Artists at Home Studio Guide 2023

Fifty years of Artists At Home

The Artists At Home annual open studio weekend in Chiswick celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2023. Founded by artists Julian Trevelyan and Mary Fedden at Durham Wharf on the River Thames in 1973, it has been going from strength to strength to the present day.

Durham Wharf was already a favoured area for artists and makers to live cheaply outside central London as early as the 1920s, and was being used for block fabric printing, stone sculpting and film making by artists in the Chiswick Group around that time.

Durham Wharf, Julian Trevelyan 1943. © The Julian Trevelyan Estate Image courtesy of Portland Gallery

Painter Julian Trevelyan and his first wife, potter Ursula Darwin, moved to Durham Wharf in 1934. It became their home and workspace from which they ran a gallery and circulating picture library. Patrons of the library could rent pictures by, it is thought, artists such as Max Ernst, Stanley Spencer, Roland Penrose, Henry Moore, John Piper and Graham Sutherland, paying 10 shillings for six months, after which they could either buy the picture or rent a different one.

Julian Trevelyan and Ursula Darwin divorced in 1950 and Julian married fellow painter Mary Fedden the following year. The open studio scheme that Julian and Mary went on to create, and which eventually became Artists At Home, appears to have grown out of boat race parties held by the artist residents of Durham Wharf, the newly built St Peter’s Wharf, and some of the houses in Chiswick Mall, during which their homes and gardens were thrown open to visitors. In 1973 this informal scheme became an annual event, and Artists at Home was born.

© The Julian Trevelyan Estate

When asked to describe how this came about for the 30th anniversary of Artists At Home in 2003, Mary Fedden, then aged 88, said:

…we never realised we would be starting a local tradition. We had been asked to open by Hammersmith and Fulham Council, who enticed us with a £5 grant for tea and biscuits. Much to our surprise, the day was a huge success, with over 100 visitors. They were appreciative of our work but [were] equally interested to see inside these mysterious studios! …Artists At Home has obviously expanded and changed a lot since I took part…The intention, however, is very much the same – to give people the opportunity of seeing artists’ work in the very space where it was created.

Mary Fedden in her studio in Chiswick, London. © Eamonn McCabe

There have, of course, been many changes in the last 50 years and many innovations under the leadership of, since the late 1980s, Jane Elmer-Smith, Joanna Brendon, Jill Revie, Steph Curtis-Raleigh and currently Kathryn Davey. Recently, the challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic led to an online-only exhibition, an autumn instead of a summer event, and artists’ pages that are now online for contacts and sales all year round. We continue to develop, moving into video, an online charity auction, and social media to promote our members’ work to the worldwide art market.

The present day Artists at Home has around 100 members and still has artists with studios at St Peter’s Wharf and on Chiswick Mall. It’s impossible to know how much we’ll have changed in another 50 years’ time, but one thing is certain, the area will continue to inspire and attract artists and makers across all disciplines.

Durham Wharf. © Ian Alexander

Open Studio Weekend

UK’s oldest art trail: 1973–2023

Chiswick | Hammersmith | Shepherd’s Bush

Welcome to Artists at Home 50th Anniversary open studios!

This June we celebrate being the oldest open art studio event in the country. Founded at Durham Wharf on Chiswick Mall in 1973 by Mary Fedden and Julian Trevelyan, our artists are continuing to show their work in the spaces in which it is created every year. It’s a great weekend for you to visit artists in their homes and studios, hear how their work is made, and what inspires and motivates them.

Ninety-seven established and emerging artists will be exhibiting paintings, ceramics, jewellery, sculpture, photographs, textiles and prints in 69 studios across Chiswick, Hammersmith and Shepherd’s Bush.

This guide contains a useful map and some key studio information. For more detailed information, to plan your route, pick favourites, make enquiries, check studio access and see more of our artists’ work, visit our website at www.artistsathome.co.uk

Entry is free to all studios and we look forward to welcoming you.

All studios are open:

Friday 6pm–9pm | Saturday 11am–6pm | Sunday 11am–6pm

www.artistsathome.co.uk

SCAN TO VIEW INTERACTIVE MAP

42 Wellesley Road W4 4BZ 07909 696352

Striking and unusual abstract paintings that get people talking

42 Wellesley Road W4 4BZ 07909 696352

Young artist creating beautiful ocean-like paintings

16 Burlington Road W4 4BG

07562 522970

Topics with which we all struggle in a difficult world

29 Whitehall Park Road W4 3NE 07973 120108

Abstract oil paintings on canvas; strong colour, texture and rough surfaces

1 Sophie Ashdown Coady

1 AJ Coady

2 Doris Ernst

3 Kathryn Davey

29 Whitehall Park Road W4 3NE 07957 474182

Practical and contemporary wheel-thrown pottery

25 St Mary’s Grove W4 3LL 07973 317363

Charcoal drawing and figurative oil paintings, birds, landscape, animals, still life

