AFFORDABLE ART FAIR: BATTERSEA PARK, LONDON
Join us in Battersea Park, London for the March edition of the Affordable Art Fair.
Find us on Stand C4
Click here for your complimentary tickets
I have a limited number of 'All Day Passes' and are available be request
Private View, Wednesday 12 March: 5 - 9pm*
Thursday 13 March: 11am - 5pm, Art After Dark Late 5 - 9pm*
Friday 14 March: 11am - 5pm, Art After Dark Late 5 - 9pm*
Saturday 15 March: 10am - 6pm
Sunday 16 March: 10am - 6pm
Weekend Family Morning: 10am - 12pm
*Late events are 18+ only
Last entry: 8.30pm on weekdays; 5.30pm on weekends.
TIMED TICKETS
General Admission tickets are bookable in hourly slots - you can arrive at any point within your chosen time slot and once inside, can stay for as long as you wish.
Prasad Beaven
Growing up in India, in the foothills of the Himalayas, Beaven was immersed into these mountains and fostered a love for the majestic beauty that all nature has to offer.
As a practitioner of meditation, Beaven emphasises the importance of inner well-being and strives to constantly achieve a state of peace. This is a peace which permeates, flows, and courses into the brushstrokes of his work. Each piece straddles abstraction and realism and so - much like nature - the work is removed from shallow classifications, existing in nuanced planes of reality. He endeavours to highlight the essence of nature's phenomena while also expressing the internal world of the body.
While completing a Master's in Traditional Arts, Beaven discovered Chinese Landscape Painting. The philosophical grounding of his chosen genre acted as a significant artistic revelation for him. Since graduating in 2021 and winning the prestigious Ciclitera prize Beaven has exhibited at the Mall Galleries, Affordable Art Fair, Fabriano Watercolour 2022 and most recently at Saatchi Gallery.
Camilla Bliss
London based mixed-media artist Camilla Bliss blends the digital and the handmade through her practice, utilising a wide range of materials such as ceramics, metalwork, glass, wood, textiles and 3D printing. Crystallising her ideas through digital manipulation, the artist places an importance, however, on handmade processes and qualities. Bliss' work is influenced by historical craftsmanship, motifs and mythologies which she uses as a framework to communicate ideas about the modern world. Using universally recognisable symbols, Bliss allows the viewer to bring personal narratives to her work, mediated through a playful use of colour, material and surface.
Fi Hunter
Fiona Hunter is a UK based artist specialising in sculpture. Educated as a graphic artist, she became an internationally awarded advertising art director and creative director, living and working in London, Amsterdam and Cape Town.
Advertising led her to work with many top photographers where she developed a love of photography. Trying her hand in the medium, she produced limited edition fine art gicleé prints and went on to set up a successful pop-up gallery exhibiting her work as well as other photographers.
Not completely satisfied with working in 2D, she began sculpting figurative and portrait sculptures in clay. She is presently focused on experimenting with the many ways she can cast her finished work. She is now producing sculptures in clay and bronze, as well as marble, iron, bronze and jesmonite resins.
Justine Formentelli
Having spent her formative years in the Caribbean, ReĢunion Island, and Morocco, Justine Formentell’s work is deeply influenced by these transitory experiences and ever- changing environments. A sense of movement and flux permeates her pieces. Through undulating forms, transparency, and layered compositions, she explores the fluid boundaries of the self grounded in a body yet constantly interacting with the surrounding world.
Although figures are absent, her work is deeply concerned with how the external world permeates us on a profound level, connecting us all through an existential flow that moves through and around us. Using transparent, watery veils of paint, she blurs the distinction between foreground and background, examining the interplay between inner self and outer world. Whether drawing inspiration from the human body, the vegetal realm, or the mineral world, Justine sets up encounters between different forms, which at times merge and fuse into one another.
Embracing the unpredictability of highly diluted paints and revealing hidden layers through erasing and sanding, her process becomes a choreography of intention and discovery.
Justine Formentelli earned her MA from City & Guilds of London Art School in 2018. She has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe, with her work featured at the London Migration Museum in 2020. She was selected for Blue Shop Gallery: Works on Paper (2020), the ING Discerning Eye (2022), and the Royal Watercolour Society (2023). Her work is part of Soho House collections as well as private collections worldwide.
Mandy Payne
OUT OF THE SHADOWS - has been selected for Women's History Month exhibiton
For Mandy Payne the important concerns within her paintings are materiality, surface textures and facture. She wants to work with materials that have a physical connection to the sites she depicts, namely concrete and spray paint (referencing the graffiti).
Her work suggests that 'the built' is in fact a form of nature. Mandy's use of concrete, a material associated with the 'made', which main components actually derive from nature; sand and water, recognise the hidden roots that intertwine and connect us with the natural world. The natural environment where artist's materials derive from, is in direct relation to the urbanisation of the natural environment.
Payne is inspired by urban landscape, issues of gentrification, inequality, social housing and the flux of city environments. She is interested in Brutalist architecture, modernism, notions of utopia/dystopia and finding beauty in the ordinary/overlooked.
"I wanted to document the estate in transition and also for the work to speak of the loss and displacement of the existing communities. I am interested in issues of gentrification, social housing and the flux of the urban environment. I am inspired by the spaces people inhabit, the traces they leave and the capacity of places to absorb memories and experiences. I am particularly drawn to locations that are in a transitional state, that are overlooked or derided."
Phillipa Patterson
Philippa was born in New York, and thereafter followed a peripatetic life, living in many countries such a Switzerland, Cyprus, Japan, Australia, France and South Africa. Paterson has held equally diverse careers such as publishing, PR, translating and horse breeding.
She studied art in Sussex, London, Johannesburg and Sydney and currently paints in her studio in the South Downs.
Her paintings explore the complexities of a feminine world. the figures are usually seen in isolation, caught in a frozen moment against a coloured background, as if heroes from an ancient myth that have strayed into the modern world. Like the ancients, they are frequently accompanied by a symbolic creature.
Philippa's paintings are held in private and corporate collections across the world, she has been shortlisted for the Threadneedle Prize and won several awards including the National Open Art Competition.
Tim Steward
Classically trained in drawing and painting at Lavender Hill Studios in London, Tim Steward has honed an artistic voice filled with raw, energetic mark-making and a deep emotional connection to place.
Steward's choice of traditional mediums such as pastel, charcoal, pigment and oil, as well as found materials, such as charred wood, clay mud and sand, mirror his direct and instinctual way of working. Combining measured observation with working spontaneously at speed is at the heart of his painting and drawing technique.
Often working for long periods of time in specific locations, spending time quietly observing and becoming part of his surroundings. Steward explores the beauty of 'place', through study of the physical, historical and spiritual elements which characterise it, and by recording it's ever-changing nature over time. The process began with a focus on the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford, but more recently has centred around Tregardock, a National Trust owned area of North Cornwall.
Steward has felt a connection with Tregardock since early childhood, stating that he feels a sense of aliveness there and that it has given this work a 'renewed sense of freedom', allowing him to work much more from a place of 'instinct'. Over the past few years, he has spent time becoming immersed in the landscape there, at times physically sitting in the mud, in addition to exploring the history and story of the place by reading works by Daphne du Maurier, Robert McFarlane and poems by John Betjeman.
