My Painting in the Chelsea Art Society Summer Exhibition!

This week I was so excited to find out that one of my paintings has been accepted into the Chelsea Art Society Summer Exhibition this year!

The exhibition will take place from 16th - 21st June this year. Chelsea Old Town Hall, the building it takes place in, is gorgeous and worth a visit regardless of the huge variety of talented artists on display at this event!

The artwork accepted called 'Pandemic Picnic' is an important piece of work for me, kick-starting my focus on paintings themed around human connection through the sharing of food and drink. 

It's a painting depicting a moment during the pandemic where my boyfriend and I would take a picnic blanket up onto the flat roof of our apartment, climbing awkwardly out of our skylight holding mugs of tea in order to get some sun on our faces.

We didn't have any windows apart from the skylights, and so were starved of views and direct sun, so the great escape out into the outdoors during such a stressful time of high vigilance was an example of a small moment calm. Sometimes all it takes is a cup of tea to make an unprecedented period feel more normal, grounding us.

I've had work accepted into the Chelsea Art Society once before. It was my lino print called Nuudles, depicting a nude woman standing in a bowl of noodles. It represented a fun tradition my friends and I had formed where we would go life drawing and then grab noodles after. While it is visually different from my paintings, it represents the same themes of human connection through food, with an added twist of creative activities thrown in there!

Come along to this year's exhibition this summer and see my work on the walls, along with the thousands of other amazing artworks that will be on display!