49 St Mary’s Grove W4 3LN 07974 985850

Bold contemporary jewellery using unusual and recycled materials

29 Grove Park Terrace W4 3JL 07809 869944

Emulsion paint on rag cotton and canvas

3 Saskia Daniel Ceramics

4 Humphrey Bangham

5 Felicity Gail

6 Celia Martine Pickering

29 Grove Park Terrace W4 3JL 07951 810887

Individual garments using a collection of world fabrics

29 Grove Park Terrace W4 3JL 07930 382849

Oil paintings exploring nature and landscape, between abstraction and figuration

39 Elmwood Road W4 3DY

07966 621809

Contemporary, semi-abstract landscape and seascapes with a strong sense of colour and movement

39 Elmwood Road W4 3DY 07791 085881

Large, thrown decorative and functional ceramics

6 Clare Johnston

6 Mary West

7 Annabel Hill

7 Roz Wallis

7 Hazledene Road W4 3JB 07897 447404

Seascape, landscape, woodland and floral paintings in oil, acrylics and mixed media

7 Hazledene Road W4 3JB 07855 651773

Ethical and sustainable contemporary jewellery in gold, silver and platinum

Fauconberg Road

96 Sutton Court W4 3JF 07962 404973

Impressionistic paintings with floral motifs, landscapes, still life, photography, prints, cards, scarves

60 Staveley Road W4 3HU 07956 317200

Figures and spaces caught in shifts of light, masking, diffusing and revealing the subject

8 Seraphine Tierney

8 Farah Qureshi

9 Natalia Bobrova

10 Christine Berrington

60 Staveley Road W4 3HU 07790 360038

Colourful mixed media, contemporary paintings, and silver and enamel jewellery

132 Park Road W4 3HP 07932 027603

Thrown stoneware ceramics and raku fired vases and jars

132 Park Road W4 3HP

yoshietp@gmail.com

Thown and hand-built stoneware, with simple, strong motifs combining line, texture, colour

8 Spencer Road W4 3SN 07719 725724

Oil painting, watercolours, charcoal and mixed media landscapes, portraits, life and still life

10 Louise Richards

11 Sylvie Joly

11 Yoshie Prideaux

12 Carol Tait

4 Bolton Road W4 3TB

07798 584741

Oils, pastels, charcoal and ink, in fields of landscape, buildings and life

4 Bolton Road W4 3TB 07904 895780

Oil and watercolour paintings, drawings, giclee prints and cards

47 Rothschild Road W4 5HT 07949 594085

Decorative and useful stoneware and more sculptural pieces in a variety of sizes and finishes

47 Rothschild Road W4 5HT 07901 623469

Landscapes inspired by the flux and flow of the natural world: seasons, weather, water and light

13 Pierre Fowell

13 Norman Staines

14 Ruth Ridley

14 Arabella Harcourt-Cooze

15 Bran Sivas

7 Seymour Road W4 5ES 07974 750078

Works in oil and charcoal focusing on still life, portraiture and the human figure

16 Suz Hartman

8 Antrobus Road W4 5HY 07843 487607

Figurative/abstract drawing and painting on paper in an individual contemporary style

17 Jill Revie

254a Acton Lane W4 5DJ 020 8987 9156

Framed oil paintings and drawings, Matisse-inspired colourful still life and scenes

18 Martina Rohr

77 St Albans Avenue W4 5JS 07443 608204

Abstract/figurative landscapes in oil on canvas, and drawings in oil and ink on paper

7 Ramillies Road W4 1JW 07714 324961

Looking for the beauty in life: surprises, humour, inspiration and uniqueness

3 St Albans Avenue W4 5LL 07711 562713

Layers of rich colour, urban influences, expressive landscape and internal space

1 St Albans Avenue W4 5LL 07984 432306

Chinese ink and tempera on wood, figurative, rosas dancers, drawings, small works on paper

Ground Floor, Wellington Place, Dolman Road W4 5PS 07930 365518

Figurative and abstract paintings in acrylic, collage and pastel on board

19 Donna Schoenherr

20 Alice Sheridan

21 Isobel MacLeod

22 Louise Kaye

Ground Floor, Wellington Place, Dolman Road W4 5PS 07803 351758

Oil painting on canvas/board. Drawing charcoal/conte/inks

Ground Floor, Wellington Place, Dolman Road W4 5PS 07887 928819

Abstract expressionist paintings in acrylic and oils on canvas

Barley Mow Centre, 10 Barley

Mow Passage W4 4PH 07584 242188

Self-taught artist from India connecting with herself and others through art

Barley Mow Centre, 10 Barley

Mow Passage W4 4PH 07425 32690

Surreal work and symbolism representing places I have been and thoughts I have had

