CATALOGUE
HOME AT THE DEPARTMENT STORE
In association with ArtCan
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Curated by Rebecca Tucker, Jill Desborough and Eves Eveson
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Abel Kesteven
The care home
Pastel
57 cm x 59 cm
£425
I work in several different mediums including painting, drawing, pastel, collage, sculpture and monoprint making. I mainly work from life and I tend to focus on the interactions between people, or people and animals, (often horses). I have had work exhibited at the Mall galleries on several occasions and I'm a member of the Chelsea art society
Abigail Weston
Deptford Market 1
Yarn – various
139cm x 5cm x 5 cm
£300
In response to the theme 'Home' I considered my own fairly recent move to South East London and explored the vibrant Deptford market, not far from my new home. I took inspiration from shapes I saw within the market, particularly from rolls of material and hanging chains, in creating this knitted piece. I was also inspired by the array of colours I found, from natural sources such as grapes and man-made sources such as dresses. In addition, this piece explores the idea of tassels for the home and incorporates several beautiful yarn fibres including cotton, silk and merino.
Adele Love
Breathe
Acrylic on canvas
70 x 50 cm
£900
The paintings arose from an instinctive response to nature and made me reflect on how we can feel at home in many places rather than our actual mortar and bricks home. I think nature was a place a lot of people connected with and found peace through Covid. The title of this exhibition has also made me think about what the main factors are that make a space feel like home. The woods epitomised so much of what I associate with feeling at home and returning to nature. The woods were like a hug engulfing me from the outside world much like a home does. It became my space to be.
Alaa Shasheet
Composition 14-22
Mixed media and Acrylic on Canvas
50 x 50 cm
£1800
As someone who has moved frequently between places and countries, the concept of Home has become more of a feeling than a physical location for me. Home is where I feel comfortable, safe, loved and a sense of belonging, regardless of whether it's the same place I grew up in. Every place holds different memories, but I don't want to be attached to those memories. Instead, I carry Home with me, represented by my feelings, things I love, and people.
Alison Aye
Shifting To The Moon
Mixed Media
69 cm x 56 cm
£1200
In this piece I explore the destruction of our fragile planet and the potential for humanity to seek refuge on the moon. Using imagery that has shaped our collective consciousness, my collage depicts us clinging on to old values, resulting in the demise of our new lunar home.
Alison Lam
Mistranslation
Bronze with 23.5ct Gold leaf
27cm x 30cm x 27cm
£3200
Reflections on an nerodiverse home. My material choices - the unpredictability of molten metal and the element of chance that comes with creating sculptures - mirror the life I and many of us live: one that can be of uncertainty, flux and change. Depicting hidden layers of conversations within my own cultural heritage through the collaborative process of collecting and translating recorded conversations into Chinese calligraphy subverts the traditional form and use of calligraphy, creating a juxtaposition between the beauty of the written language and the honesty of the translated text. I have limited knowledge of reading calligraphy, this added another barrier to understanding akin to navigating the complexities of communication within the neurodiverse families and communities.
Amanda Blunden
We Smiled And Sighed
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
60 x 60 cm
£900
The theme of Home for me here is the looking back into childhood memories and time spent in blissful solitude in the area around my house in the Berkshire Downs and on summer holidays. I've tried to create an almost dream-like, other-worldly feel here - a rose-tinted view back into memory where I spent a lot of time living in my imagination.
Andrew McNeile Jones
Feeding The Swans
Oil on canvas
75 x 60 cm
£850
Home is our sanctuary, our safe space, the point on the graph of our lives where the x and y axis meets, the ground zero. It is about the place where we can most be ourselves. Not so long ago we were forced to work from home. Now some of us choose this, we can breathe. We can relax, kick back, sit at the end of the garden where the old stream still flows, share the day with old friends and maybe even feed the wildlife. Home is dropping down into low gear and letting everyone else rush by.
Anjali B Purkayastha
The Tropics
Acrylics
50 X 76 cm
£580
The theme of the exhibition resonated with my personal journey. I have lived in multiple countries - therefore, the question of what defines home is very important to me. Over time, I realized that, other than my family of course, being home comes from sense of being close to nature or of having easy access to nature. Home for me is really where the green is. These artworks are inspired by my surroundings and are a portrayal of the emotion of 'being home’
Anna Toppin
Kyoto Gold
Etching
50 x 71 cm
£295 framed, unframed available
Anna completed a fine arts DipAD at Wimbledon College of Art and went on to a career as set designer with LWT (ITV) she Travelled to Japan and Cambodia and interior design has influenced her etchings and monoprints. “Kyoto 11” is based on the kimono I wear daily that I bought during a magical Art Safari to Japan.
Anna Walsh
Cygnus Nebulosity (Christ Church)
Two colour screen print on metallic paper Limited edition of 4
30 x 40 cm / 40 x 50 cm framed
£400 (framed)
Cygnus Nebulosity (Christ Church) I feel fits in with this theme as it is a screen print made using a photograph I took of a swan in its home/habitat along the River Avon in Christchurch in Dorset. In contrast the title references the interstellar world and how we use the connections we have on earth to understand the world beyond.
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Barbara Petit Lisy
The house in Auchel
Oil on paper
27 x 35 cm
£150
In 2021, I published (La Voix du Nord publishing house) the story of my grandmother's life as a Polish emigrant to the Nord coalfield of France in the last century. The story, entitled "Le Voyage d'Albina" (Albina's Journey), was illustrated with 15 original paintings, including 12 oil paintings on paper, based on archive photos and memories. Four of them represent my grandmother's successive homes, like 4 pillars in her life, from Poland to France. It's in this house, my grandmother's third, that my father, the youngest of six brothers, was born and raised.
Benjamin Hope
Shielding Innocence
Oil on Canvas Board
40cm X 40 cm
£600
The theme of 'home' immediately resonated with me because much of my work is inspired by my daughter and the concept that 'home is where the heart is'. The subject of this painting, of my own hands shielding my daughter's, serves as a metaphor for one's home and family being one's safe space. I find the greatest truth in my work comes through in subjects such as this: in pieces where I have the deepest connection.
Brad Kenny
Carnaby Aura
Oil on Canvas Board
34cm x 44cm
£490.00
These London scenes were an attempt to capture the vibrant atmosphere of a beautiful city that can feel like home. Whether you're a tourist or a local there are so many aspects of London that make you feel a sense of belongingness. It maybe the location, the people or culture but it's somewhere irreplaceable, like home.
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Candice Wu
Of No Fixed Abode
Reclaimed Wood, Glass, Copper Wire, Plastic Projector Lamp, Electric Cable, Power Bank, Plywood Plinth, Magnets
76 x 28 x 38 cm
£1288
For many, home is the place they were born. For me, I felt like I did not belong. Moving to other countries, I could not find my footing either. What I did find, were lifelong friends who gave me a sense of stability and belonging; they were the embodiment of home. Through an inward journey of self-discovery, I have realised that home is not a physical place - it is within me. It is the light that exists in each of us, our individual spark, our soul. This I believe, is our true home. The journey to find my home has led to a deeper appreciation of my culture, that I neglected and of which I was even ashamed when I was younger.
