Upcoming Exhibitions
POSTCARDS FROM THE ARTIST STUDIO
“Postcards from the Artist Studio” is an exhibition that will be held at Both Gallery in Highgate, London from 20th to 26th October 2025. It features new postcard-sized works made by members of the Split Collective, which I’m involved in.
Split Collective is comprised of around 70 painters and sculptors from Ireland, the UK, Europe and the US, who have been on the Turps Banana Art School Correspondence Course and Onsite Programmes during 2023-25. The members got together through a common desire to strengthen bonds and to support each other’s creative work.
This exhibition brings the Collective together for the fifth time in 2025 with a fresh show of our smallest pieces. Postcards have been an integral part of our exhibitions as a means of fund-raising for the exhibition costs, but we feel now that it’s time to show our small works in their own right.
Do get along to the Both Gallery next week if you are near enough. It will include a great mixture of affordable art.
Exhibition: 20th - 26th October, 12-4pm
Private View: 23rd October 6-8pm
Both Gallery, 323 Archway Road, London N6 5AA
Clockwise from top left: Hillside pathway in Herm to St Tugual’s Chapel, Fiona Richmond; La Gran'mère du Chimquière, Aaron Yeandle; Lost Ground, Battery Mirus, Fiona Richmond; Tree Root from the series ‘Occultations’, Aaron Yeandle.
A COLLABORATION WITH AARON YEANDLE
I’m currently working towards a two-person exhibition with photographer Aaron Yeandle which will be held at the Gatehouse Gallery in Guernsey. We have been working together on this project for a couple of months, and it is due to open on Friday 27th March 2026, running until 19th April. Do pencil the private view in your diary on the evening of 26th March!
Aaron is a documentary photographer who has won and been short-listed for several national and international photographic awards. While he is probably best known for his portrait-based work, he has a real love of landscape photography. Since I returned to painting in 2020, we have taken part in several group exhibitions together, discussing and enjoying each other’s work. We felt that a joint exhibition would work well, highlighting our similarities and differences.
Over the last 18 months, Aaron has been capturing a body of dark and mysterious nighttime images that have been made across many of the transitional and marginal spaces in Guernsey. Like me, he draws on the past to think about the relationship between human life and the environment using landscape as a vehicle to consider what it means to be present in the world at this moment in time.
My own landscape work is not presented as a scenic depiction but as immersive; a series of marks and signs that focus on the fragility of life, both human and non-human. Drawing in the landscape is often my starting point, recording both what I see and what I feel. It makes me think about past events - the memories, people, stories and landmarks that have shaped us over the millennia. Although I’ve lived in the island most of my life, the topography has changed dramatically since my childhood, affected by increases in population size, average wealth and the changing lifestyles of the community. Capturing the here-and-now feels particularly important at the point where the co-existence of humans and nature has tipped drastically towards destruction.
Aaron and I hope that the work being developed will provide an opportunity for viewers to reflect, slow down and make their own connections to the images. Many of us feel disconnected by the deep undercurrents that fuel our existence, and the best way to form hope is by feeling a real personal connection and relationship to land and landscape - to the community and the ecosystems we are part of.