work highlights protected woodland’s history and changing landscapes, as well as illuminating the enchantment of ancient trees. Each member has developed their own artistic language, showcasing manifold applications in everything from scale, medium, style and philosophical approach. Featuring the artwork of Arborealist members including Tim Craven, Jemma Appleby, Alex Faulkner, Ann Blockley, Fiona McIntyre and many more, this beautiful book is a joyful celebration of the natural world.
As well as showcasing the diverse work of 36 artists, the book includes:
• An introduction to The Arborealists by Philippa Beale, a founding member.
• Information on some of the site-specific projects undertaken by the collective, written by the President of the Arborealists, Tim Craven.
• An exploration of the woodland at Staverton Park in Suffolk, written by author and woodland ecologist George Peterken.
In the last ten years, The Arborealists’ many exhibitions have carved them a strong national profile and widespread critical acclaim. Forests, Woods and Groves is perfect for anyone with an interest in spectacular art or a passion for the natural world.’ Philippa Beale

Forests, Woods and Groves
B.T. Batsford Bookshop and Gallery, 266
Hackney Road, London E2 7SJ
14 November - 15 December 2024

Private View 14 November.

This will be the 38th exhibition in which the Arborealists concentrate on trees and particularly the projects with which they have been involved with National Parks and sites of national interest. Areas include Exmoor and Dartmoor, Lady Park Wood, National Nature Reserve, Coleford , Wales, Staverton Thicks an ancient woodland and one of Suffolk’s best kept secrets, and also the Ancient Tree Project, documenting the most ancient trees across the British Isles.

Primarily an exhibition of paintings and printmaking the Arborealists will use this event to launch their third publication featuring essays by George Peterkin OBE, Tim Craven President of the Arborealist movement and Dr. Philippa Beale, amongst the writing and images by the Arborealist artists themselves.

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Mandell’s Gallery Norwich
Winter Show

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WINTER EXHIBITION 2024
Mandell’s Gallery Winter Show 2024 is a vibrant celebration of artistic diversity, showcasing the broad spectrum of creative expression that enriches our cultural landscape. The exhibition features a dynamic collection of works from a range of artists, each offering their unique perspective—ranging from bold abstracts to intricate figuratives.
Many of the featured artists are based in East Anglia, highlighting the eclectic talent flourishing in the region. This show blends a variety of styles and mediums, capturing the richness and individuality of the local art scene.

I am thrilled to be showing four recent works there this winter.

BEEP Painting Biennial 2024
I Won't Stay In A World Without Love

Exhibition Dates:
9th November – 21st December 2024 Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales, UK
Jan/Feb/Mar 2025 (exact dated tba)  at Aberystwyth School of Art

Preview: Sat 9th November 6pm at Elysium Gallery Swansea.

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Artists were able to submit up to two paintings based loosely on this year's musical theme. Out of all the applications, a long list was drawn up of over 340 artists who were then given the title of a song from a rescued 7" vinyl record to create a new painted cover for it.
The painted record covers each measuring 18cm x 18cm, and the music will form the main content of the exhibition.

My song title was a Nat King Cole classic:
‘Autumn Leaves’
Oil on wood panel
18 x 18cm
2024

The Quietness of Feeling: An Exploration of Trees through the Art of Benjamin Haughton and The Arborealists.
30 July 2024 - May 2025

Portsmouth Museum & Art Gallery

30 July 2024 - May 2025

The Arborealists have been invited to participate in an exhibition commemorating the centenary of the death of artist Benjamin Haughton (1865 – 1924) at Portsmouth City Museum & Art Gallery in July this year.

Trees were a major subject for Haughton and the double exhibition will be staged in 2 large, newly refurbished galleries as two separate elements.

In 1973 Haughton’s family donated over 300 paintings to the museum, and though they have been exhibited in various displays in the past, this exhibition will showcase more of his works than ever before, including some that have never been seen. As a contemporary foil, The Arborealists will illustrate how art practice has developed over the intervening years while demonstrating the continued significance of the subject.

Born in Cheshire in 1865, the son of a farmer, Haughton had no art training until he attended Bushey Art School in Hertfordshire at the age of 23. He lived alternatively in Tuscany, Kent and the West Country and knew celebrated artists William Nicholson and James Pryde. Haughton exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and Royal Society of British Artists becoming a member of the latter, and for a time he became associated with the Newlyn School of art and their plein-air style. His favoured subjects were quiet rural backwaters, woodland, trees ponds and meadows.

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RESIDENT I Artist Introduction -
Lara Cobden by McLean Sinclair-Parry - Director - Colstoun Arts

‘I had been transfixed by Lara's work for some time before inviting her to Colstoun to participate in our residency program. Her works are often on a smaller scale, they are intimate and feel like you are looking into something that you almost shouldn't be, a secret, a memory or something that Lara is showing you, and only you, with each of her works it feels as though she is giving a piece of herself. These are feelings that I had before meeting her, which were only further embellished by getting to know her over the course of a month in 2023.

Lara is an emotionally driven person (I mean this in a the most complimentary way), she makes decisions on the way she feels and how the consequences impact her. When she arrived I asked about her Journey, it took a winding path up the East Coast of England and even included a dip in the north sea, rather than the most direct route, which is probably the most indicative thing I can say about her character. Thoughtful, dedicated and patient the true beauty of Lara's experience like her Journey to Scotland was not realised with immediacy. Upon spending a month here Lara left with enough source material to last almost an entire year. creating a number of stunning works. Including the peaceful 'Where The Mist Roll In In Soft Whispers', 'Night Shift; Ghost Owl', 'Hermit' & 'Three Hares Under A Waning Moon'. There is a subtle poetry with how Lara titles her works which is indicative of her practice, intentional and meaningful.

Lara lived semi-nocturnally whilst at Colstoun appreciating a side of the East Lothian countryside that not many really ever have the opportunity to embrace. During midsummer the evening at Colstoun never descends into darkness, there is always activity, be it Hares, Badgers, Birds, Deer or Foxes the mischief is never ending, Lara's investment of time and effort to capture these scenes and to stay awake during the early hours of the morning repays itself many times over with the results. We are extremely lucky to have the opportunity to present a number of her works during our RESIDENT I show. Hopefully we can do justice in curation to repay her dedication.’

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Midsummer Mirage (Diary of a month at Colstoun)
An installation of 16 panels 21 x 15 cm each Oil and ink on wood panel (15 shown here)

RESIDENT I | Colstoun Arts Residency
2-11 August 2024

I am delighted to be part of this exciting inaugural exhibition of alumni artist residents at Colstoun. My time there last summer was extraordinary - I spent a month exploring and immersed… the land, the night, the woods, the sea, the moon, the roof, the sunrise, the haar mists, the walled gardens, the wildlife and birds, dawn and dusk… amongst many studies and paintings, I’ve produced a collection of small works, 16 A5 panels, that serve as a diary of my time at Colstoun, a ‘Midsummer Mirage’
Some of these works will be on show at Resident I
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RESIDENT I will consist of works from Raffael Bader, James Dearlove, Lara Cobden, Suhayla H, Marina Renee Cemmick, Joe Grieve, Angelique Nagovskaya & Jen Hitchings. introductions to the individual artists featured in this exhibition are below.

Annually Colstoun Arts invites 6-8 artists to spend a month or more at our home in Scotland producing a cohesive body of work inspired by the house and grounds. the variety of work created by our selected artists and the impact the seasons have played on their work is astonishing.

Colstoun Arts works with the artist to provide learning and development, introduce them to industry experts, and provide them with guidance. The Colstoun Experience goes well beyond the traditional residency, we welcome our artists to become part of our family, experiencing the highs and lows of normal life alongside us whilst also providing a dedicated secluded environment with top class studio facilities to push the boundaries of their practice. The exhibition merely serves as a conclusion on an experience we hope will stick with artists for the rest of their lives.
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This programme develops the careers of a handful of artists each year in a meaningful way, it also provides an opportunity for established artists to take a break from their practice. It is hoped that over time the alumni of this programme will begin to help one another and provide meaningful contributions to Landscape, Nature Inspired and British Art.

The residency programme is very relaxed and follows no strict format meaning that the approaches to time spent at Colstoun have been varied. Artists like Lara Cobden have created countless studies leading to an entire collection of work based around the Colstoun landscape at night, whereas artists like Marina Renee Cemmick and Angelique Nagovskaya have spent time understanding themselves and exploring technical aspects of their practice much more.

