In the studio 2025. Photo by Yanis Angel
Vice Versa group exhibition, shown here at Lea Bridge Road Pavilion, Leyton, London as part of the Terrace Gallery programme - will be travelling to MIRROR, Arts University Plymouth - October to December 2025 - exact dates to be confirmed.
This exhibition, curated by Johanna Melvin, was selected to be part of The Errant Collaborators, (A Play Within a Play) by artist and curator Dan Howard Birt.
Photo by Paul Tucker.
Now featured on Artsy . We launched this new collaboration at They Come They Sit They Go Project Space, Finch Cafe, 12 Sidworth St, London Fields, London E8 3 SD in May 2025. Further developments to be announced soon…
About my Work.
I’m a London-based abstract painter whose work is inspired by urban landscape, architecture and the grid as a hard-edged planar device, which in my paintings is often contrasted with painterly gesture or ‘handwriting’. Colour and its ability to summon past memory, experience and sense of place also plays a part.
Other influences include music and story telling; some paintings could be described as process-led, non-linear visual diary entries in response to a given mood or state of mind.
Artwork titles are arrived at intuitively, evolving from snatches of conversation, prose or song lyrics, or from past recollections and preoccupations that imbue within the work.
My works on canvas, wood, aluminium and paper are featured on several online gallery platforms: Art Gazette, Rise Art
For all artwork enquiries please email : johanna_melvin@hotmail.com
News & exhibitions
2025
Further news about Postcards for Seyðisfjörður, a mail art project in collaboration with Sluice and LungA School, Iceland. Organised by H_A_R_D_P_A_I_N_T_I_N_G.
I’m delighted to have two paintings included in ‘The Scene by the Sea’ an exhibition mapping Southend-on Sea’s musical history in celebration of the Thames Group of Artists 10th Anniversary.
At The Beecroft Art Gallery, The Old Central Library, Victoria Ave, Southend-On-Sea, SS2 6EX.
(Gallery is closed on Monday and Tuesday.) Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the Thames Group presents ‘The Scene By The Sea’, a multi-discipline exhibition featuring work by over 30 artists and special guests including; Billy Bragg, Phill Jupitus, Wilko Johnson, Ian Dury, Vivian Stanshall and more.
Artists such as renowned painter Simon Monk, award winning sculptor Anne Schwegmann-Fielding, portrait painter Victoria Sills, photographer Dean Chalkley and assemblage artist Catriona Faulkner have responded to locations plotted on a map created by author/musician Will Birch, artist and former ‘Clash’ right-hand man, Kosmo Vinyl together with graphic artist Jules Balme.
The map and resulting exhibition is an exploration of many of the hippest clubs, pubs, discotheques, dancehalls, coffee bars, music shops and fashion boutiques that were pivotal in helping to create Southend’s rich pop culture heritage.
I have a work on paper in this exhibition: rose is a rose is a rose curated by Belinda Worsley and Caroline McCambridge and recently show at They Come They Sit They Go Project Space, Finch Cafe Hackney and 57w57arts 501 Fifth Ave, Suite 701, New York NY USA.