Carole Bury
Limestone Scar
pleated ink drawing
40 x 40 cm
£425.00
My art practice revolves around both drawings and paper textiles, and all are derived from landscapes. Works reflect my love of nature and feeling at home and at ease within myself whilst in these places. The more I immerse myself in these chosen places, the more detail, joyous marks and spiritual calmness I aim to convey to the viewer.
Carolina Kollmann
Isle of Dogs Curve 2021
Acrylic on Canvas
w/ magnets google arrow heart
14" Framed/£850
The inspiration for the map was our rental, son’s local school and my home-studio in the atic, between the Thames and a City Farm called “Mudchute”. Long walks with our Dog, the green, the animals and the tranquillity, new friends, local pubs and first sales, made us soon fall in love with the island, feel secure and the place where we wanted to settle for good. This original painting was painted in winter 2021 the gold was added trying to catch the reflections of the Thames Sunset.
Caroline Banks
Searching
Acrylic and ink on watercolour paper
42 x 30 cm framed
£450.
The concept of home is something very personal, a theme I wanted to explore with a body of new work which has taken me down paths I might not otherwise have travelled. Home for me is a place of sanctuary, of calm in an often turbulent environment.
Carrie Stanley
Vital
Water based crayon on yupo
49 x 64 cm framed
£850
‘Vital’ is a work on paper that I made as a response to thinking about our watery selves -what flows internally and what enters and leaves our bodies. In this sense the body/my body is home. The womb and uterus as an incubus for life, the breasts and breast milk as a source of nutrition. Thinking about all the vessels and veins that serve purpose as life creating and giving organs. My body as a mother is home.
Cat Coulter
Draw Your Own Conclusions
Cyanotype on found drawer
43 x 39.5 x 13.5 cm
POA
‘Home’ resonates for me because a lot of family members are in the process of moving homes. This has got me thinking about house clearance and what we leave behind: that drawer we all have, full of essential stuff. Things we think we'll need. But we don't pay attention. While we’re not looking, our amassed treasures turn to junk: an overflowing clutter of disposable tat. The drawer becomes overloaded and stops running smoothly. What we are doing to our drawer, we are doing to our home. Our planet. Our future.
Cathy Green
Home is where the heart is
Porcelain
20 x 20 x 20 cm
£295
“Home is where the heart is” is about the importance of emotional connections over the concrete building itself. Home is about the people we surround ourselves with wherever that might be. No matter who you are with or where you are in the world, your home is the place where you have a foundation of love, warmth and happy memories. It might not always be the building itself, but being near your loved ones.
Cherry McAlister
Man on the side-lines
Oil pastel, oil stick & ink on 300gsm Fabriano paper
55 x 40 cm wide framed
£650
"Man on the sidelines" was made in the months after my father’s sudden passing at the end of last year. My child attends a forest school and in our daily journeys there were many questions regarding the loss of their grandfather. Surrounded by trees the work explores the light and colours between the gaps in the branches and leaves as I do my best to answer my little one. Constrained by the intensity of motherhood leaving little to no space to grieve.
Christine Watson PS 🔴
Iceland Valley
Mezzotint
12 x 10 cm
£150
This little cottage became my home for several days in September 2022 when the heaviest snow fell for 42 years in Iceland. We were 13km up a farm track and were unable to reach any surfaced roads. The farmer opposite our refuge would not let us leave until the roads were made safe so we had to make the tiny cabin our home for the duration. We were sad to leave after our confinement and still refer to the cabin as our Iceland home.
Claire Chandler
Hill Top
Acrylic on wood panel
50 x 50 cm
£850
Home, to me, is the country we are born in, and this for me is the UK. I know I’m home when I see the green rolling fields or a beautiful forest, to me this feels safe, serene, calming and soothing. Seeing what natural beauty our country holds makes me rather proud to call England my home. We may grumble about the weather, that just comes and goes, but our landscapes are with us forever, as long as we look after them. These spaces are to be treasured.
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Dave McCorry
Break Up The Family
Relief print
44x34 cm
£350
My recent work is an exploration of the theme of family relationships, dysfunction and break up through printing directly from various domestic textiles.
Djochkoun Sami
Facility
Mixed media on paper
70 x 50 cm
£1200
"Facility" explores the essential requirement for a space that offers both protection and security. In the forefront, a structure reminiscent of a dolmen takes form, harking back to ancient havens. However, the composition juxtaposes this with an austere, brutalist concrete edifice in the background—a possible bunker or specialized establishment. Even in our present age, armed with empirical insights into the "real world," a lingering sense of vulnerability persists. The specter of conjectural menaces continues to loom, leaving us unsettled and exposed.
Donna Loiola
Ol’ Talk. (Idle chatter)
Acrylic & Mixed Media
60 x 60 cm
£480.
As a person of mixed race who grew up in the Caribbean (Trinidad) and now living in the UK, the theme of ‘Home’ brings to mind connection, diversity, colour and celebration. My art work conveys the love for colour that I grew up with on the tropical island of Trinidad. Family gatherings , meals, friends coming home hold memories of love and care. I started painting vessels connected to both my Trinidadian and Irish roots as a way to remember home and the people who made me feel at home. It is said that …”home is where the heart is”….. and for me the tropical colours and vessels that we used to share food and drink and to celebrate with, symbolise the place and the people I hold dear in my heart.
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Elizabeth Griffiths
Stay At Home (Blue Nest)
Embroidery
18.5cm
£290
These embroideries explore the concepts of home, safety, protection, nurture, family and grief. The nests, each unique, explore the very different ways that the pandemic has been experienced by different people. The threads used in these nests have been salvaged from off-cut threads passed down by generations of stitchers, much like scavenged twigs used by birds.
Elizabeth Griffiths
Stay At Home (Purple Nest)
Embroidery
18.5cm
£290
These embroideries explore the concepts of home, safety, protection, nurture, family and grief. The nests, each unique, explore the very different ways that the pandemic has been experienced by different people. The threads used in these nests have been salvaged from off-cut threads passed down by generations of stitchers, much like scavenged twigs used by birds.
Elizabeth Nast
Kiss
Acrylic on Panel
25 x 18 cm
£395
Home is where the heart is, an unguarded moment of passion, in a place where they feel most comfortable, by the doorstep of their house. I love painting the ordinary in life whether it is people shopping, a pile of rubbish or a poster plastered on a shop front. The urban environment inspires me, I am fascinated by people, what are they thinking? How are they feeling? By painting portraits people going about their business, I celebrate that snapshot of time, making the viewer stop to think about how the small things in life can be interesting.
Elspeth Penfold MRSS
Falling Between The Cracks
Floor rope sculpture
203 x 203 cm
£900
Home can mean so many different things to people. I have lived in the UK. since the 1970’s but still speak of going home when I travel to Argentina. My multi-disciplinary practice incorporates weaving, painting, drawing, walking and writing. My spinning and knotting work draws on the Incan history and technique of ‘Quipu’ (knot work) and the Quechua language of the native Andean people. Collaboration and mapping are at the heart of this work. I am working collaboratively with the East Kent Mencap members who are adults with learning difficulties at EKM’s Herne Bay Day Resource centre.