Delighted to take part in ENGLAND IS A FOREST 14-16 June 2024
SLUICE (Vernacular) The Minories Gallery Colchester

England is a Forest is a collaborative and experimental illustrated forest curated by SMALL WORKS. It is a virtual map and exhibition, with its physical debut at Sluice [Vernacular] Expo at The Minories, Colchester, June 2024.

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Artwork detail by @martinclarksonstudios

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WORKS ON PAPER 6 | BLUE SHOP GALLERY

Over the moon to have 10 works on paper selected for the upcoming WoP6 - more news coming soon…

Gifts from Alder The Water King Ink on Watercolour Paper 19 x 28 cm
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The Violet Hour

The Peace of Wild Things


When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

‘A Sip on the Wing’ Oil on Panel 85 cm x 59.5 2023

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The Arborealists and Associates Annual Exhibition
AT THE WATER’S EDGE
4 - 14 November 2023
PV 4 November 2-5pm

Pie Factory Margate
5 Broad Street Margate, CT9 1EW

The second Arborealist Conference will be held in conjunction with the exhibition at Turner Contemporary
Friday 3 November 5-8pm

At the Water's Edge brings together a contemporary response to trees and water by artists who live in urban and rural environments. These painters and printmakers are associated with two contemporary organisations: @the_arborealists and @urbancontemporariesgroup

At the Water's Edge celebrates their shared love of trees and the vital role they can play in all our lives, in terms of our Well-Being, Identity and Sociability, and our understanding of Ecology and Climatic Change. As the author Hermann Hesse observed: When we have learned how to listen to trees, then our thoughts' brevity, quickness, and childlike hastiness achieve an incomparable joy.
At a time of international anxiety about the existential threats of the effects of global warming, the role of nature and trees in the United Kingdom has never been more pertinent. It has been estimated that we need to plant two billion trees, in an attempt to avert disaster. This exhibition thus aims, with a political slant, to raise awareness of the importance of trees in all our lives.

Jemma Appleby | Richard Bavin | Philippa Beale I John Blandy | Rory Brooke I. Andrew Carnie I Claire Cansick | Stella Carr | Frank Creber I Perienne Christien | Lara Cobden | Tim Craven I Mike Dodd I Gethin Evans | Stephanie Fawbert I Ferha Farooqui | Paul Finn | Julie Held | David Hayward | Jane Human | Abi Kremer | Natasha Lien | Sarah Medway | Fiona Mcintyre | Paul Newman | Caroline Poole | Angela Rumble / Nahem Shoa | Kevin Tole | Grant Watson I Jacqui Wedlake-Hatton | David Wiseman

Curated by Angela Rumble and Philippa Beale

AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE | YARDSTICK GALLERY| LEAMINGTON SPA

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Yardstick Gallery
16 Hamilton Terrace
Holly Walk
Leamington Spa, CV32 4LY

AS FAR AS THE EYE
An exhibition of paintings, drawings and photographs of landscapes: urban, rural, coastal, imaginary...
02 - 30.09.2023
Yardstick Gallery
16 Hamilton Terrace
Holly Walk
Leamington Spa CV32 4LY
Online at www.yardstickgallery.com
CAROLYN BLAKE, PAINTING
KATE BOUCHER, DRAWINGS
LARA COBDEN, PAINTING
JOEY DAVEY, PHOTOGRAPHY CAITRIONA DUNNETT, PHOTOGRAPHY
LORENZO TONTI, PHOTOGRAPHY KEITH WILSON, RUA, PAINTING
Introducing
BORJA MORONTA
IONA CERAMICS

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In My Hand a Forest Lies Asleep
Georgia Beaumont Sophie Charalambous Lara Cobden
Bobbye Fermie Jake Garfield Katherine Jones Ian Thompson

A gala of art and design in collaboration with
Rupert Bevan and The Jacksons.
At 22 St Lukes Mews W11 1DF and at 1 and 5 All Saints Road

Exhibition continues 10-4pm  26th May - 2nd June
Weekends and Bank Holidays: Closed
Open by appointment 5th-9th June

‘Where the Mists Roll in in Soft Whispers’ Oil on Canvas 100cm x 100cm

Colstoun Arts - Artist Residency June-July 2023

I was so privileged and grateful to be invited to spend a midsummer month as Artist in Residence at Colstoun House in East Lothian, Scotland.
The solitary nature of the Colstoun Artist Residency offer artists freedom, time and space - such precious commodities in these difficult times, and I fully embraced in my time on the magical Colstoun Estate.
I look forward to meeting and exhibiting with other Colstoun Alumni later this year… news on that to follow…



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Arcadia for All? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now
26 April - 29 July 2023
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds
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Surprised, honoured and grateful to be amongst such a fantastic line up of landscape artists, so many I’ve admired for years, what a privilege
Huge thanks to the curators Judith Tucker & Geraint Evan and to Laura Claveria for coordinating it all.

Arcadia for All? Rethinking Landscape Painting Now
26 April - 29 July 2023
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Parkinson Building, University of Leeds
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Is landscape wild or cultivated? Is landscape urban or green? Is landscape going or gone?
Is landscape ours or theirs?
This exhibition challenges our expectations of landscape painting. It rethinks landscape in the 21st century - a time of climate crisis, a post COVID-19 world, a post-colonial and capitalist era.
The exhibition has been guest curated by Judith Tucker, Senior Lecturer at the School of Design, University of Leeds and Geraint Evans, Pathway Leader MA Painting at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London.
There will be a catalogue with essays by Rosemary Shirley and Judith Tucker and
Geraint Evans designed by @i_d_projects

David Ainley | Hurvin Anderson | lain Biggs | Louise Bristow | Hannah Brown | Simon Callery | Lara Cobden | Kimathi Donkor | Sam Douglas | Natalie Dowse | Geraint Evans | Mark Fairnington | Andrew Grassie | Dan Hays | Lubaina Himid | Barbara Howe | Matthew Krishanu | Paula MacArthur | Elizabeth Magill | Cara Nahaul | Christopher Orr | Rebecca Partridge | Julian Perry | Narbi Price | Carol Rhodes | Greg Rook | George Shaw | Benet Spencer | Clare Thatcher | Judith Tucker | Phoebe Unwin | Joanna Whittle

Visions of Healing

Finissage Event - 28th March for the to view the work and meet the artists
Cavendish Venues | 44 Hallam St | London | W1W 6JJ
5 - 8pm | Tuesday | 28.03.23

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Ava Haggas | Genevieve Leavold | Lara Cobden | Lorna Sinclair
Mary West | Michele Fletcher | Ofelia Botella | Olivia Mansfield
Simona Orentaite | Suhaylah H. | Yiwei Xu
Hallam Conference Centre | 44 Hallam St | London | W1W 6JJ
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Visions of Healing brings together 11 women artists: Ava Haggas, Genevieve Leavold, Lara Cobden, Lorna Sinclair, Michele Fletcher, Mary West, Ofelia Botella, Olivia Mansfield, Suahylah H, Simona Orentaite and Yiwei Xu. A diversly talented group of female painters, each of whom visually manifest the healing potential of immersion in the rich wilderness. Drift through drawn and painted depictions of the soothing, tranquil, transcendent wonders of our natural world, of Gaia, of Mother Nature.

Stylistically unified through impressionist and expressionist ideals, with symbolism dappled throughout the exhibition as the sun shines through a forest canopy, each artist intuitively weaves a naturalistic connection, and responds to rhythms of the natural world through process. Journey a morphing multimedia landscape with recurring themes of memory, creation, transcendence, and harmony with nature rife in the undergrowth of Visions of Healing.

London Trees
An exhibition about the vital subject of trees in London
by members of
the Arborealists and Urban Contemporaries & guest artists

Lauderdale House,Highgate Hill, Waterlow Park,London, N6 5HG
29th March to 24th April 2023
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PRIVATE VIEW - WEDNESDAY 29TH MARCH 2023 – 7.30 to 9.30pm.


This exhibition is a partnership between two distinct groups of artists, The Arborealists and The Urban Contemporaries and presents a diverse range of paintings, prints and drawings on the rich and vital subject of the trees of London. Each artist responds to the subject and explores and articulate ideas about trees, encapsulating many varied interpretations. Some observe the way trees can be street architecture and urban decoration, others explore the ecological dimensions and trees as the ‘lungs of the city’. A number of the artists involved depict trees in opposition to or in harmony with their surroundings and as depositories of history.

Trees sustain our existence. At a time of international anxiety about the existential threats of the effects of global warming, the role of nature and trees in the nation’s capital city has never been more pertinent.

