The highlight of the second half of 2024 was the transformation of the studio into October’s Studio Fridays Art Fair. All seventeen Studio Fridays artists took part, welcoming hundreds of visitors through the door to see their latest work, participate in gallery tours, watch demonstrations, and buy work!
But what else has been happening for Studio Fridays artists over the past six months?
Raina Goran has been elected an Associate Member of the Royal Watercolour Society. This allows her, amongst other things, to exhibit four times each year at the Bankside Gallery. In the last few months she has also showed work at Gallery 54 in a show curated by Mike Skinner, and at the Women in Art Fair in the Mall Galleries.
Dawn Limbert has been elected an associate member of the Society of Graphic Fine Art, with whom she has exhibited with at Mandells Gallery in Norwich and, later this year, at Watts Gallery near Guildford. Dawn also continues her successful relationship with Well House Gallery in Horndon on the Hill.
Diana Sandetskaya, Neeta Popat Kataria and Margaret Crutchley were all selected for Linden Hall Studio’s Winter Group Show in Deal. Sandetskaya was also selected to show in Art Unlimited at the Malthouse Gallery in Lyme Regis, the St Albans Artists Network’s 10th Anniversary Exhibition at Marks and Tilt gallery, the Southwark Park Galleries Annual Open Exhibition 2024, and Connect 24, a group exhibition at the Art of Isolation Gallery in Surrey Quays.
As well as Linden Hall, Popat Kataria also took part in Harrow Open Studios and exhibited with Pinner Sketch Club and at Ayot St Lawrence. Crutchley, along with Helen Robinson, filled furniture showroom Sofas ’n’ Stuff in St Albans with their work as part of Herts Open Studios, and Robinson, along with Caroline Matthews and Simon Gazzard, had work selected for the 2024 ING Discerning Eye exhibition at the Mall Galleries. Gazzard, who will be appearing on Sky Art’s Landscape Artist of the Year in January, was also selected to show at AKA Fine Art’s Winter Exhibition in Cambridge, took part in the hugely successful Highgate Art Fair, and, along with Dawn Limbert, has been painting Plein Air with a group of artists brought together by Jacksons Art, which they have written about in their blog.
Elise Mendelle exhibited for the second time with Oreofe Gallery at Lespace Gallery in Paris, and received the Directors Choice Award for her painting that was included in the show, ’Falling’, at Henarch Gallery, resulting in being offered a solo show in 2025.
Finally, Sara Gregory’s Menopause work continued to shed light on the subject, when slides of her work appeared as a backdrop in Dr Newson’s national live theatre tour. Her painting, ‘Down’, was also selected for the ‘Behind the Artist’ virtual exhibition.
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