22 Clare Arafa

22 Steph Curtis-Raleigh

23 Sangeeta - SansArt

23 Tommy Robinson

7 Sharon Road W4 4PD 07976 253363

Abstract and zoomorphic sculptural ceramics, smoke- and raku-fired, hand-built pieces

18 Hadley Gardens W4 4NX 07960 878775

Oil paintings, linocuts, watercolours and drawings of still lifes and landscapes

18 Hadley Gardens W4 4NX 07941 523514

Stoneware and porcelain ceramics, and fused glass

8 Foster Road W4 4NY 020 8994 3393

Striking semi-abstract landscapes with Chiswick House the star of the show this year

4 Alison Wear

24 Clare Belfield

24 Louise Mock

25 Peter Thornborough

16 Reckitt Road W4 2BT 07919 484546

Distinctively textured work celebrating what it is to be human

9 Windmill Road W4 1RN 07951 975472

Landscape-based abstracts with a strong sense of place

9 Windmill Road W4 1RN

07532 811399

Handwoven scarves and shawls in silk and fine wool

9 Windmill Road W4 1RN 07913 547169

Silver jewellery, semi-precious stones, handwoven bead necklaces

26 Gillian Brett

27 Joanna Brendon

27 Bobbie Kociejowski

27 Annette O’Sullivan

96 Thornton Avenue W4 1QQ 07875 284075

Oil painting on canvas, linen and wood-board

96 Thornton Avenue W4 1QQ 07534 230262

Painting and drawing

5 Cranbrook Road W4 2LH 07753 807174

Oil paintings and watercolours inspired by pattern and colour in the natural and built world

15 Balfern Grove W4 2JX 07470 042620

Eye-catching work from direct observation and memory in oil, watercolour, pastel, mixed media

28 Jasna Bell

28 Gala Bell

29 Laura Gompertz

30 Jill Spearman

15 Balfern Grove W4 2JX 07811 316055

Innovative one-off pieces of art jewellery inspired by the local environment

53 Homefield Road W4 2LW 07776 131736

Urban landscapes in a lively representational style

16 Queen Anne’s Gardens W4 1TU 07785 261114

Contemporary silver and gold jewellery and watercolour paintings inspired by the natural world

31 Fairfax Road W4 1EN 07766 073828

Landscapes, still life and figurative oil paintings, expressively exploring shape, tone and colour

30 Amanda Denison

31 Sandy Wall

32 Janice Zethraeus

33 Sophia Broke

33 Bath Road W4 1LJ 07718 751798

A series of drawings and paintings re-interpreting works by the Masters

17 Gainsborough Road W4 1NJ 07977 269778

Art in many media exploring attrition in nature, society, relationships, and language

17 Gainsborough Road W4 1NJ 07875 511353

Local member of the Royal Watercolour Society and New English Art Club

50 Flanders Road W4 1NG 07548 904446

Drawing, jewellery, painting, silkscreen printing on paper or fabric

34 Jill Hunt

35 Hamish Pringle

35 Francis Bowyer

36 Lisa Pfeiffer

31 Cleveland Avenue W4 1SN 07802 856553

Eclectic mix of abstract and representational work on paper and canvas

31 Cleveland Avenue W4 1SN 07855 435402

Exploring printmaking techniques inspired by the urban landscape

37 Prebend Gardens W41TN 07973 631222

Sculpture in wood, steel and aluminium

3 Western Terrace, Chiswick Mall W6 9TX 07887 645760

Ceramic garden sculptures, smaller domestic pieces, composite forms in clay and found materials

37 Sally Grumbridge

37 Lucy Strathon

38 Kit Line

39 Caroline Winn Ceramics

St Peter’s Wharf, Chiswick Mall

W6 9UD | 07917 523381

Paintings with textiles depicting generations of women, and abstract landscapes

4 St Peter’s Wharf Chiswick Mall W6 9UD | 07769 601030

Prints, drawings and paintings based on architectural spaces

1 Hammersmith Terrace W6 9TS 020 8748 1977

Portrait heads and figures in bronze, bronze resin and terracotta, ceramics in stoneware and raku

1 Hammersmith Terrace W6 9TS 07903 270686

Oil, acrylic and gouache paintings, collages, some pottery

40 Jenny Price

41 Ben Johnson

42 Antonia Young

42 Henrietta Parsons

1 Hammersmith Terrace W6 9TS

zoe_young@hotmail.com

Beautiful and useful pottery that enhances life every day

103 Aylmer Road W12 9LG 07919 586388

Acrylics, ink and mixed media, using numerous layers, texture and vibrant colours