Emma Foster
Lockdown Kid
Oil on Wooden Panel with Caplain leaf
50 x 50 cm
£3,500
With the theme ‘Home’ there couldn’t be a time when the home was more important than in 2020, when this piece ‘Lockdown Kid’ was created. When, around the whole world, each individual and family were required to stay at home, for their sake, for the sake of others, and for the sake of their country. This was a time when we spent the most time with our loved ones, home schooling, if necessary, working from home and learning a new way of living. Here is a portrait of my youngest and only son, Ethan, created in 2020, with his favourite device of that year, his PlayStation 4.
Emma Hill
My Soul's Home
Acrylic on Canvas
65 x 65 cm
£750
'My Soul's Home,' metaphorically explores the exhibition's theme, 'Home’. The abstract painting becomes a visual manifestation of the concept, where the vibrant and intricate interplay of colour mirrors the complexity of emotions tied to the idea of home, through the complexity of family relationships and friendships to being totally alone. While the external house you live in becomes your home, inside of you: your body houses, and is home to your soul.
This painting is a visual symphony, where colour is the language of our heart. Here, we experience home, not just a physical place, but a sensation, a landscape of emotions and memories that colours vividly spark to life."
Emma Price 🔴
The yellow dance
Oil on canvas
53 x 43 cm framed
£575
I've been fascinated by the concept of HOME for years ~ is it the place where we were born, is it where we feel an emotional connection too or is just that we are all passing through; I'm interested in how people interpret the concept as equally as how people respond to it.
Emmanuelle Orr
Aphinar
Screen-print on paper, edition of 20
35 x 50 cm unframed
£120 (unframed), £200 (framed)
In 1891 the poet Arthur Rimbaud was rushed back to France from Abyssinia, where he had lived for 10 years, with a paralysed and painful leg. As soon as he landed in Marseille, this eternal traveller, whom his former lover Verlaine had called “the man with the soles of wind”, had to have his leg amputated. Afterwards, he travelled across France on his crutches to return to his native Ardennes and the house of his mother, but he couldn’t settle there. A few weeks later, with the cancer spreading to his remaining leg, he made the long journey back to Marseille with his sister, hoping to go back to Africa as soon as he was better. He didn’t get better. In November 1891, just before his death, delirious with pain and morphine, he asked his sister to find out the departure time of the next boat for a place he called Aphinar.
Aphinar doesn’t exist. For the dying poet, it was the ineffable place he wanted to return to, the elusive home he had sought out all his life. Aphinar, the elsewhere always just out of reach, the home of those who wander.
Ernesto Romano 🔴
Pop Heart (lime)
C-type print (edition of 25)
30x20 cm
£280
My work is an old anatomical drawing of the heart and we often say 'Home is where the heart is' I always on the look for interesting combinations of colours and materials for my work.
I often use my own X-Rays which I transform with bold colours and addition of Swarovski crystals, glitter and platinum and gold leaf. The message behind these colourful X-Ray works is always of inclusion and diversity.
EVES
The Nail That sticks Out
Acrylic Spray paint on canvas
76 x 76cm
£1200
I strive to capture the essence of movement of the environment where I migrated to, the place I now call home. I am inspired by street art, its energy and colour, as well as its non-conformity to Fine Art principles. I try to capture both urbanism and landscape as a genre in my work. The paintings are established over many layers and the work is continually made, destroyed and recreated, leaving a remnant of each layer. The painting carries visual metaphors, words & motifs to develop a narrative of time and change. The composition is never fully realised until the end of the piece.
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Frances Featherstone 🔴
What Makes a Home
Oil on gesso board
43 x 34 cm(framed)
£795
As Gaston Bachelard says, ‘Inhabited Space transcends geometric space’. The dog and the lady give meaning to this space, making it a home, a world, a shelter and a place of dreams. The dog exudes friendship, love and loyalty, sentiments that create a home. The painting is painted in three-point perspective giving a much greater sense of the vertical and horizontal spaces. The house is imagined as a vertical being, the stairs lead up suggesting a withdrawal from everyday life on the ground floor. We see gateways to four different spaces but what lies beyond is left to imagination.
Francesco Conti
The Other Side
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 50 cm
£650
Painting buildings and interiors is one of the main themes in my work. The spaces are usually (but not always) void of people, because what I find most fascinating is the structure itself. I find that when people are absent, buildings manifest a personality of their own, and one that often reflects the lives of those that inhabited them. 'The other side', is the interior of a small hotel in East Berlin. The place was fully booked but oddly, I never met or heard anyone else. The black painting on the wall is meant to represent the unsettled feeling that I had while staying there.
Francis Kenney 🔴
Wherever You Are
Giclee print - Edition of 10
42 x 59 cm
£100
“Wherever you are” is part of an ongoing body of text pieces where the subject matter is the meaning and interpretation of images and language. Aphorisms and universal statements with ordinary words represent how we each relate to our world. I recently moved home, leaving a house that had been in my family for generations. The upheaval alongside huge personal family loss, have led me to think a lot about what home really is and where it is. The work directly talks about the notion of ‘HOME’ through the presence and absence within language. Home isn’t a specific place but a memory. The work and words are a submission to loss and love.
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Gavin Mundy
Lives Unlocked
Acrylic on Aluminium
39 x 39 cm (Framed)
£375
My painting of keys represents 'home', a potent symbol that encapsulates themes of security, ownership, belonging, and the emotional connections that tie us to the places we call home. It serves as a reminder of the importance of such spaces in our lives.
Careful scrutiny of this piece reveals three keys arranged in a triangle, upon each is a symbol representing Safety (Shield), Security (Pad Lock) and Stability (Triangle). These elements provide a framework on which our lives are built.
The lives of those with a key in their pocket is very different to the lives of those without.
Geraldine Molia
Unravelled Structures I
Mixed media: Moroccan pigments and copper leaf
35 x 35 cm (Framed)
£500
My work questions the relation between nature and architecture. Nature plays an essential role in shaping the design of buildings throughout history. Architecture built within the natural landscape represents a certain kind of poetic exploration. Architecture and nature guide us to navigate the world in both intimate and practical aspects, shaping the human mindset with an impact on everyday lives and society at large. I am fascinated by an architecture which enhances nature in a mindful way, using clear and unambiguous typologies, underlining the intrinsic qualities of both.
Gill Edwards
A Simple Feast
Mixed media
54 x 54 cm (framed size)
£650
Six adorned bowls, beckoning feasts, enfolding memories Cradle one in your gentle palms A ceremony unfolds Kinship unfurls Everyday vessels, custodians of our life stories.
Gillian Brett
Home is where the heart is
Moulded rice paper, metal, perspex case
56 x 21 cm
£400
I’m a home body by nature and linked the ephemeral nature of the rice paper cast with the grounding effect of including the metal key as a way of expressing this feeling. For me, the protective transparent box creates interesting light reflections, more importantly, contributes to the sense of safety and security, which is very much how I feel when I’m at home.
Greag Mac a' tSaoir
High Hopes
Mixed Media
53 x 53 cm
£650
These works come from a deeply personal series of works that address my own memories of a disjointed home life as a child during the violence in the north of Ireland in the 1970s, using materials salvaged from a house in the process of demolition. My works addresses issues of identity, memory and loss.
Gunn Ceramics
Lichen Candelabra
Glazed Terracotta
39 x 30 x 25 cm
£550
The Lichen Candelabra is a homage to the Mid-Century Modern era and a reminder of my childhood home in the 1960s. Crafted by hand in terracotta, I have sought to capture the clean lines, geometric shapes and minimal aesthetic of that period. The gnarly texture of the glaze over smooth clay, combined with the softly angular, window-like form, emphasises the mid-century trend of bringing the natural elements of the outside into the home. A feature that has continued to be an essential element of contemporary designed apartments and houses.