Trees have enjoyed a long and significant legacy in British art history as part of the landscape tradition and. the subject has attracted such artists as Thomas Gainsborough, John Constable, JW Inchbold, Harold Gilman, Graham Sutherland, Paul Nash, David Inshaw and George Shaw. This exhibition aims to raise awareness of the importance of trees in the lives of London’s citizens.

The artists who have contributed their work towards this exhibition offer thought-provoking contemplations of trees in the capital, and the, predominantly, figurative nature of the works make them accessible to all audiences.

Our E-Catalogue can be found here: www.flipsnack.com/CAED5BDD75E/london-tr…

Artists:

The Urban Contemporaries Group and guest artists - Rory Brooke, Alexandra Blum, Frank Creber, Ferha Farooqui, Annette Fernando, Michael Johnson, Alex Pemberton, Melissa Scott-Miller, Jane Smith, Stewart Taylor and Grant Watson.

The Arborealists Group - Philippa Beale, John Blandy, Lara Cobden, Tim Craven, Julie Held, Abi Kremer, Natasha Lien, Angela Rumble, Nahem Shoa, Jacqui Wedlake-Hatton and David Wiseman.

If you would like more information or to attend one of the Private Views, please contact Ferha Farooqui or Frank Creber. They can be reached via:

Ferha Farooqui
ferhafarooqui39@googlemail.com
07906543135
https://ferhafarooqui.weebly.com

Frank Creber
frankcreber@gmail.com
07984016326
http://www.frankcreber.space

Bermondsey Project Space

A SENSE OF PLACE

Survival
13 December – 7 January 2023

Closed for Christmas
23 December until 2 January 2023

Curated by Philippa Beale

This is the last of three thematically linked exhibitions curated by Philippa Beale responding to the concept of A Sense of Place. The challenge to the artists’ imagination in the 2020s is to profoundly question our values by asking how does humankind imagine its place on the planet? How can the artist evolve ways of living and working with ourselves and with nature? This current exhibition encompasses a diverse range of responses to the central idea, including distance, politics, and imagination. The exhibition at Bermondsey Project Space contains work by internationally celebrated artists studying why certain places hold special meaning for them.

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I’m excited to present my upcoming solo show

INCANTATIONS OF LIGHT

5 - 26 November 2022

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IRVING CONTEMPORARY
28 Essex Street Oxford OX4 3AW

Irving Contemporary is delighted to present INCANTATIONS OF LIGHT, a solo show of new paintings by contemporary artist Lara Cobden, opening at our Oxford gallery on Saturday 5th November (Private View 3pm to 6pm), and continuing until Saturday 26th November (Closing drinks, 3pm to 5pm).

Lara Cobden (b.1971) is a British painter living and working in Norwich, Norfolk. Lara graduated with a degree in Painting at Brighton University in 1996, and then spent eleven years in Ireland before relocating to East Anglia. Predominately a landscape painter, focusing on memory and sense of place, her work is a response to the natural world around her.

She is a member of The Arborealists, a group of artists specialising in the art of trees, who exhibit widely across Europe. In 2019-20 Lara completed a year on the Turps Banana Correspondence Course, a highly regarded programme of one-to-one online mentoring.

Lara's work has been exhibited in the UK and internationally and she has been a recipient of a number of awards, including the Parker Harris Mentorship Prize at the 2018 Wells Arts Contemporary Art Awards, 2nd place in the 2019 Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize, the Chair’s Purchase Prize in the 2019 ING Discerning Eye exhibition, and most recently she was a finalist in the 2020 John Moores Painting Prize, at the Walker Gallery, Liverpool.

INCANTATIONS OF LIGHT features a collection of recent paintings on gesso panel, linen, and paper, mostly made between the spring and autumn of 2022. Spellbound by those fragments of time where light transcends the everyday, the mundane, and an everyday scene is elevated to one of significance, Lara's work is an attempt to collect these experiences - a fleeting moment, light and shadows, ephemeral and yet enduring. These landscapes dance between reality and dream, drawing on nature and invention, fact and fiction.

Falling Without Ever Landing
Solo Show
Liliya Gallery
158 Putney High Street London SW15 1RS
Opening 4 October 2022
PV 4 October 2022 6PM - 8.30PM

The Architecture of Trees
21 October 2022

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The Architecture of Trees
including member artists from The Arborealists 21 October. Private view Friday 21 October 5-8pm.
Arborealists: Jemma Appleby, Buckmaster and French, Claire Cansick, Lara Cobden, Tim Craven, Alex Egan, Fiona McIntyre, Nahem Shoa.
Gallery East artists: Perienne Christian, Kate Giles, Jane Human, Caroline Poole.​
In this coming exhibition of over 50 works we explore the architectural personality of the trees we live with in our landscape. We ask what it is in the natural design - form, colour, pattern that draws us to represent, protect or preserve a particular tree, grove, orchard, copse, clump, thicket.

Trees and the Sacred
28 April - 28 May 2022

The Arborealists and Guests

Norwich Cathedral | The Hostry | The Close | Norwich | NR1 4DH

An exhibition of fifty painters
Curated by Lara Cobden, Claire Cansick, Alex Egan

Introduced by Tim Craven, founder of The Arborealists

‘Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.’

Hermann Hesse

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CANE & DAVIS
present
THE SHADOWS IN BETWEEN

A solo show of contemporary landscape paintings
By Lara Cobden

12 MARCH - 9 APRIL

Lara Cobden’s first solo show with Cane & Davis brings together a selection of works created between Spring 2020 and 2022.
Cobden (b.1971, London, UK) is a contemporary painter based in Norfolk, UK who paints in oil, acrylic ink and watercolour and this show features her works on gessoed panel, canvas and paper.

‘The Shadows In Between is a collection of paintings made between Spring 2020 and 2022. This body of work is a composite of part true, part embellished, tales of experience and hearsay and intuitive responses to my surroundings over the past two years.

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www.irvingcontemporary.com/incandescent

5 November 2021 - 16 January 2022

INCANDESCENT: Irving Contemporary’s first online group exhibition, featuring the work of sixteen artists selected by Irving Contemporary’s owner and curator Vanessa Lacey.

The artists featured in INCANDESCENT are:

Adam Hedley | Alexis Soul-Gray | Alice Neave | Anja Niedring | Daisy Clarke | David Abbott | Ella Clocksin | Gemma Petrie | Kate Boucher | Kate Sherman | Kate Shooter | Lara Cobden | Lucia Jones | Lucy Spanyol | Rosey Prince | Sarah Bold

It’s a diverse and personal selection of work by these brilliant artists, conceived as a glowing light to accompany us as we head into the darker days of winter, full of colour, brightness and brilliance.


Delighted to be taking part Irving Contemporary online winter group show.

The show is open on the gallery website at 5pm on 5 November until 16 January 2022.

All enquiries to gallery owner Vanessa Lacey: 07969 673349

5% of all sales are donated to the work of the Trussell Trust, which offers a lifeline to those impacted by food poverty and rising living costs.

Petrichor
15.10.21 - 21.11.21

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Sophie Mei Birkin · Lara Cobden· Michele Fletcher · Beatrice Hasell-McCosh · Melissa Jarram · Amber Khan · Lucy Neish · Paula Turmina
Petrichor (noun) :
a distinctive smell, usually described as earthy, pleasant, or sweet, that frequently
accompanies the first rain after a long period of warm, dry weather.
Michele Fletcher
Revenant
Oil on Linen 50 x 60 cm
For enquiries: info@liliya.uk
Since the Stone Age, our relationship to the natural world has been explored through
art, helping us to connect with
our surroundings and inspire creativity. Today, however, it is increasingly complex, with the climate emergency impacting us all, some artists have decided
to use their art to voice concern. Others have used their work to emphasise the connection and admiration for the world around us. Petrichor presents a selection of work by a group of contemporary artists who invite us to consider our relationship to nature in new and emboldening ways.
Liliya Art Gallery 158 Putney High Street London SW15 1RS

In a break from traditional landscapes - with vistas and horizons to ground the viewer - the works selected contain a mediative quality, encouraging the viewer to get lost in the experience of viewing - just like the experience of losing oneself in nature. From abstract paintings of flora and fauna, to somatic sculptures of fruit, every artist embraces and infuses their own personal experience of nature into their work. They call for us to appreciate and admire the beauty and mystery of natural forms, shapes and lines, engaging us in an exploratory and reflective pro- cess of looking.
In this age of the Anthropocene and extinction, our connection to nature should be celebrated. Art is one of the greatest tools to initiate discussion and create change, offering an entry point into complex issues that affect us daily. It is our hope that this exhibition will provide an opportunity to both celebrate the beauty and complexity of the natural world, and to consider our power and responsibility to protect it.

