Disciplines
The EFOA Open House event is the 29/30th June and 6/7th July (11am to 6pm).
Here is a summay of all the artists exhibiting in the Open House event which you can filter by Discipline or click on Show All to see all the Artists. Click on a name to see their profile or on a House to see the House Details. On a mobile phone, view in landscape mode to see the Artists' descriptions.
All Artists
Alison Swanton (Guest)
Ceramics
Alison loves the sense of escapism she experiences when working with clay - a feeling of being 'in flow'. She mostly creates on the wheel. Throwing functional forms is her passion. Knowing that her pieces are admired for their aesthetic qualities and enjoyed regularly is key.
House 5
Ann Froomberg
Glass, Jewellery, Textiles
Ann will be exhibiting her colourful hand painted silks together with her fused glass jewellery and ornaments. Ann is passionate about pattern and colour, all her work is original, hand made and for sale. Ann trained as and makes her living as a commercial textile designer.
House 14
Cathy Burkinshaw
Painting
Cathy mostly concentrates on watercolours, enjoying the challengeof a very difficult medium. Mostly landscapes recently from her various visits to the local parks or from photos taken on holidays. Acrylics are creeping into her repertoire as a more manageable medium!! However Cathy is still keen on portraits and has completed a number of commissions this year.
House 11
Celia Avigdor
Painting
Blurring the lines between art and craft. Using porcelain as her canvas. Exploring the interplay between storytelling and ceramics.
House 05
Christine Watson
Painting, Printmaking
Christine Watson’s pastel Syros Steps seeks out the essential qualities of the island towns of the Mediterranean, revealing the richness of spaces and surfaces without sentiment or nostalgia. Steps and stairways, walls and roofs, windows and doors, streets and alleyways – the fabric of habitation – are revealed as they are, aged by wear and weather.
House 04
Clara Hancock
Textiles, Glass, Sculpture
Clara’s inspiration comes from her experiences of life. Clara explores and studies the effects of colour, light, line and shade in silk using free-hand drawing and applying colour with water as well as printing techniques. Through this Clara obtains a balanced composition of rich and vibrant colours.
House 05
Claudia Luque
Ceramics, Mixed Media, Sculpture
Claudia Luque is a contemporary ceramics artist specialised in sculptural ceramics and Raku. Claudia enjoy open exploration and she is always pushing boundaries in her creations.
House 04
Coral Harding
Mixed Media
Coral Harding (b.2001, London) is an artist currently in her third year at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL. Coral examines the impression of awe and the psychology of perception. She is interested in the exploration of space, and the ability to change the way space is experienced. She creates sculptures, paintings, drawings and prints.
House 06
Cynthia Lewis
Photography
Cynthia Lewis, sculptor member of the Society of Women Artists carves stone, models animals, birds, & creates 3-D Paper Sculptures for Pictures & Greetings Cards. A photographer, she's also showing Reverse Negatives, and Photographs from a series called 'Arrivals & Departures' she took in the old London Docks & Southampton.
House 05
David Gilbert
Sculpture
David’s sculptural work has a strong figurative theme around the human form, expressing flowing movement or emotional energy, working mainly in stone and wood. David’s love of colour is realised in his paintings using oil, acrylic, watercolour or egg tempera, and printmaking exploiting both Western and Japanese techniques.
House 13
David Lee
Painting
David's painting started with an impulse to begin, allowing him to enter the space of the canvas without preconceptions, except for a chosen palette. The overall tembre is a reflection of an inner world. Once started, the painting takes on a life of its own, drawing David further into its story.
House 19
Dawn Finn
Printmaking
Dawn’s unique monotypes capture expansive areas of textured colour creating her hypnotic images. Rolled areas of layered etching ink give depth and expression whilst she adds to this colour palette her very own style of mark making allowing her to create these intoxicating part abstract, part figurative images of a part real, part imagined world.