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Hana Horack-Elyafi
A Woman's Place is in the Home (Enlightenment is Ordinary)
J-Cloths, Nappy Liners, Quink Ink, Pins
£2000
I was the mother of a newborn, carer, and mourner of a daughter who had recently passed away. Life revolved around nappies, cleaning, grieving. Meaning was found in marks, moments and steps from kitchen to living room, from swings to shopping, from birth to grave and what is left behind
Hannah Pratt
Starlight Threads - The Beehive
Embroidery on Paper
40 x 50 cm
£350
So much of my work is created with home in mind, even though my work primarily focuses on the stars, home is always a consideration when I create my works. My work doesn't just explore space but more importantly looks at the cosmos from a human stand point and most of this perspective is rooted in our home, the Earth. In addition to this aspect of my work the piece I have submitted to the show are in part created by using photographs taken of the night sky outside my house in South East London.
Harinder Sahota
Darshan Kaur. Mum
Oil on board
55 x 45 cm
NFS
My parents settled in the UK during the early 60's. HOME was a far off place which continued to live in memories. My mother is incredibly talented. Her hands hold the secrets to cooking dishes and sewing the clothes from HOME. I remember as a child, she would buy fabiric at the market in the morning, sew a shalwar kameez that afternoon and be wearing it at the Gurdwara the very next day. Her friends would be shocked and amazed. She would giggle in delight.
Hedy Parry-Davies 🔴
Do you feel Safe at Home?
Mixed media collage
32 x 39 cm
£285.00
‘Home' has so many different meanings to people with such diverse 'habitats' around the world. This exhibition has inspired me to explore and examine our typical homes in Israel where I was born. Due to the political situation and continuous conflicts, all new homes have to incorporate a shelter-room against potential bombings. This is what ‘Safe Home’ means to many Israelis. My mixed media collage depicts a fragile interior that clearly cannot offer protection. The word ממ״ד (Mamad) which is repeated in the work, is an acronym for ‘Personal Protected Space’. It questions successive governments’ aggressive policies, and therefore the need for these private ‘bunkers’. It offers hope for peace when they will no longer be required.
Heloise O'Keeffe
Eliana Seated
Pencil on Paper
40.5x52cm (framed)
£3,995
I am really interested in how house hold objects such as a chair can transform the pose of the life model. For me the pose is one of the most important parts in conveying meaning in a piece and in this pose in particular the feeling of relaxation, reclining, feeling comfortable/feeling at home was very apparent. Not only is it such an important household item practically speaking, the emotion behind what these different items have to people is an extremely interesting theme and topic to explore.
Henny Burnett
Tooth Shrines
Glazed clay & synthetic resin teeth
5 x 32 x 16cm
£850
A semicircle of small ceramic houses with tiles of teeth stirs together memories of the childhood ritual of the tooth fairy with the more sinister ‘Hansel and Gretel’ fairy tale by the brothers Grimm. The home represents refuge, a place of safety. Subverting that idea is the story of a cannibalistic witch, with a house made of gingerbread and sweets acting as a lure for guileless children. These model houses are charmingly pink and ‘sweet,’ yet also sickly so, repellent. The small shrines are part of an ongoing project about aging and teeth, from the child’s tooth fairy to dentures in old age
Henrietta MacPhee
Firelight, 2023
Painted and glazed ceramic
38 x 38 x 18 cm
£950
Firelight is always burning. This ceramic sculpture of a hearth represents the traditional center of a home. I have always loved staring into a fire and being mesmerised by the colours and movement of the flames. Sitting by a fire draws people together by its warmth and light, at the fireside for me is to be at home. It also has a vital relationship with the art of ceramics as the heat of the kiln completes the work. Fire is central to my practice.
Henryk Terpilowski
Dziad i Baba
Mixed media
120 x 130 x 170 cm
POA
Dziad i Baba (The Old Man and his Wife) is a 19th C poem / folk tale by Polish writer Józef Kraszewski, which deals with the approaching death of an elderly couple. It was read to me as a child from an edition published in 1958 with illustrations by artist Olga Siemaszko, which depict the couple hiding in their cottage from 'death' which has come knocking at their door. This installation is based on one of these illustrations (which is included in the work) which shows 'death' as a figure wearing boots finally descending down the cottage chimney in persuit of the couple who had refused to answer the door.
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Ian Butcher 🔴
Thai Hut
3D collage
61 x 46 X 9 cm
£1250 (A5 size version £60)
Across our world the places people call home vary enormously from palaces to a spot on the pavement. What interested me about this home was the fact that, for obvious reasons, life is lived as much outside as in. The space inside is probably reserved for sleeping and the only privacy they have in the world.
Ingrid Barber 🔴
A Special Place
Ink image transfer
62 x 81 cm
£500
Much of my work is about home and the nostalgia of familiar and lost places. Home is everything to me, a comfort zone away from life's stresses and a place to regroup with my crazy family and animals. "A special place" is my favourite place in the home, my corner chair with the squashed cushions where I sit with a glass of wine and a book.
Isla Jones
After Disappearing
Digital print and acrylic paint on MDF
44 x 36 cm
£720
In exploring the convergence between human form and hidden architectural image, the work becomes a vessel to explore the corporeal and constructed. The intrinsic relationship between our bodies and the spaces we exist within is investigated, fostering a visual dialogue that speaks to the shared human experience; perpetually intertwined with the structures we inhabit, and have previously dwelled within. In this intersection, questions of identity and the essence of ‘home’ unfold.
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Jackie Smith
Into the Green : Woman Walking
Lino Etching
50 x 30 cm
£245
My art practice explores my connection to place and my sense of belonging in specific landscapes. This etched lino print was made following a residency in Ireland where I often made work outside and developed ideas for work while walking. The piece considers the connection I felt and my experience of being in the vast limestone landscapes of the Burren, Co. Clare.
Jacqui Painter 🔴
Rock Pool
Acrylic on cradled panel board
30 x30 cm
£111
Rock Pool depicts a temporary home for sea life, it is a microcosm of the ocean and is an ecosystem home, in and of itself. The nature of rock pools is that they’re ever changing, temporary, but could be seen to provide temporary, respite and protection from the enormity of the ocean.
James Bristow
Rogue Waves 5a
Unique edition screen-print (1/1) on paper
55 x 74 cm (framed)
£530
My work is inspired by a quote from Roman Stoic philosopher Seneca: “We are waves of the same sea”. It’s a phrase that came to the fore during the initial outbreak of Covid-19 when it was written on boxes of face masks delivered to Italy by the Chinese company Xiaomi. These were sent as a token of gratitude to the Italian people from the Chinese company for making their staff feel welcome and at home when they opened their offices there in 2018.
In an age when politicians and media openly describe refugees and asylum seekers as “swarms”, “waves” and an “invasion”, my work seeks to portray an alternative vision, using abstracted waves of positivity to represent a collective humanity not defined by place, origins or borders. As Rakim (a slightly more contemporary philosopher) said: "It ain't where you're from, it's where you're at".