Going out on a Limb
Laura Gasciogne meets the Arborealists
An interview in Country Life Magazine 29.09.2021

Celebrating Trees
1 - 13 November 2021
St Margaret’s Church
Norwich


The exhibition at St Margaret’s will show paintings, sculpture and photography by established artists from Norfolk and beyond – as well as some pictures by children, as the future of the planet is so vital to them – to celebrate the beauty of trees.

St Margaret’s Church has now been re-booked for Nov 1- Nov 13, 2021 for the exhibition.

Private View on Nov 3rd will be opened by the well known nature writer Richard Mabey

www.celebratingtrees.org.uk/

Silent Disco: Group Show curated by Graham Crowley Greystone Industries, Wickham Market, UK

29 August - 10 September 2021

‘A Silent Disco is one
in which all the participants are all listening to a track of their
choosing on head phones - ie. all dancing to a different tune. Kill
the DJ’ - Graham Crowley
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SILENT DISCO
29 August - 10 September
By Appointment Only
Greystone Industries
Wickham Market
Suffolk
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Edwin Aitken•Matilda Beavan•Terry Bond•Kate Bowen•Graham Chorlton•Lara Cobden•Graham Crowley•Sally Crowley•Rosalind Davis•Karen Densham•Rob Dunt•Geraint Evans•James Faure Walker•Sam Jackson•Robin Mason•Clare Mitten•Kate Murdoch•Ruth Murray•Gilbert Sills•Andy Stahl•John Stark•Kate Terry•Josh Thomson•Judith Tucker•Dina Varpahovsky•Joanna Whittle•Simon Willems•Glynn Williams

Video interview with Rob Dunt - ArtTop10.com
LARA COBDEN - Artist Interview at SILENT DISCO curated by Graham Crowley
m.youtube.com/watch?v=fBNhWX_SlmI

SILENT DISCO: Curator Tour by Graham Crowley
youtu.be/mFQQfM_xSUA

Cley 2021 nowhere

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This year the remarkable North Norfolk Exhibition Projects celebrates 21 years with the 20th exhibition, intended for 2020 and realised this summer.

Spread across 2 venues –

Saint Margaret’s Church, Holt Road, Cley-next-the-Sea, Norfolk NR25 7TT

Norfolk Wildlife Trust, Cley Marshes Visitor Centre, Coast Rd, Cley next the Sea NR25 7SA

The 20th exhibition, curated by Amanda Geitner, features work by 60 artists and includes painting, sculpture, textiles, photography and ceramics – a marvellous range of work addressing themes as diverse as the migration of birds, the movement of the stars and the pure pleasure that can be found in colour and form. Amanda Geitner says ‘ nowhere embraces work that signals our psychological spaces, exhibited here temporarily, but ultimately belonging everywhere and nowhere – work that brings our attention firmly back to the now here’

This was a wonderful surprise and a beautiful, poignant text written by author Jeff Young, in response to my painting in the JMPP:

In a new series commissioned exclusively for us by the John Moores Painting Prize, playwright and Costa prize-shortlisted author Jeff Young presents a new text on one of this year’s selected artworks: Lara Cobden’s A Year of Ghost Wishes…

www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2021/04/jmp…

Jeff Young is a dramatist for theatre, radio and TV. His memoir, Ghost Town: a Liverpool Shadowplay, was published in 2020 by Little Toller and was shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards.

Lara Cobden is a figurative painter living and working in Norfolk. Her oil on linen, A Year of Ghost Wishes, was selected for the John Moores Painting Prize 2020, and ‘is an attempt to convey a year in the life of such a tree during 2019, and the hopeful/hopeless act of leaving a wish.’

This new text has been commissioned by the John Moores Painting Prize and is part of a creative-critical series published exclusively by The Double Negative during April and May. Writers were given free rein to respond to any painting or paintings from the 2020 exhibition, and in any style, tone or format that they wished to use.

The John Moores Painting Prize provides a platform for artists to inspire, disrupt and challenge the British painting art scene. Established in 1957, it is the UK’s longest running painting competition. For over 60 years the John Moores has brought to Liverpool the best contemporary painting from across the UK and has over that time, developed a legacy of supporting artists at all stages in their careers – undiscovered, emerging and established. All entries are judged anonymously. The John Moores 2020 jurors were: Hurvin Anderson, Alison Goldfrapp, Jennifer Higgie, Gu Wenda and Michelle Williams Gamaker.

Forces of Nature: group show (19 June – 31 August 2021)

www.glyndebourne.com/events/art-and-exh…

The Forces of Nature group show is Glyndebourne’s first all-women exhibition. Bringing together new works on paper and paintings, the show explores wo(man’s) relationship with nature, our fascination with its beauty and forms, its power and our fears about its current degradation.
The exhibiting artists include Lesley Birch, Kate Boucher, Lara Cobden, Linda Felcey, Michele Fletcher, Jelly Green, Melanie Goemans, Tyga Helme, Kathryn Johnson, Rosie Lascelles, Kathryn Maple, Victoria Sebag and Jayne Sandys-Renton. Also included are a selection of photographs of Glyndebourne gardens by pioneering émigré photographer Ilse Bing from 1937.

New show coming March 2021 - Out of the Blue
& Includes Ruth Bunnewell, Lara Cobden, Jane Lewis RWS, Martin Laurance, Shanti Panchal Hon RBA, RWS, Sula Rubens ARWS.

www.galleryeast.co.uk/coming-up.html

So thrilled to be invited to chat with Ocki from Blue Shop Cottage.

www.instagram.com/tv/CMKpFd_F9fI/?igshi…

We chatted about trees, the Arborealists, residencies and our mutual love of Kerry, Ireland...

Works on Paper 3 at Blue Shop Cottage

www.blueshopcottage.com/shop

Delighted to be part of ‘Works On Paper 3’, Blue Shop Cottage online store. with over 200 works from 70 different artists worldwide.

Virtual Tour is now open!

www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/jmpp/john-m…

It is an absolute thrill to announce that I have a painting selected for this years John Moores Painting Prize.

The John Moores Painting Prize brings together the best in contemporary British painting right now. Supporting artists from all over the UK – whether they’re undiscovered, emerging or established in their careers – the prize provides a platform for artists to inspire, disrupt and challenge the British painting art scene today. All entries are judged anonymously over a two-stage selection process by our panel of judges. The competition will culminate in exhibition held at the Walker Art Gallery In partnership with John Moores Painting Prize Trust. The exhibition will be held at the Walker Art Gallery on 12 February 2021, running until 27 June 2021.

www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/jmpp/exhibi…

So pleased to have a painting selected by Tabish Khan, aka The London Art Critic, for this years 2020 ING Discerning Eye exhibition.

Completely held online this year, the link below will take you to the six curators and their individual selections.
www.ingdeexhibition.org/exhibition


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Being With Trees

Gustavo Bacarisas Gallery
Casemates Square
Gibraltar

4 March - 30 April 2021

The Arborealists in association with the Lloyds of London Art Group and The Fine Art Society

www.arborealists.com/exhibitions/being-…

The Narrative of Trees
Gallery East Arborealist exhibition
The Narrative of Trees - 28 November 2020
Gallery East
Woodbridge
28 November 2020 

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12th August 2020 - 10th October 2020
The Arborealists are a group of professional artists, from across southern England, who share the rich and versatile subject of the tree. Over the past two years they have been visiting ancient woodland sites on Exmoor and Dartmoor to produce works in response to the landscape.
Exploring the National Parks
The Arborealists worked in partnership with the Exmoor and Dartmoor National Park Authorities to explore the landscape. The resulting artworks depict many of the parks’ most beautiful and iconic spots.

They include Culbone and Horner Wood, Cloutsham, Wilmersham Common and Simonsbath, on Exmoor. And, Wistmans and White Wood, Burrator Reservoir, Black-a-Tor Copse and Hawson Cross on Dartmoor.

Connecting with Nature
Many of the artists have been mobilised to explore the subject matter of the tree due to the increasing disconnect between people and the natural world. At a time when the news is often filled with reports about environmental destruction, they propose that a personal re-connection to nature is vital in order to awaken and mobilise change. They demonstrate that trees still have a great relevance in contemporary art and retain their power to move us as a vital element in our landscape.
The charge for this exhibition is Give What You Think.

Dates and locations
The Museum of Somerset
Wednesday, 12th August 2020 - Saturday, 10th October 2020, 10:00 - 5:00

So happy to hear that my painting Flipside of Nowhere has been selected for this years Beep Biennial Exhibition 2020

m.youtube.com/watch?v=xWAZbg7pJf8

Exhibition to be held in Elysium Gallery in Swansea; Wales this October.