Unit 47, 63 Jeddo Road

W12 9EE

leonora.trafford@gmail.com

Figurative and semi-abstract works on paper

Unit 46, 63 Jeddo Road

W12 9EE 07762 177537

Oil paintings, drawings and printmaking, themes of plants, animals, humans

42 Zoe Young

43 Salome Gallan

44 Leonora Trafford

45 Beryl Robinson

Unit 2, 63 Jeddo Road W12 9EE 07989 581940

Oil painting on various surfaces, still life, flowers, portraits, self portraits and abstracts

49 St Elmo Road W12 9EA 07850 403201

Acrylic portraits and landscapes in a semi-abstract style

1 Cobbold Mews W12 9LP

07715 044945

Computational art and design

22 Wendell Road W12 9RT 07714 268279

Oil paintings: figurative, still life and landscape

46 Marcia Hurst

47 Warren King

48 Matteo Caprari

49 Eve Pettitt

21 Flanchford Road W12 9ND 020 8743 7258

Thrown porcelain tableware, bowls, jars and vases

24 Flanchford Road W12 9ND julietstrong@outlook.com

Abstract handmade jewellery drawn from nature

19 Rylett Crescent W12 9RP

cb@clareburnett.net

Digital images, installation, mixed media, painting, sculpture inspired by 21st century dilemmas

19 Rylett Crescent W12 9RP 07710 092712

Drawing, installation and painting

50 Linda Bloomfield

51 Juliet Strong

52 Clare Burnett

52 Claude Temin-Vergez

33 Ashchurch Grove W12 9BU 020 8740 0542

Domestic and sculptural ceramics made from stoneware and porcelain clays

Flat 6, Askew Mansions, Askew Road W12 9DA | 07914 027893

Paintings, drawings and giclee prints, oils, acrylics, mixed media and handmade crafts

66 Vespan Road W12 9QQ 07811 043509

Drawing, painting, ceramics and books

147 Percy Road W12 9QJ 07764 830918

Figurative and portraiture from life, different media and varying degrees of abstraction

53 Carol Greenaway

54 Milton Grubert

55 Elaine Brown

56 Alla Samarina

77 Westville Road W12 9BB 07423 780525

Multidisciplinary work with a surrealist spin on common household objects and food

9 Greenside Road W12 9JQ 07984 673205

Wood engraving and printmaking, limited edition prints, stationery, cards, ceramics

9 Greenside Road W12 9JQ 07984 673206

Silkscreen prints based on original watercolours and wood engravings, ceramics, stationery, cards

250 Goldhawk Road W12 9PE 07470 506202

Award-winning ceramics that have sold worldwide

57 Helga Stentzel

58 Jonathan Mercer

58 Kate Fishenden

59 Jose Carvalho

8 Wingate Road W6 0UR 07836 203563

Decorative earthenware

ceramics: bold colourful bowls, platters, jugs and one-offs

8 Wingate Road W6 0UR 07711 433034

Layered acrylic paint on canvas, with mixed media using tools and techniques

13 Stowe Road W12 8BQ 07733 108307

Textured mixed media artwork including paintings and small clay sculpt pieces

7 Goldhawk Mews W12 8PA 07595 024701

Beauty in the mundane, photographs printed digitally or using printmaking techniques

60 Jane Elmer-Smith

60 Janemarie Mazoudier

61 Sonja Kennedy

62 Anna Booth

58 Cardross Street W6 0DR

07702 941521

Still life oil, acrylic and watercolour paintings including flowers, fruit and vegetables

64 Madeleine Marsh

3 Iffley Road W6 0PB 07770 403430

Jewellery and sculpture that tell a story made from mudlarked pottery and other finds

65

90 Hammersmith Grove W6 7HB

07803 892395

Multi-layered monoprints, sculpture, mixed media and drawing exploring existential concepts

66

50a Hammersmith Grove W6 7HA 07798 894222

Oil, acrylic, prints, studies from life and nature, and in Hammersmith, Dorset, Venice

63 Jennifer Abbott

Jax Hall

Isobel Johnstone

57 Westwick Gardens W14 0BS

07957 825679

Landscape paintings in oils

16 Irving Road W14 0JS 020 7603 5294

Ceramics, drawing, mixed media, painting: memories, narratives and magical worlds

16 Irving Road W14 0JS

07708 064529

Mixed media using ephemera as backgrounds for original prints and collages, plus jewellery

16 Irving Road W14 0JS

lucyfanthorpe@yahoo.co.uk

Wheel-thrown and hand-built ceramics using stoneware clay

67 Karin Perrin

68 Alicia Stroud

68 Tania Beaumont

68 Lucy Fanthorpe

69 Naila Hazell

34c Hazlitt Road W14 0JY

07984 954055

Portraiture, figurative, urban style, landscape paintings inspired by nature

Painting by Anita Klein