James Earley
Alone in New York
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 cm
£3450
The subject is a homeless lady who is sitting by a bus stop in New York. The world moves so fast around her whilst she sits in silence and reads a book whilst making notes at the same time. Like so many of the homeless she has a story to tell. I have met so many homeless people who see the cold and lonely streets as an escape from their home, their abuse and their trauma. I wondered what she was writing, I thought of her dreams as a child, I thought of the injustice that these dreams were stolen from her.
Jan Lee Johnson
Monet in his Garden
Acrylic on canvas
50 x 70 cm
£600
Monet lived in his house in Giverny Northern France for over 40 years. I visited it a few years ago and was amazed at his bright yellow kitchen, red and cream floor tiles, emerald green paintwork and blue delftware,inside the pink exterior- all chosen by Monet to blend with the colourful garden. His home became a living work of art, and he popped his easel up around the house and garden as the colours and shapes merged together.As I studied many photos of Monet it became apparent his clothes were equally important,- he wore suits in shades of pinks and blues and lilacs and wore frilled bold shirts. His home was an expression of Claude Monet’s creative colourful life and a wonderful legacy. I enjoyed painting Monet, in a rather loud suit and his portrait reveals a kindly face as he overlooks his garden.
Jane Higginbottom
Simply Walk Home
Cotswold stone on wood base
50 x 25 x 10 cm
£900
My home is my safe place and as I live on the first floor my views to the front are of rooftops, chimneys and plane trees. The view from the sitting room is filled with an apple tree which changes throughout the year and is full of life. It protects me from the flats behind screening out noise and provides me with fruit. The sculpture Simply Walk Home came from the concept of seeing your home with fresh eyes as if you had never seen it before. It is the roof tops and street plane trees that I noticed the most. I have made a lot of work about the 27 plane trees in my street.
Jane Pickersgill
Switch House
paper, textiles, thread
50 x 50 cm
£700
The concept of home / belonging is central to my work. I recontextualise materials, taking those associated with one tradition or discipline and finding them a new home in another context - the practice of fine art. I'm interested in transformations, in social mobility, in the realisation of ambition. There is an autobiographical aspect - I come from a working class family in the north but moved to London to become a fashion designer. I am influenced by a phrase from A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit "the explorer ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else".
Jennie Sharman-Cox
Behind Closed Doors
3D mixed media
35 x 25 x 3 cm
£650
We never know what goes on behind closed doors. For most of us home is a safe place where we feel comfortable and secure. Sadly this is not always the case and is probably nothing new.
Jess de Zilva
remember the call
Oil on aluminium
28.5 x 23.5 (framed 3cm deep)
£650
I am particularly fascinated by the subconscious motivations of people, as well as the multi-faceted and complex aspects of inner dilemmas, battles, and confusion. My work characterizes mostly figurative works as psychological realism. While my painted allegories convey "the reality of the psychological experience over the observable world" she paints in a realist manner.
We walked the hill after school every day. Me being stupid, climbing lampposts, drawing on the road with nicked chalk. She ahead of me, enough to claim she wasn’t involved, close enough for me to tease her for being ‘perfect’, begging her to ‘cooome oooon!’. She never did, but her not leaving was an invitation to join her and return to ‘normal’.
Arriving at her house we could see the building by the woods where I lived. Through the doors. ‘Helloooo!’ The curly phone-wire extended as I dialled her number.
I miss those calls. She was the perfect friend. Still is.
Jill Desborough
Sentinel 3
Ceramic, copper and mixed media
54 x 41 cm
£1100
It’s in woods that I feel most deeply at home. The individual characters of the trees, the wonderful quiet apart from noises made by the multitude that make their homes here, the green mysterious distances that draw you in and on. "Sentinel 3" represents a forest entity, rooted in folklore, a guardian of these precious and threatened environments.
Jo Angell 🔴
Ah...you're home!
Acrylic
43 x 53 cm
£575
Our cat used to look through the curtains of our house from the first floor and run downstairs to greet us. I never realised until she died how her presence echoed so much of what home meant to our family and her occupying every space within it. Every photo (of which my son and I took many!) were taken within our home.
Jo Hathaway 🔴
What I Think About When I Think About My Mother'
watercolour on paper
25 x 35 cm (mounted and oak)
£395
Home is a feeling not a place, where the heart flies and rests, and this feeling of being transported back to 'home' by a picture or letter, conversation or feeling, is what I find inspiring about the theme of this exhibition. This exhibition gives me a perfect opportunity to focus on the work about my mother's place. It shows my mother sitting at her table having breakfast, alone, as she does every day, as seen from the cupboarded stairs down from my eaves bedroom - this painting is called 'What I think about when I think about my mother'.
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Joanne Olney 🔴
Nightfall
MixedMedia
17 x 22 cm/ 52 x 42cm Fr
£265
Home can be an anchor, a sanctuary, where authenticity is cherished and safety is a given. It’s a return destination, a custodian of time and a keeper of memories. It’s where the highs and lows of family life are shared. It’s the place where the ‘magic’ may happen. These Victorian houses captivated me, momentarily connecting me to the lives of past and present occupants.
Jonathan Armour
The Medusa Stage
HD video 1920x1080
PoA
My time-based digital work called "The Medusa Stage" is name after the Medusa Stage in the development of jelly fish when the polyp ejects the young jelly fish to drift in the sea. In human terms it is a reflection on the process of leaving the parental home and forming new connections and groupings in the early phases of adulthood, as one explores the world beyond the home.
Julie Brixey-Williams MRSS
Unfolding Shadows
Stitched wool underlay, Chinese ink, metal carpet fasteners,
mixed media
£3960
Carpet underlay is a repellent, domestic material frowned upon in a typical white cube space, thus becoming an unexpected patch for creativity to flourish. It’s obvious relationship with the domestic interior, I deliberately choose underlay for its sense of stripping back and looking beneath, where the enmeshed fibres reflect both the political chaos we are currently experiencing, and an ability to offer a warm, secure and rich diversity that creates a firm base to promote a spring in the step. In the Home - our place of security and refuge - underlay’s role of bringing the decorative carpet to the correct height for life to play out over it for instance, suggests it can also operate to change perspective as we navigate ruckles and bumps. This makes it a strong advocate to adopt a more tensile and creative positioning, so we may navigate the stressful times in which we currently live.
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Karl Singporewala RIBA RWA
The city's yours
Photo-etched brass
34 x 34 x 28
£1450
Everything is architecture and I see architecture in everything. I even see it in you all. So take it all, the city's yours, it's worth fighting for, it's all mine, it's all yours. The places I built for you all, come find them when you find yourself, come find them and call them home. I’ll be waiting for you all, at the centre of the city, my city, my home.
Kate Marsden
My Grandparents' Bed
Mixed Media on Canvas
53 x 43 cm
£260
My recent work focusses on feelings, emotions and grief, with many pieces looking back to times in my childhood. My Grandparent's Bed is one of a series of paintings made in 2022 inspired by photos taken by my Grandad in and near our/their homes in Horsham, Sussex, during the first 3 years of my life. I used to stay with my Grandparents regularly (despite living next door at the time) and every morning I would sit in the middle of this bed while they told me tales from their childhoods and the war. Some of my happiest times were in this home (and curled up with my favourite people in this bed).