Launched in 2012, BEEP (biennial exhibition of painting) is a contemporary international painting prize based in Swansea, Wales.

BEEP supports imaginative and vibrant practice in contemporary painting.

BEEP returns on *3rd October - 7th November 2020 with an expanded programme of satellite painting led exhibitions, residencies and symposiums around the main BEEP show in partnership with Swansea and South Wales galleries and arts organisations.

The main Beep Painting Prize exhibition will take place at the new elysium gallery and its next door neighbour Liquid Gallery in Swansea City centre at 210 & 211 High Street.
The main prize is £1000 and a solo exhibition with elysium gallery in 2021. The Friends of the Glynn Vivian will sponsor the Welsh Painter's Prize and elysium gallery will sponsor the Peoples Prize.

Beep is not-for-profit, artist led project run by elysium gallery
www.elysiumgallery.com
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Very excited to be selected as one of the final 30 for the Castlegate Art Prize with my painting A Year of Ghost Wishes.

A newly launched competition which supports the mental health charity Young Minds by donating the entry fee to the charity.

The inaugural exhibition of finalists’ works at Castlegate House, and the announcement of the first Castlegate Prize winner, has been postponed from May 2 to September 12 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

All the finalists’ work can be viewed on the prize website: thecastlegateprize.co.uk, link below.

Held in aid of the Young Minds, the UK’s leading charity for young people’s mental health, so far The Castlegate Prize has raised more than £12,000.

Due to the current situation, the winner of the Castlegate Prize will now be announced on Saturday 12th September 2020.
www.castlegatehouse.co.uk/paintings-for…

www.castlegatehouse.co.uk/exhibitions/t…

www.edp24.co.uk/news/two-norwich-artist…

The Arborealists Exhibition at the National Memorial Arboretum Alrewas Staffordshire - 6th December 2019 – 29th March 2020

Delighted to have my painting Remnants of Hope I on show at the NMA with The Arborealists.
The Arborealists: An international group of artists who all take trees as their inspiration. Working in a range of styles, the artists each respond to nature in a distinctive and personal manner, reflecting the diversity of trees across the globe. The work of The Arborealists is as varied as the subjects they depict, but each artist is linked by a shared love of nature's giants.

www.thenma.org.uk
www.thenma.org.uk/whats-here/exhibition…

UPDATE: 16.11.2019
At the artists preview evening of the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition I was presented with the Chairman’s Purchase Prize for my painting Nowhere Pond which was selected for the exhibition by Sir Tim Rice.

The exhibition is at the Mall Galleries, London, from Thursday 16 November until Sunday 24 November 2019.

The annual exhibition is a show of small works chosen either by invitation or by submission. From over 3000 entries a total of 150 artists were independently selected by six prominent figures from different areas of the art world: two artists, two collectors and two critics. The curators this year were artists Gill Button and Charlotte Hodes, collectors Kwame Kwei-Armah and Tim Rice, and critics John Penrose and Louis Wise,

discerningeye.org/exhibition/intro.php

My painting ‘Nowhere Pond’ has been selected for the ING Discerning Eye 2019 Exhibition
14 - 24 November at Mall Galleries London

Really happy to have a piece selected as one of 150 artists from over 3000 entries this year. Not sure yet who of the six curators selected it so will be a nice surprise on the PV night!

The Discerning Eye annual exhibition is a show of small works independently selected by six prominent figures from different areas of the art world: two artists, two collectors and two critics.
The selectors choose both publicly submitted works and works by personally invited artists. Each selector's section is hung separately to give each its own distinctive identity. The impression emerges of six small exhibitions within the whole.
It provides an unusual opportunity for works by lesser-known artists to be hung alongside contributions from internationally recognised names.

Making a Mark blog on ING Discerning Eye entries and selected artists:

makingamark.blogspot.com/2019/09/ing-di…

Very honoured to have a painting selected for the Westmorland Landscape Prize.
The exhibition will open on 14 September to 10 November 2019.
For further details of opening times and events, please visit
www.rheged.com/event/westmorland-landsc…

BACKGROUND
The Westmorland Landscape Prize is a national call to artists who are inspired by the landscape of the UK. Conceived and developed by Westmorland, the Prize aims to document, celebrate and interrogate our relationship with the landscape. The selection panel will be looking for works which reach beyond the aesthetic, stimulating thinking and debate about the way in which we exist alongside, as part of, or sometimes in spite of our landscape.
John Stokes, Arts Manager of Westmorland says: “We are a family business, whose original motorway service area grew out of the Dunning family farm in Tebay, Cumbria, when the M6 was built through our land. Everything we do today reflects those beginnings and we want our visitors to feel that when they pass through that they have arrived somewhere, not just anywhere and catch a glimpse of the place and landscape they are in. We are looking forward to launching The Westmorland Prize this year and feel passionately about capturing the beauty of our landscape which has been so important to our businesses success.”

SELECTORS
The exhibition will selected by eminent individuals from the art world including artists, curators, writers and gallerists who all have a broad knowledge and awareness of contemporary artists working in the UK today. Further details will be available shortly.

Cherie Federico
AESTHETICA MAGAZINE

Anne Desmet RA
ARTIST

Hazel Stone
ARTS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, FORESTRY COMMISSION ENGLAND

THE EXHIBITION
The exhibition will be hosted by the Westmorland’s Rheged Centre, near Penrith in Cumbria. In the spacious Gallery on the top floor, they host a changing programme of exhibitions every year which have a connection with our Cumbria home. Some exhibitions break the bounds of the Gallery and take over the centre, so you may find art in unexpected places. Each exhibition is curated with a leading cultural organisation or a creative community. This strong relationship with artists means we can show creativity at its most diverse, as well as reflecting life in the landscape.

The Arborealists and Guests: the Art of the Tree at The Young Gallery
2 - 24 August 2019

A new exhibition at The Young Gallery in Salisbury, will present the work of 40 Arborealists and nine guest artists.

The Arborealists and Guests: the Art of the Tree, curated by Peter Riley, features artists including Jemma Appleby, Philippa Beale and Fiona McIntyre among the local artists engraver Howard Phipps and Paul Newman.

The Arborealists were founded in 2013 by artist and then curator at Southampton City Art Gallery Tim Craven following the seminal exhibition Under the Greenwood: Picturing the British Tree, staged at St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery, Lymington.

The movement has members from Wales and the borders to East Anglia and London and every southern county from Kent to Cornwall.

Outposts include Yorkshire, France and Ireland and has already staged 18 exhibitions to acclaim in the UK and Museums in France where Philippa Beale was the curator, more are planned for the future. Philippa Beale also contributed 3 illustrated publications to compliment the exhibitions.

The Arborealists and Guests at The Young Gallery will be open every day during the exhibition, 10am to 5pm.

It runs from Saturday until August 24.

Entrance is free and the works will also be for sale.



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"If we opened people up we'd find landscapes” (Agnés Varda)

Ruth Bunnewell / Lara Cobden / Katarzyna Coleman / Alex Egan Katie Falcon / Emilie Houssart / Malca Shotten

4th June – 27th July 2019

Fairhurst Gallery is proud to present a group show of all female landscape artists. With shifting political landscapes happening around the world, galleries and museums are re-assessing the underrepresentation of women artists. Highlighting this last year was Tacita Dean’s unprecedented triple exhibition across the Royal Academy, National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery. The forthcoming exhibi- tion at The Fairhurst Gallery seeks to specifically examine the genre of landscape art from the perspective of 7 contemporary artists working in and around Norfolk today.
As a genre, landscape art has particularly strong roots in the past as well as being an acknowledged source of inspiration and a guiding force in contemporary think- ing. Paving the way in the Victorian era, female landscape artists actively helped shape the art scene, despite the odds stacked against them in comparison to their male counterparts. “To my mind, the most fascinating and under-researched examples of dissenting landscapes derive from women; kicking against the white, landed, male observer’s supremacy. Women were excluded from the chief con- texts of mid-eighteenth-century landscape representation: effectively locked out of land-ownership, the military, the Royal Academy and Royal Society, and the male aristocrat’s political experience and power. Women were discouraged from accessing sublime elevated viewpoints, leaving their coaches, or getting their boots muddy.” Rachel Hewitt. (Lecturer in Creative Writing and Deputy Director of the New- castle Centre for Literary Arts, Newcastle University)
The modern day explorers represented in the Fairhurst exhibition all approach the practice in different ways, some braving all weathers to work ‘en plein air’ or in- vestigating the early morning with a flashlight, some rendering scenes from their memory/imagination or documenting the eroding coastline and urban scenes. They are all connected by a single thread - the ever-changing landscape - their daring curiosity and technical virtuosity leading to artworks of great depth and beauty. The invitation into these works might be a lonely tree, a sunlit beach, a broken lamppost, an industrial warehouse, an illuminated greenhouse, a fire on the shore of a lake. It might be “... a particular arrangement of lines or forms that speak an unexpectedly familiar language. There’s no need to have been there to feel someone else’s place.” Fiona Stafford (Fellow & Tutor in English Literature, Somerville Col- lege, University of Oxford)
Nina Fowler, assistant Director at the Fairhurst Gallery says: “The title of the ex- hibition "If we opened people up we'd find landscapes” is a quote from the film- maker Agnés Varda (1928-2019) a French film director, photographer and artist. Varda, whose recent death has been deeply mourned, made films with a distinctive experimental style focused on achieving documentary realism while addressing feminist issues. We chose this quote on which to base the exhibition, for it’s emotive, poetic provocations which lead us to think about a more unconventional perception of landscape, what it means to us and how we respond to it.”