House 17
Debbie Wren (Guest)
Ceramics
Debbie Wren’s handmade ceramics are inspired by the flavours and colours of the Mediterranean. The collection includes ruby red tomatoes, chillies, plates of garlic, asparagus and artichokes. Each piece is handmade, unique and individual. Lovingly crafted in her studio near Rye.
House 10
Diana Stoker
Painting, Printmaking
In Silver Moon Diana has used her printed papers to create an image of the night sky in which ferns and other foliage are silhouetted against the moon.
House 16
Elvina John
Painting, Printmaking
Elvina is a painter and printmaker, born in North London. The capital's open spaces inspire much of her work as well as nature and wild spaces. She has a love of water colour and she is particularly interested in textural and tonal contrasts.
House 20
Francesca Raphael Lincoln
Ceramics, Painting, Sculpture
Francesca is exhibiting her new work; a series of acrylic paintings 'On finding beauty in the everyday objects that surround us'. A new range of colourful pottery domestic ware for use at home, alongside the growing series of characterful stoneware figures which she is beginning to be known for.
House 16
Gail Altschuler
Ceramics
Blurring the lines between art and craft, Gail uses porcelain as her canvas. Storytelling, unique plates for display art installations and sculptural vessels or vases. Sketchbook observations are drawn, etched and painted onto the porcelain under transparent glaze.Themes: relationships, artists and musicians.Irreverent with heart.
House 01
Gillian Dunkeld
Painting, Printmaking, Textiles
Gillian's fascination with the forms and patterns of nature continues to be expressed in a series of prints using real grasses. An etched base plate is inked and the superimposed grasses leave a perfect image when run through the printing press.
House 11
Greta Sadur
Painting
Usually Greta Sadur concentrates on relationships between people. But lighthouses represent the loneliness and stoicism that some people exhibit while performing difficult and essential tasks. Their light also gives one a sense of security and hope that is hypnotic and uplifting.
House 06
Ian Harding
Photography
Ian works as an advertising photographer & filmmaker. He is exhibiting a selection of personal work plus some examples of his moving imagery.
House 12
Ian Hunt
Painting
Ian Hunt had a long career in engineering and construction but he always wanted to paint. Upon retirement Ian studied at the Art Academy, London and now he does paint! He works from his studio in Muswell Hill and works mostly in oils.
House 17
Jane Higgison
Photography, Textiles
As a Textile Designer for many years, Jane produced coloured wovens & print designs for the men and ladies fashionwear in the UK and overseas. Her photography is inspired from many of her designs including seascapes, landscapes and architectural work.
House 10
Jenny Rymer
Ceramics
Jenny will be showing a cross section of her hand built ceramic pieces which reflect the delicacy and subtle rhythms of natural forms.
House 06
Jo Pethybridge
Ceramics
Jo is passionate about colour, patterns and form. Her ceramics are individually painted with intricate colourful designs influenced by nature, architecture and her surroundings, especially movements and patterns created by water,reflections and light. She is also an energy healer, she tries to let her pieces reflect this.
House 17
Kate Pasvol
Glass
Kate Pasvol works in glass that she fuses and kiln forms to create three dimensional images. Her main interest is in landscape but she also work with images relating to the female torso where she employs a different technique know as sand casting.
House 10
Kochi Okada
Jewellery
Kochi is a very versatile jeweller and works in wax carving, hammering, knotting, granulation, kemboo and enamelling. She creates limited editions and one-offs.
House 08
Laura De Benedetti
Ceramics
(2022) Laura started her career in ceramics making domestic ware. Her inspiration is the landscape of Northern Italy, which informs her choice of materials. She uses hard, porcelain to create the “soft” forms of her vessels and crystalline glazes for pools of intense colour.
House 03
Laura Fishman
Painting, Jewellery, Textiles
Laura’s paintings feature dynamic colour, texture and movement, drawing inspiration from nature and her worldly surroundings. Pushing the boundaries of materiality in her art, she gravitates toward the abstract in painting, as it allows her the freedom to interpret the world she sees through her own creative lens.