Kate Wilson
Den
Oil on Board
24 x 15 cm
£760 framed
This small oil study is of one of many dens seen on Wimbledon Common and in Oaks Park Carshalton. These makeshift structures bring back happy memories of building Eeyore houses with my Dad and the imaginary games played in and around them as a child.
Katya Kvasova
Blue & Yellow
Oil on canvas
35 x 50 cm
£450
This piece is from “Spaces. No faces” series which is based on my fascination with human inhabitant spaces and the concept of multiple worlds existing within one another. I create semi-abstract interiors containing suggestions of entrances to other spaces; like a corridor, a door, a window, or a picture frame. To me it’s a good analogy to life and its multidimensional nature with multiple possibilities for outcomes. The space here in particular is reminiscent of a home environment, maybe a living room.
Kira Phoenix K'inan
Superposition Sea Circle & Square
Glass Circle:15.5 x 15.5 x 7cm
Square:19 x 19 x 6cm
£2,165
The work originally started as a desire to return to one of my creative homes, sculpture, and incorporating a material that makes me feel at home in my studio, glass, to create free standing objects that could be viewed from any vantage point. There is also an element of nostalgia with this body of work as some see candy, or clouds, or bubbles and most are very curious as to what the surface feels like. As this body of work has continued to evolve the latest iteration has been The Superposition Sea series. These works remind me how at home I feel when I am standing at the edge of the water on the beach letting the sea wash over my feet.
Kristine Narvida
The study of annoyance 7
Oil on canvas
30 x 40 cm
£1270
I’d like to think that the physical touch of home land, breathing in the forest air, the screaming of seagulls during the early morning hours in the city, the sound of cars against the pavement are what makes me feel at home. The comfort of the physical senses is like a genetic foundation, which participates in the construction of my thought process.
Home is the ability to return to myself and to be in the safety zone of that space, given to me by my experience.
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Laura Gompertz
Striped Jug 2
Oil on canvas
34 x 34 cm
£370
I have been working on a series of paintings of family china. These loved items conjure up home through the generations, from my grandparents’ painted bone china to my children's favourite jug.
Laura Gompertz
Imari Jug
Oil on canvas
34 x 34cm
£370
I have been working on a series of paintings of family china. These loved items conjure up home through the generations, from my grandparents’ painted bone china to my children's favourite jug.
Laura Parker
Counter Balance
Mixed media inc. acrylic, pen & pencil, on cradled wood panel
50 x 50 cm
£475
What is ‘home’? It can simply be a feeling of belonging that resides deep in our psyche, a safe place we long for and that we sometimes discover unexpectedly. Alternatively it can be somewhere that we seek to make into a welcoming abode for ourselves and our family within a busy modern metropolis. “Counter Balance”, although an abstract work, can be seen as our searching for the warmth of a hearth and home within an urban jungle, emphasising how a ‘home’ increases our individual sense of existence within the world at large.
Lawrence Mathias
Homes
video
The video ‘Homes’ explores the chosen theme of the exhibition in an animated spoken poem, casting the definition of a home in the broadest of terms. The video takes a historical, human and non-human perspective on what constitutes a residence, and pushes it in all kinds of related, if unexpected directions. A home can be a shelter, a ship, a hive, a web…the lists goes on, but the one unifying characteristic of all of these definitions is that they harbour life and provide the fundamental platforms for experience, which the short film seeks to celebrate.
Lawrence Mathias
Locked In
Watercolour on paper
68cm X 50cm
£750
A response loaded with personal symbols to the Lockdown period, when so many of us were locked into our homes with their old associations and memories as constant companions.
Linda Chapman
Strati
Photography
50 x 50 cm
£495
What does home mean? I believe it means so many things, each one so very personal. To me, it's not just a place but somewhere that I feel warm, safe and content. A place of happiness when I am creating. The streets are where my images are made, the more I explore them, the happier I feel and when I find the right image, there is warmth and contentment. This image is somewhere I use to happily live for some time and I took this on a sunny day because I could feel the warmth from its colours.
Lisa-Marie Price
Below The Surface
Handmade watercolour from black sea coal on paper
58 x 58cm
£550
I feel the theme of 'home' resonates with my work as I use earth minerals from places that are meaningful to me and to others. A sense of place features heavily in my work and its inspiration and I think my work would fit in with the theme of this exhibition. My work also speaks about our environment and how the climate is changing because of how we are treating the Earth, home for us all.
Liz Whiteman Smith
Succulent garden
Screen print Edition of 50
34 x 44 cm/30 x 40 cm Framed
Unframed: £90 /Framed £150
Home is where we are, it's a place we create by surrounding ourselves with people, animals and things we love. Cacti are the perfect plant, they require very little attention, just a bit of water and sunlight.
Louise Rieger 🔴
Weedswood Summer '75
Oil on Canvas
30.5cm x 30.5 cm
£495
My work of late has mainly referenced old photographs, family snaps and Polaroids of where and how I grew up. I choose images that tell strangely familiar stories to evoke complex emotions and elusive ideas. Nostalgic certainly, but also describing a feeling of absence. A fond longing for something that is missing, as well as bitter-sweet remembering. A kind of homesickness.
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Mandeep Dillon
Ripenin
Latex, steel chain
80 x 80 cm
NFS
Arriving in an envelope primed to swell, becoming a toy or a parody of entrails. Filling the void, the life of a party, jostled and buffeted, fleeting good cheer about to pop. Time passes, a cloudy bloom appears, a vanishing of lustre, a loss of buoyancy gives way to papery sacks.
Marcia Harding
The Long Journey Home
Mixed media
25 x 75 cm
‘The Long Journey Home’ exploring and celebrating houses where I have lived at four particular periods in my life: birth and early childhood in Guyana, growing up in London, living in Manchester and living in my current house, the first one that has felt safe enough to be called my ‘home’. I have chosen the materials carefully (including some of my mother’s original housekeeping notes), to reflect the colours, textures, memories (good and painful ones), the atmosphere, the relationships, the tensions, the few hints of light and hope, the multi-layered nature of how I felt/feel in these periods. The concertina shape represents the journey to safety and security and freedom.
Maria Yadegar
Bedside Table
Oils
23 x 25cm
£300
This is a very personal piece to me as it is my bedside table and tells the viewer something intimate about me and my home. It is also unusual; in that I don't usually paint interior scenes.
Marie Connery
Meet me in the hallway
Mixed media on canvas board
16 x 21 cm
Framed £250
These series of works have been inspired by Swedish-born, London-based interior designer Beata Heuman and her book "Every Room Should Sing" Our homes are part of our past, present and future. We have an emotional connections to space and objects. Songs, like our homes have a way of transporting us back in time and fills our imagination. Our rooms explore how we fill the space with spirit, feeling and meaning.
Marigold Plunkett
Slow Days
Dry point
51 x 45 cm
£270
A large part of my creative inspiration is based around the home, the everyday and what's familiar. It's the small mundane moments that are most significant to my work. I am always drawn to human relationships and quiet moments of contemplation.
Marsha Roddy
Paper Bonds
Paper, thread, copper wire, coat hanger
200 x 80 x 80 cm
£2500
This sculpture celebrates womanhood and focuses on the idea that women have the ability to create a home wherever they go. It highlights their nurturing qualities, their support for one another, and the love they bring into the world. The sculpture visually depicts the concept of unity and solidarity among women.