Private View – Saturday 1st June 2019, 12 - 4pm
The gallery, on Bedford Street, is open Tuesday to Saturday, 9.30am to 5.30pm with additional viewings available by appointment. For more information visit gallery.fairhurstgallery.co.uk/upcoming…

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Stunned and delighted to have been awarded 2nd Prize in the Lynn Painter Stainers Prize
www.lynnpainterstainersprize.org.uk/exh…

Making a Mark: article commenting on LPS Prize
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Second Prize (£4,000)
Lara Cobden, The Winterkeeper's Cabin (2018), £2,500

I kept getting a feeling before I saw it that is was somewhere heading into Peter Doig territory in terms of enigma and mystery - but not quite in terms of painterliness - although it's very well painted. The painting certainly did not disappoint on viewing and I can well imagine that it was one of those which stuck in the brains of judges - which is what I always think a prizewinning painting should do.



Congratulations to all the prize winners:

1st Prize
Jennifer McRae
Past, present, future: tracing the female line (2018)
Second Prize
Lara Cobden
The Winterkeeper's Cabin (2018)
Young Artist Award
Ewan White
No.7 (2018)
Brian Botting Prize
Charlie Schaffer
Preston (2018)
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Very happy that my painting ‘The Winterkeeper’s Cabin’ has been selected for the 2019 Lynn Painter Stainers Prize exhibition - PV 5th March at Mall Galleries with Parker Harris

'Lara’s atmospheric painting is a magical response to the natural world around her and the memory of sense of place. Her use of a limited colour palette gives the piece fluidity, making us connect to this moment of stillness. Laura says of her work that ‘the thread pulling her work together is about coming home, belonging or a sense of unbelongong.’

The Exhibition
The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize was created in 2005 by the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers and the Lynn Foundation to encourage the very best creative representational painting and promote the skill of draftsmanship. With prize money of £35,000 the Prize is one of the most prestigious awards to artists in the UK.

The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize welcomes outstanding creative examples of representational painting from both amateur and professional artists in the UK. Created in 2005 by The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers and The Lynn Foundation, the open competition continues to champion the skill of draughtsmanship and figurative painting. The exhibition aims to reflect the breadth of approaches and materials from across the artistic spectrum.

The Judges for 2019 are:

Christopher Green, artist and former prize winner
Tom Hewlett, Portland Gallery
Robin Lee-Hall PPRP, artist
Jennifer Scott, Dulwich Picture Gallery
Ben Sulivan RP, NEAC, artist

Prizes include an increased First Prize of £20,000; Second Prize of £4,000; Young Artist Prize of £4,000; The Daphne Todd Prize of £2,000; and the Brian Botting Prize of £5,000.

www.lynnpainterstainersprize.org.uk/

March-April 2019 The Arborealist Movement at The Musee Collégiale Sainte-Croix de Loudun France.

Delighted to be selected for the Wells Art Contemporary Shortlist!

Update: Very happy to be the lucky recipient of the Parker Harris Mentoring Award!

www.edp24.co.uk/news/norwich-artist-bea…

Wells Art Contemporary, a leading open exhibition for international contemporary art, is proud to announce the artists selected for the 2018 exhibition. Following an international open call, 123 works by 118 artists were selected from a total of 1,397 submissions from 26 different countries, the highest number of entries in the history of the Awards. The selection was made by a panel of leading figures from the art world including Caroline Walker, artist; Harry Borden, artist; Donald Smith, Director of Exhibitions, Chelsea Space; Julian Wild, artist; Peter Randall-Page, artist, and Tali Lennox, artist.

www.wellsartcontemporary.co.uk/2018-wac…

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The Art of the Tree by the Arborealists-East - Flatford Mill, East Bergholt
Exhibition artists Lara Cobden, Jelly Green, Tom Deakins, Paul Finn, Alex Egan, Emma Buckmaster & Janet French, Waj Mirecki, Claire Cansick
Exhibition title- The Art of the Tree by the Arborealists-East.


Opening reception Saturday 1st September 6-8pm

National Trust
Bridge Cottage, Flatford CO7 6UL
01206 297206 or 07971 955 862
twitter.com/FlatfordNT
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The Artist Magazine Article - August 2018

Delighted to be featured in The Artist magazine, August 2018 issue, out 13th July - so exciting, and slightly strange, to read an interview I had with Susie Hodges after winning an award with the Society of Women Artists last year.

The Holt Festival – Sir John Hurt Art Prize
Holt Festival is again delighted to announce a prize of £1,750 for the winner of this years’ Holt Festival - Sir John Hurt Art Prize. In addition, the winning work will go on to be exhibited in the autumn at the prestigious Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich. This is a great opportunity to buy a work by an emerging or established artist.

Details of the Holt Festival Sir John Hurt Art Prize - Shortlisted Works will be showing here very soon.

Announcement of the Winner
The winner will be announced at a private view of the Exhibition of Shortlisted Works on the evening of Sunday 22nd July at the Auden Foyer, Auden Theatre, Gresham's School, Cromer Road, Holt.

Exhibition of Shortlisted Works
An exhibition of between 25 and 30 shortlisted works will be held in the foyer of The Auden Theatre, Gresham's School, Cromer Road, Holt - 11.00am – 5.00pm Sunday 22nd – Sunday 29th July and evenings when there are Festival events on in The Auden Theatre.

The Judges
The panel of judges for 2018 is: Eileen Cooper RA, Robert Upstone and Lady Hurt.

www.holtfestival.org/whats-on/art-prize/

Black Swan Arts
Arborealists and Guests – featuring Paul Nash
Date: 21 July – 2 September
Preview: 20 July, 6-8pm – all welcome
Artists talk: Mon 9 July, 6-7pm
Artists Q&A: Sun 5 August, 3-4pm
A major new exhibition of trees in contemporary art at Black Swan Arts in Frome will feature work by forty-three Arborealists, some of international reputation, and six guest artists, as well as the painter Paul Nash.

The Arborealists were founded by artist and curator Tim Craven in 2013. Following the exhibition ‘Under the Greenwood: Picturing the British Tree’. The exhibition was staged at St Barbe Museum & Art Gallery, Lymington, in the heart of the New Forest.

The Arborealists are a loose association of some 60 artists of diverse art practice who share the subject of the tree. The group is far flung with members from Wales and the borders to East Anglia and London and every southern county from Kent to Cornwall. Outposts include Yorkshire, France, Italy and Ireland.

The Arborealists enjoy a national profile and have already staged 8 exhibitions to acclaim in the UK and France. With many more planned for the future. They have also produced 2 illustrated publications to complement the exhibitions.

This exhibition takes place around the building, including the Long Gallery and the Round Tower Gallery.

www.blackswanarts.org.uk/whats-on/long-…

CONNECTION : OPEN 2018
Events, Latest news
27th June to 30th September
CONNECTION: OPEN 2018 is the inaugural exhibition in the Handa Gallery at Wells Maltings celebrating the best in current East Anglian art from an open submission. Following a Private View on Tuesday 26th June, the exhibition will run from Wednesday 27th June to Sunday 30th September 2018; open from 10am to 6pm daily, entry free.

CONNECTION: OPEN 2018 brings together artists with an affinity to East Anglia to showcase the new Handa Gallery within the new landmark £5m Wells Maltings building on Staithe Street in Wells-next-the-Sea.

Featuring two-dimensional work in all media, CONNECTION: OPEN 2018 offers a unique opportunity to view and purchase work by artists at every level of their career, from emerging talent to established figures. Taking inspiration from the world-famous Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, this show demonstrates the wealth of talent to be found in the East of England and features a wide variety of paintings, drawings, prints, mixed-media work and wall-mounted textiles. From over 900 entries, 265 artists were selected via an anonymous entry process.