House 02
Lesley Andrew
Jewellery
Lesley Andrew has a particular interest in surface texture and processes with unknown outcomes. She works with silver, gold and stones to exploit and highlight the imperfections that can arise, creating unique and wearable pieces. Her work can be an organic response to materials, or a conceptual response to ideas.
House 18
Linda Freedman
Painting
Linda's work is evoked by the brightly coloured beach huts and huge seascapes of Brighton where she was born and spends many creative weekends. She recently graduated in Advanced Fine Art, whilst still working as a London local authority councillor- now retired. She is also a member of HGS Artists and often exhibits at the annual Hampstead Fair.
House 13
Lucy Alterman
Textiles
Lucy is a silk artist, she loves painting on silk, the delicate texture produces ethereal and emotional pieces. Her work focuses on the mind body connection with the universe and nature. She has developed techniques using organic mineral pigments similar to the silk painting methods used in ancient China.
House 02
Maria Khaydich
Painting
Maria is an artist who possesses a profound love for color and nature, and this is apparent in the art pieces she creates. She employs a range of techniques and mediums, including watercolor, pastel, and tempera paint, to bring her artistic visions to life.
House 08
Mike Coles
Photography
While documentary photographer remains Mike’s first love he constantly experiments with various digital techniques always looking for something new and interesting.
House 16
Mike Hancock
Ceramics
Mike draws on his experience of meditation and the personal realisations that it brings, as well as a connection with the natural world, to inform creations in clay.
House 10
Monica Peiser
Jewellery
Monica has been making and teaching jewellery for ever. Her pieces evolve in the making,often based around a semi-precious stone or found object. She has developed various surface textures giving an archaeological look to the silver. Leaves have influenced her latest collection,some true,some fantasy.
House 12
Natalie Baskin
Glass
Natalie is an experimental expressionist glass artist. She utilises diverse techniques to create individual, unique colourful, decorative and practical glass pieces for the home and garden.
House 06
Neville Morgan (Guest)
Photography
Neville is interested mainly in architectural, abstract and urban landscape photography. He strives for minimalism in his approach, searching for different views by exploring line, colour, shape, texture, tone and pattern, looking for interpretation rather than representation. He draws his inspiration from both the natural and the built environment.
House 5
Noriko Nagaoka
Ceramics
Her style of ceramics which is inspired by nature in Japan, Canada and U.K. using a layering glaze style and gravity to create one of a kind piece.
House 13
Pat Hewett-Marvell
Glass
Pat casts and fuses glass objects, sometimes engraving or sandblasting the surface to enhance the form. She is very influenced by the natural environment, particularly the coastlines of the North East and South West of England, both of which are rugged and wild.
House 17
Paul Squire
Painting
Paul Kingsley Squire harnesses central themes of metamorphosis and transformation to create a range of different works. In recent years he has been focusing on oil painting in his North London studio, through a series of otherworldly abstracted landscapes, abstracted figurative works, and surreal figurative paintings.
House 14
Penny Elder
Painting, Printmaking
Penny Elder paints semi-abstract landscapes, all from her imagination, but inspired by the Scottish landscape with which she is familiar. She also produces screenprints and monoprints, mostly abstract, and is exhibiting at 45 Summerlee Avenue N2 9QP.
House 16
Peter Hale
Ceramics
Peter enjoys creating both functional and sculptural ceramics using stoneware clay. Wheel thrown functional forms are finished with restrained glazing. Sculptural work is either thrown and glazed to enhance the form or constructed from rolled clay slab, unglazed. The form of all work is paramount.
House 08
Peter Kyte
Photography
Peter’s work currently focuses on Tree Portrait Cyanotypes, printed with different colour papers and a variety of ink underwashes, to enhance the blue print effect.
House 04
Rosalind Freeborn
Mixed Media
Rosalind Freeborn is a paper collage artist. She rips and snips her way through a wide range of paper to create figurative art. On show will be ‘life collages’ made directly from the model.