In this piece, the sculptures of women appear to be holding hands. This simple gesture conveys a powerful message that women can overcome challenges by joining forces and supporting each other. It represents the idea that when women come together, they can create a supportive and loving environment that radiates outward, positively impacting the world around them.
Maz Weineck
Water Gardens
Mixed veneers
22 x 31 cm
£950
My artwork is predominantly inspired by architecture and often celebrates places where people live. To some the shapes in the art I have submitted might appear to be abstract but those who call the Barbican home or those who have a familiar fondness of the Barbican will likely recognise the distinctive pattern of the estate's Water gardens.
Melanie Jordan
Homespun
Textile
65 x 40 x 40cm
£500
Home and family are very important to me. As a mother I feel that I am at the very centre of my family home, providing the foundations of family life. My knitted / crotched sculpture was created in the heart of my home with family life going on around me. Conversations with family are woven into the sculpture as I worked, and it reflects everything that home and family means to me. The work uses repurposed wool, and unfinished knitting projects donated by family and friends.
Mimi Zouch
Soft Haze
Acrylic painting sculpture on paper
25.5cm x 31.5cm framed
£320
My artworks are almost all inspired by my walks in nature. The woodlands and heathlands are a great sense of comfort to me, a place I can breathe and feel surrounded by feelings of ease, letting go of stresses in life. Essentially these spaces in nature are my home from home. While exploring I capture colour interactions, patterns, textures and movement in photographs, videos, sketches in my pocketbook and also in my mind, then when I’m get home I translate what I have seen into paintings and paper sculptures.
Miranda Lopatkin
Patterns
Archival print on heavy weight fine art paper
44 x 44 cm
Framed £395 / Unframed £150 / edition of 30
Much of my work centres around the theme of home, fascinated by the stories the home holds, the shadows and secrets the home holds within.
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Pernilla Iggstrom
Lost and Found, 2021
Performance by Pernilla Iggstrom and KV Duong, Supermarket Independent Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden, 5 min (edited)
NFS
My art and curatorial practice is an investigation into my personal cultural heritage – a journey which explores the effect of my own identity of being born into one culture, then subsequently being adopted into another very different one, thousands of miles away.
I left Sweden 27 years ago and have lived in 3 different countries since then. I have always felt my home is wherever I have lived and have learnt that home is a place within you. Not an external, physical place. Constant though, throughout all these years, has been Sweden which I also call home. It’s where I grew up, where my mother has always lived – a pillar, a haven I have always been able to return to whatever life has dealt me. My mother passed away earlier this year, and although I have siblings in Sweden - now more than ever, home is within me, where I am.
Lost and Found explores nature/nurture, how it is to grow up in a place where you look and feel different, and the process of integrating with your community and society as a whole.
Phil Cope
Nestling
Alabaster and Blackthorn Wood
20 x 15 x 24 cm
£600
My piece ‘Nestling’ is an abstract sculpture in which a small white Alabaster stone fragment is located within a wooden surround. This wooden element can thus be seen as a “home” or protection for the stone fragment (which, since it is egg shaped, might suggest vulnerability). The protective nature of the surround is further emphasised by the fact that the bark of the tree forms one side of wooden piece.
Pippa Beveridge
Longing for the land of your memories
Cast glass, textiles
45 x 10 cm
£2250
Having spent more than two decades living in another country before returning to London in 2017, the subject of home and the memories it evokes have been constant sources of inspiration in my work. The printing wheel on display, ‘Longing for the land of your memories’, is part of an ongoing series. Its motifs in relief were inspired by the patchwork pattern of wallpaper remnants that remain on the walls of newly demolished buildings. Now exposed to passers-by, they reflect the times and tastes of their former residents, while becoming a metaphor for memory and home.
Prithi Brinkley
Wild Heart Part II
Photography
55 x 80 cm
£680
"Home" has a meaning for me which has evolved since becoming a mother. It has changed from a physical space to a feeling of contentment and warmth which I find from a little person. This image is a moment captured of my spirited and fun loving daughter in the middle of a fancy restaurant where she decided to release her inhibitions and start to play! "Home" will always be wherever her little 'Wild Heart' is.
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Qin Yue
The Other Shore, Present VII
Monoprint on Fabriano 250g Print Paper.
30 X 30 cm
Framed £645
I travelled from city to city, from East to West, the geographical boundaries of home became blurred and the concept of home became bigger. 'Home' is peaceful, happy and a spiritual sense of belonging. This work is selected from my 'The Other Shore' series. Through the abstract lines of the natural landscape, I have interpreted that peace and happiness which are the feelings of home come from the inner harmony of each moment, the harmony between human and nature.
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Rebecca Moss Guyver
Atsababy Life is Great
Egg tempera on panel
20 x 30 cm-framed 30 x 40 cm
£450
My home, including my garden, is full of things. I collect, assemble and then paint them. My paintings are part of my internal monologue. They are the what ifs of daily life - a response to my delight at the simplest things: colour, pattern, shape. Painting is how I make sense of the world and mostly I ‘flip’ it so that there is harmony and humour. The words for the title come from a song by the Tom Tom Club (1980s) that I couldn’t get out of my head …'Atsababy Life is Great’.
Rebecca Tucker
quiet under the apple tree
Acrylic and gouache on panel
51x51cm
£900
Home is where I find peace. But I sometimes have to try really hard to spare the time for this. A home can be a busy, demanding, emotionally charged environment. Children, animals, relationships, responsibilities, chores, the never ending to-do list. It’s often difficult to carve out time to just be, to allow the time to not think about the next thing that needs to be done.
Just outside my garden studio is a seating area, shaded by an old apple tree. On a good day, on a sunny day, or on a warm summers evening, to sit there, looking up through the leaves gives me just the time I need. To grab a little bit of peace and quiet. It doesn’t often last very long, before the indulgence of doing nothing becomes too much, but I know that even just the memory of those moments is a powerful, calming antidote to the overwhelming lives we find ourselves living.
Rian Hotton
Grounds I
Acrylic and collage on panel
42 x 59 cm
£990
Grounds I depict a large home within its grounds. Within the grounds the goings on of within the building are projected out. It is a play on the line that you never know what goes on behind the four walls. The painting is also referencing 'Grounds of the asylum'. The building referenced is in Sardinia. Documented while at Artist residency.
Richa Vora
Fading Memories 1
Inks and Pencils on Canvas
73 x 53 cm (Framed)
£1000
I am a London-based Indian Artist, I record and illustrate memories of different times and places in my life. For my current work I am excited to weave layers of drawings exploring fading memories of my growing son and hometown. Focussing deeply into my recollections and reminiscences, I produce an archive of intersecting memory-scapes, each layered artwork blends people with memories from my journey, connecting them to the present. Shifting from one country to another has made me realise that the ‘Home’ is wherever I am with my family. Hence this work is very special for me.
Ruth Richmond
Family Diversity
Chalk paint on Hazel Stems
220 - 180 x 5 cm various
POA
My practice touches on the themes of nature, the landscape and family. Based in a small sheep farm in Suffolk, my work, ideas and materials come within these surroundings. Family diversity is comprised of a family of coppiced hazel wood stems, selected, cut and embellished by Richmond with chalk paint and burned with incised lines. The process of decorating these hazel stems or ‘poles’, is meditative even maternal and is about ‘depicting landscape, relationships, [and] time and home.’