The CONNECTION: OPEN 2018 selectors and organisers are Catherine Mason, art historian and author; Veronica Sekules, Groundworks Gallery, King’s Lynn; Tracey Ross, artist and art tutor; and Simon Daykin, director, Wells Maltings.

www.wellsmaltings.org.uk/connection-ope…

THE ARBOREALISTS & OTHER PAINTERS
7 JULY - 4 AUGUST 2018
The John Davies Gallery

Tree Studies and Landscapes seen through the Eyes of 30 fine Artists.This exhibition features twenty-one of the sixty or so Arborealists and nine artists introduced to the group by The John Davies Gallery. This collection consists of over 100 exhibits in a wide variety of materials and sizes.


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Fairhurst Gallery
Fairground - An Exhibition of Fine Art, Photography and Design
9th – 27th January 2018

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An exhibition showcasing local and international talent in the fields of Fine Art, Design and Photography. We are delighted to introduce the paintings of Norfolk-based artist Lara Cobden who has recently been short-listed for the ING Discerning Eye and Threadneedle Prizes. Also on show are photographs by David Gwinnutt, from his series documenting 1980’s gay London, which were recently exhibited at London’s National Portrait Gallery.

Delighted to say that I have recently become a member of The Arborealists - an artists group, formed and curated by artist Tim Craven.

The Arborealists
The Arborealists were formed in 2013, the brain-child of curator and artist Tim Craven after the critical success of  Under the Green Wood : Picturing the British Tree, an exhibition he co-curated with Steve Marshall and Professor Anne Anderson at St Barbe Museum and Art Gallery, Lymington, Hampshire. This exhibition was formed of two distinct parts. Part one was an historical review of artists who had occupied themselves drawing and painting trees and tree-landscapes and included, John Constable, Paul Nash and Paul Sanby amongst other nineteenth and twentieth century celebrated artists. Part two featured 32 contemporary artists, represented by one work each, and included a Turner Prize short-listee and two Royal Academicians but also less well-known artists who had given trees, forests and woods a special value and who had developed new perceptions of painting and language while painting trees. The exhibition showcased a great diversity of art practice, including scale, medium, style and philosophy, centered around the unifying subject of the tree.

www.arborealists.com/p/home.html

I look forward to participating in several exhibitions around the UK and Europe with The Arborealists in 2018/2019, details of which are below:

www.arborealists.com/search/label/Lara%…

Future Arborealist Exhibitions

2019-20 Exmoor & Dartmoor, National Park Authorities
2019-03 Collégiale Sainte-Croix de Loudun Loudun, France
2018-10 Regional Arborealists show, Flatford Mill, National Trust
2018-09 St Ives Society of Artists Gallery, Mariners Gallery St Ives, Cornwall
2018-07 Black Swan Arts Frome, Somerset
2018-07 John Davies Gallery Moreton–in-Marsh, Gloucestershire

Excited to hear that I have had this painting selected for the 2017 ING Discerning Eye exhibition, held in London's Mall Galleries this November.

Crossroads - 30cmx30cm

The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition is a show of small works independently selected by six prominent figures from different areas of the art world: two artist, two collectors and two critics. Work is selected from open submission and with works by artists invited by the individual selectors. Each section is hung separately to give each its own distinctive identity. The impression emerges of six small exhibitions within the whole. It provides an unusual opportunity for works by lesser-known artists to be hung alongside contributions from internationally-recognised names.

The exhibition will be open from 16 - 26 November 2017 at the Mall Galleries, London, with an Artists' Private View on Thursday 16 November.

Parker Harris Partnership

www.discerningeye.org/exhibition/intro/…

'She fell and landed somewhere between awareness and surrender' 60cm Diameter Oil on Canvas

Delighted that this painting reached pre-selection for The Columbia Threadneedle Prize 2018.

Figurative art is more than ever at the forefront of contemporary art practice and is always a subject of debate.  With many high profile art prizes tending towards conceptual and abstract works, The Columbia Threadneedle Prize deliberately sets out to examine figurative art today producing a comprehensive current survey.

A first prize of £20,000 and a solo exhibition is awarded for the best new work of figurative and representational art.
A further prize of £10,000 is awarded by visitors to the exhibition, which takes place at Mall Galleries in central London from 31 January to 17 February 2018. Five Shortlisted Artists each receive £1,000​

This year’s Selectors include Pippa Stockdale, Managing Director of The Fine Art Society, London; Jennifer McRae, award winning portrait artist; and Helen Pheby, Senior Curator at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The Chairman of the panel is Lewis McNaught, Director of Mall Galleries.

www.threadneedleprize.com/page/1/Home

I found out today that two of my paintings had been selected for exhibition in the 165th Royal West Academy Open Exhibition, one selected, not hung and this piece 'House of Solanum' selected and hung, I am over the moon!

165 Annual Open Exhibition
01 Oct 17 - 03 Dec 17

The renowned RWA Annual Open Exhibition returns for its 165th year with a stunning variety of work from emerging and established artists.

This dynamic and varied exhibition invites painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture, illustration and mixed media submissions and is a showcase of some of the most exciting artists from across the country and beyond. All work is for sale, making the Annual Open a perfect opportunity to discover new artists or invest in well-known names.

We are very pleased to announce that 2017's Invited Artists will be Royal Academy President and prolific painter, printmaker and sculptor Christopher Le Brun, and photographic artist Tom Hunter, primarily known for his work documenting everyday life in Hackney, London.

This year's of panel of selectors will include Marie-Anne McQuay, Head of Programme at Bluecoat, Liverpool, writer, curator and lecturer James Russell and Joseph Clarke, director of Anima-Mundi, alongside RWA President Stewart Geddes and Academicians Stephen Jacobson, John Maine, Rachel Ara and Sara Dudman.

www.rwa.org.uk/whats-on/165-annual-open…

Very honoured and excited to have won The Artist Editor's Choice Award for this painting at the Society of Women Artists 156th Annual Summer Exhibition 2017
on show at The Mall Galleries SW1London 4th - 9th July 2017

www.society-women-artists.org.uk/galler…

www.society-women-artists.org.uk/

SOCIETY OF WOMEN ARTISTS 156th ANNUAL LONDON EXHIBITION 2017

MALL GALLERIES (Near Admiralty Arch) London SW1

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Excited to hear that I have had two paintings selected for the ING Discerning Eye exhibition, held in London's Mall Galleries this November.

Catching Venus in a Rock Pool - selected by Dan Coombs
Returned - selected by Chris Orr RA


The ING Discerning Eye Exhibition is a show of small works independently selected by six prominent figures from different areas of the art world: two artist, two collectors and two critics. Work is selected from open submission and with works by artists invited by the individual selectors. Each section is hung separately to give each its own distinctive identity. The impression emerges of six small exhibitions within the whole. It provides an unusual opportunity for works by lesser-known artists to be hung alongside contributions from internationally-recognised names.

The exhibition will be open from 17 - 27 November 2016 at the Mall Galleries, London, with an Artists' Private View on Thursday 17 November. Invitations for the Private View will be sent to you shortly.

Parker Harris Partnership

www.discerningeye.org/exhibition/intro/…
www.artrabbit.com/events/ing-discerning…

So happy to announce that this painting, Into the Enchanted Garden, won the Holt Art Prize!

The winner was announced by Amanda Geitner of the East Anglian Art Fund at a private view of the Exhibition of Shortlisted Works on the evening of Sunday 24th July at the Auden Foyer, Auden Theatre, Gresham's School, Cromer Road, Holt.

Exhibition of Shortlisted Works

11.00am – 5.00pm The Foyer, Auden Theatre, Gresham's School, Cromer Road, Holt
The exhibition of shortlisted works was open to the public from Saturday 23rd July and forms part of the Festival Art Trail. The exhibition ran throughout the festival until Sunday 31st July.

www.holtfestival.org/whats-on/arts-priz…

Surprised and delighted that my painting Feathers; Flesh; Leaf; Bone has been accepted to the Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition

www.society-women-artists.org.uk/


SOCIETY OF WOMEN ARTISTS 155TH ANNUAL LONDON EXHIBITION 2016

Thursday 28 July – Sunday 7 August (close 3pm)

MALL GALLERIES (Near Admiralty Arch) London SW1

Suspended Daydreams | Oil on Wood Panel | 100cmx70cm

Very happy to have just found out that my painting 'Suspended Daydreams' has made the longlist for the Jackson’s Open Art Prize 2016.