House 20
Sarah Higgison
Photography
Sarah's love of photography started at school producing joyful B/W imagery. She now spends a lot of time in France where landscapes and seacapes are plentiful and the ability to experiment with editing and enhancing colours is exciting.
House 10
Sarah Needham
Painting
(2022) A full-time gallery and international agency represented artist who has work in collections across the globe. Sarah is an abstract painter interested in the interplay between the history of pigments and the history of humanity and how, by using this rich seam of enquiry we can reflect on the 'now'.
House 18
Sharon Mitchell
Textiles
Sharon is an eco printer, printing the gifts of leaves, flowers and bark onto textiles, paper and other surfaces, also using plant dyes and food waste. Sharon cares about being an ethical practitioner, using organic and fairtrade products where she can and giving back by being a member of the Woodland Trust.
House 02
Steve Harper
Mixed Media
Steven Harper learnt to draw on used computer paper. Its codes were fascinating, sparking a lifelong relationship with a childishly imagined AI. The works on show draw on the aesthetics of early computer graphics, particularly echoing the 1968 ICA show, Cybernetic Serendipity, interwoven with ideas of humanity being recognisable through its failure to fully communicate.
House 15
Surinder Shani
Painting, Sculpture
Painter,Sculptor,Architect and Writer, his Paintings are in various forms,from figurative to obstetric in oil. Sculptures, large and small , mostely in throwaway materials, wood,metal and concrete.
House 09
Teresa Schippel Hales (Guest)
Printmaking
Teresa is a passionate printmaker, her particular discipline is photo etching using photographs taken everywhere and anywhere, (beauty in the mundane) focussing on heavily contrasted images with strong shadows, silhouettes and dynamic compositions.
House 1
Tony Berkman
Painting, Ceramics
Tony describes himself as an abstract artist who occasionally dabbles with figurative painting and drawing. His work is primarily concerned with conveying colour light and movement and is often informed by his experiences of travel and a love of the coast and also urban living.
House 19
Tova Lenkiewicz (Guest)
Textiles
Tova Lenkiewicz is a handweaver who draws inspiration from colour and patterns in architecture and the natural world. Her tapestries exhibit a fusion of colour, texture and composition which reflect her keen eye for artistic detail and mastery of the loom. Showcasing the beauty that arises from the interplay of these elements, Tova invites viewers to experience the convergence of nature and craftsmanship in her captivating works.
House 12
Trevor Mill
Painting
Trevor Mill paints portraits and other figurative works. He's had 4 solo shows and takes commissions.
House 02
Ulla Mead
Ceramics
Ulla makes sculptural characterful ceramic pots which are a playful take on classic container shapes. Most of her pots are raku fired.
House 15
Vanessa Hernandez
Textiles, Printmaking
Vanessa is a printmaker and surface pattern designer with a passion for vibrant colour, bold designs and patterns. Her influences come from the local flora and fauna of her local surroundings of London to that from her childhood spent in the Caribbean. She creates art prints, cards and gifts using traditional relief hand printing methods.
House 13
Veronica Lansman
Painting
Veronica Lansman (Vero) paints mainly in Acrylics. She uses a variety of media to enhance her work, whether it is pastels, pencils, pen, paper or card. Her love of nature is evident and people watching. She works from memory and real life to create vibrant works that are often semi-realistic.
House 07
Yorli Mendoza
Photography
Yorli explores nature’s symbiotic relationship to human beings, which elucidates that what we see and experience in the physical world is like a mirror and can become a manifestation of our emotional wounds. Yorli seeks to explore the relationship between nature and humans and how these two influence each other.
House 04
Zitta Smith
Jewellery
For bead weaving, to create three dimensional beaded forms, Zitta Smith needs only a needle, a thread, and identical cylindrical glass beads. This became possible when in the 1990s a Japanese company began production of these precision beads in more than 500 colours, different sizes and varied finishes.
House 04