The link below shows the 410 entries long-listed from a total of 3100 entries. The judges short-list will be announced on 29th April 2016.


www.jacksonsart.com/blog/2016/04/15/joa…

Alternative Eden | Oil on Wood Panel | 100cmx70cm

Very happy that this painting has been shortlisted for Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize and will be exhibited at the Mall Galleries, London from 7-13 March 2016.

This annual exhibition is held at the Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1. At the opening Private View of the exhibition, the winners are announced and awarded their prizes.

The 2016 exhibition will be shown in the Mall Galleries from 7 – 13 March 2016 followed by a touring exhibition to Guildford House Gallery from 25 June – 17 July 2016.

Approximately 100 paintings are selected for exhibition and all works are for sale.

The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize was created in 2005 by the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers and the Lynn Foundation to encourage the very best creative representational painting and promote the skill of draftsmanship. With prize money of £30,000 the Prize is one of the most prestigious awards to artists in the UK.

From 2005 the exhibition of selected paintings were shown at the magnificent home of the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers, the Painters’ Hall, in the City of London. In 2012 the exhibition moved to the Mall Galleries, The Mall, London. During a reception at the exhibition the winners are awarded their prizes and the first prize-winner is also awarded a specially designed and engraved gold medal.

The range and quality of artists entering and exhibiting in the exhibition have grown each year and its reputation amongst artists is outstanding.


www.mallgalleries.org.uk/whats-on/exhib…
www.lynnpainterstainersprize.org.uk

I am pleased to announce that my painting 'Everything carries me to you' has been pre-selected for next stage of The Columbia Threadneedle Prize.

Figurative art is more than ever at the forefront of contemporary art practice and is always a subject of debate.  With many high profile art prizes tending towards conceptual and abstract works, The Columbia Threadneedle Prize deliberately sets out to examine figurative art today producing a comprehensive current survey.

The Threadneedle is viewed as one of the most prestigious art prizes in the UK today and this year its panel includes artist and writer David Dawson, Director General at Palazzo Strozzi Arturo Galansino, Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum Dr Tim Knox, Arts Journalist Emma Crichton-Miller and Director of Mall Galleries Lewis McNaught.

The selection process is in two parts, initially a digital submission determines which artists are pre-selected, then the selection panel see the works in person to determine the final pieces for the 2015 exhibition.

www.threadneedleprize.com/page/1/Home

Contemporary Art Exhibition

PAiNT - paint-exhibition.co.uk/about-paint/

We are privileged to be alive at a time when painting is not dominated by one single movement, at present we see the flourishing of many different styles, techniques, subjects, and themes. We have a wealth of artists of various backgrounds pushing at the boundaries of painting. Paint is an exhibition of over 22 artists all working in their own individual style, all very different but all producing interesting high quality and sometimes challenging work.

The exhibition also features artist-led workshops and a series of talks on Art history by art historian Andrew Taylor hosted by Anteros Arts Foundation

Brian Korteling Mari French Will Teather Peter Rodulfo Corrin Tulk William Black Ben Bell Lara Cobden Gena Ivanov Andy Reeve Lisa Almond Helen Shepherd John Sparks Claire Cansick Rachel Hannyngton Karen Burridge Ruth McCabe Nicholas Denney Anita Staff Lotta Walker Helen Wells David Sullivan Evie Janssens

Private View Friday 6th November 7-9:30pm.

Featuring classical guitarist Peter Turrell.

The Undercroft is located below the War Memorial opposite City Hall, Norwich. Access is via the door on the right (opposite the Guildhall) at the top of the market.

Selection In NOA 15 At The Royal College Of Art, London 21 October - 1 November 2015

I am so excited and happy to be exhibiting as a finalist in the National Open Art Competition Winter Exhibition 2015.

Two of my paintings have been selected for this year's NOA 15 exhibition at the Royal College of Art in October. The National Open Art Competition is the largest open submission competition in the UK. The exhibition opens on the 21st of October until 1st of November at RCA, Kensington Gore.

www.thenationalopenartcompetition.com

Paint Out Wells-next-the-Sea

I was absolutely delighted and 'slightly gob-smacked' to win this Plein Air Painting Competition!

21 artists descended on North Norfolk’s bustling coastal port of Wells-next-the-Sea during this new for 2015 satellite event. Paint Out Wells featured 2 days of competition sessions, a public beach sunrise ‘paint out’, evening gala, awards and auction, and a 2-3 day exhibition during the week of 9-13 September. The artists’ hub was the historic Dutch ship the Albatros, moored on the quay and the Wells Maltings Sackhouse. The Prize Winners were Lara Cobden (1st), Alfie Carpenter (2nd), Jack Godfrey (3rd) with judges commendations to Susan Mann, Jennifer Sendall, Candide Turner-Bridger.

www.paintoutnorwich.org/wells-next-the-…

I am so happy and excited that four of my paintings have been short-listed for the 2015 Stage 2 judging on Tuesday 1 September.

PDF Catalogue of NOA 2015
www.nationalopenart.org/catalogue2015/f…

Crystalline Carriage I
Honey Moon Illusion

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Art Fair East June 5th - 7th 2015 St Andrews Hall Norwich





ART FAIR EAST | 5-7 June 2015
St Andrews Hall Norwich
Lara Cobden | Stand 34


The first fair takes place in the spectacular setting of Saint Andrews Hall, at the heart of Norwich city centre. The Fair will be open the weekend of 5th – 7th June.

Opening times and details of how to get there can be found on the Art Fair East website.

Lara Cobden has been selected from international submissions to exhibit in Art Fair East, one of the major regional art fairs in the UK.

Art Fair East’s co-founder Will Teather said:

‘‘“We are delighted to have Lara Cobden taking part in our 2015 event. We have had a fantastic range of submissions of high quality contemporary art, from across the UK and overseas. Art Fair East aims to showcase the best the art-world has to offer to a wide audience of collectors, art professionals and the general public.”

Lara said:

‘‘I am excited to be selected from international submissions and to be showcasing my new body of work at the first Art Fair East. This annual event aims to be an important new art fair for the East of England and will be an exciting opportunity to show my paintings to both a local and international audience."

Originally from London, Lara graduated with a BA Hons in Fine Art Painting at Brighton University in 1995. She moved to Norfolk several years ago after spending 11 years living on Valentia Island, Co Kerry, Ireland.

She has recently exhibited in Espacio Gallery, London (Chelsea Fringe), Store Street Gallery, Bloomsbury, London, Affordable Art Fair in London and Stockholm, GoFigurative, London, The Wey Gallery, Surrey, Cambridge Contemporary Art, Red Dot Gallery, Holt, Norfolk, The Corte Real Gallery Paderne, Portugal.

Art Fair East will be showcasing national and international galleries, dealers and artists to an Eastern region audience of art collectors and businesses. A wealth of knowledgeable and experienced dealers are being assembled to help visitors to the fair build a superb collection of visual art from the UK and overseas. Gallery specialists will be available to advise on collecting contemporary art including original paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, sculpture, new media and works made to commission.

Opening times and details of how to get there can be found on the Art Fair East website


For further information:

Contact Lara Cobden:

Email: laracobden@hotmail.com / Telephone: 07507 686466


Contact Art Fair East:

Email: info@artfaireast.com / Telephone: 07792 419898


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Exhibition Detail
Group Show
GERMINATION
Curated by: Tania Beaumont, Laura Gompertz, Mireia Donat Melus, Renee Rilexie
Espacio Gallery
159 Bethnal Green Road
London E2 7DG
United Kingdom


May 19th - May 31st
Opening:
May 21st 1:00 PM - 7:00 PM

www.artslant.com/lon/events/show/380732…

Germination - Chelsea Fringe
19-31 May 2015
Private View: Thursday 21 May 6-9pm
Espacio Gallery 3rd annual event on the Chelsea Fringe trail, comprising works in a variety of media giving a fresh look into some of the aspects relating to the natural world.

www.espaciogallery.com/future-exhibitio…

Just sent new work down to the Store Street Gallery, London - excited about exhibiting with them at the Affordable Art Fair in Stockholm this October 2014

affordableartfair.com/stockholm/?lang=en
www.storestreetgallery.com/artists/

www.nnopenstudios.org.uk/artists/detail…

My studio is open as part of Norfolk and Norwich Open Studios for visitors on the dates below:

May | Sun 25 | Mon 26 | Fri 30 
June | Sat 31 | Sun 1 | Fri 6 | Sat 7 | Sun 8

11am - 5pm

Visitors welcome throughout the year by appointment
See link for details and directions.