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Sally Burch
Looking Out – Summer
Mixed media on wood panel
63 x 63 cm
£600
LOOKING OUT is a series of works inspired by Matisses’s, “The Open Window’ where the window frames the outside landscape. Although my work is abstract and autonomous from pictorial space it is intended to suggest and reference a window and the landscape beyond.
Sandra Camargo 🔴
My Happy Place
Hand-carved Alabaster stone
15 x 10 x 5cm
£290
I was born in Colombia, and I lived there until 2000, when I moved to the UK. I went back to visit my family as often as I could, and I was always excited to go back "home". In one of my visits, I remembered being on the plane flying back to UK, thinking I had such a great time. I knew I was going to miss everybody, but I was also happy to come back to England. Somehow, I felt like Colombia was not a home for me anymore, I did not fit there. England was where I live, but it was not home either and that shocked me. I started questioning myself where home was for me, and then I realised I was homeless... I had that feeling for years. Now I know where home is, I am very happy to be here.
Sara Reeve
Fix Up
Oil on Panel
21 x 29 cm
£300
The theme of Home has inspired me to create a series of domestic self portraits - these two are the first in the series. I’ve been looking for ways to develop portraiture with narrative, and feel like this exhibition has given me inspiration to start a new body of work.
Sara Reeve
Morning Ritual
Oil on Panel
21 x 29 cm
£300
The theme of Home has inspired me to create a series of domestic self portraits - these two are the first in the series. I’ve been looking for ways to develop portraiture with narrative, and feel like this exhibition has given me inspiration to start a new body of work.
Sarah Bird
Affirmation Room
Pigment print on Hahnemule Baryta FB paper (Edition of 20)
50 x 70 cm
£295 unframed, £460 framed
‘Home' is a central theme to my work: growing up in an age of rapid technological advancement, I explore how this permeates our private lives and identities. I photograph handmade models of domestic liminal spaces, the colour and scale of which suggest both playfulness and control. Flooding these unrefined models with saturated light utilises the visual language of the technological while highlighting the limitations and uncertainty of change. My influences range from Dutch Interiors to Laurie Simmons’ Modernist Dollhouse. I take a painterly approach: composing, framing and manipulating light to create tonal range before building washes of coloured light to create a seductive but unsettling sense of 'home'.
Sarah Rawlins
Positive Energy
Acrylic
20 x 20 cm
£175
Home to me is a safe, secure, inclusive and warm environment. I was recently sitting with my parents in their garden and became inspired by the colourful patterns and interesting shapes the Petunia flowers created, which were proudly sitting in my Mum's hanging basket. Further research enlightened me to the fact that, according to folklore, these vibrant, pretty flowers flourish in 'positive energy.' This association is strikingly symbolic of my positive homelife and upbringing, which I will always be grateful for.
Sena Shah
Ruby Mosaic
Felt fabric on Board with reflective paper
60 x 60 x 5 cm
£700
A home is constructed and divided by walls depicted in my piece by the Frank Stella influenced multi- coloured squares. We all live within walls and boundaries but also can merge to produce radiance and cohesion depicted here by the Concentric red ruby glow. This piece transcends the boundaries we live in and shows how strength can build solidity beyond boundaries. Concentric circles are also used in Aboriginal art to depict a home or resting place.
Shelly Pamensky
Autumn Highveld
Glitter, glue, automotive paint on linen
70 x 110 cm
£1800
The notion of home is an ambiguous one for me. I was raised in South Africa with Israeli parents who always held the notion of returning to Israel in the future. I never quite felt fully South African nor Israeli. As an young adult I came to London which was meant to be a stop on the way to settling in Israel and nearly 27 years later after raising three children, I am still here. The theme of this exhibition has made me reflect upon this notion of home for myself and how it relates to my work. I find that my woven work calls upon my strong South African heritage. The act of weaving my paintings was such a spontaneous and intuitive calling for me because of its strong connection to my childhood and our family home. These woven works are a symbol of a home lost but never forgotten.
Shilpa Agashe
They Don't Bloom For Us - Field Poppies
Watercolour on Packaging Paper
40 x 40 cm
£150
For the last few years my work has focused on plant life. This year I decided to focus on wildflowers and document wildflowers growing around my neighbourhood. Through many walks on Hampstead heath and lots of reading and research on the wild flowers growing in the area I have realised how important a habitat wildflower meadows are for innumerable insects. I wanted to focus on making work that was informed by these wildflower meadows and their ability to support so many species. Homes for the smallest of living beings!
Sophie Ambelas
In Reaction
Ceramic
17 x 43 x 30cm
£150
Home holds many meanings. For some it is a haven for others it is far from that. Particularly over the period of COVID-19, most of us faced a breakdown in a relationship whether immediately in the home or the extended ‘home’ from home. ‘In Reaction’ is a visual response to those emotions of sharp and intense abrasiveness felt in relationship breakdowns. It is a vessel symbolising the containment of our home unit central to what our family is. The shape of the vessel is in continual movement, not straight, not stationary but rather like broken rips reaching out for something - anything.
Sophie Levi-Kallin, Jenny Kallin, Phoebe Bowman and Hamish Kallin
The Back of Number 13
Mixed media
42 x 30 cm (unframed) 51 x 40 cm (framed)
£425
This artwork is a collaborative piece, created with my mum, sister and brother, who I have exhibited alongside. All the sewn/textile parts are by me. The artwork shows the back of our family home, includes drawings of us from childhood by my sister and really sums up 'home' for us all. Exhibiting as a family and encouraging each other in our artwork has also strengthened our sense of home / family as somewhere that all of our different artwork stems from.
Stathis Dimitriadis
Repent
Ceramic with paper
16 x 16 x 16 cm
£420
The theme of home has a prominent role in my work.‘Repent’ is a work where I use the action of votive offering as a metaphor of our search for meaning in our lives and our need for a safe structure to protect ourselves from uncertainty.
Stefania Boiano 🔴
Faraway Valley
Watercolour & Ink on cotton paper
20 x 20cm - 32 x 32 cm walnut framed
£330
The theme of HOME deeply resonates with the key inspirations and motivations of my art. Having left my country, I've discovered that by traveling in nature to remote places and immersing myself in the ever-changing rhythm of the natural world, I find a sense of belonging and familiarity that transcends borders. In my landscape paintings I aim to encapsulate this profound connection. Elements like water, horizons, skies, evoke the true essence of home for me.
Su France
Tales Within
Intaglio Print
Unframed 29.7 x 42 cm
£325
Amongst the highlands, an ancient coastal tower, weathered by years of wind and surf, looms dark against the night sky. Bladderwrack seaweed frames the foreground, undulating in the push and pull of the tide. Within the structure, a lamp glows like a beacon, casting warm light on aged stone. The tower stands above the rocky shore, solitary but not abandoned, its golden lamp a welcoming glow in the encroaching darkness. Though battered by time and elements, the building remains, a reassuring sign of life and hope, a home aside the loch, where tales are told within.
Sylvie Millen
Empty Nest
Chicken wire sculpture, raffia, fabric and paint. Hazel branches
£1600 (indoor/outdoor use)
I wanted to portray a vessel like structure that was once occupied as a family home or a nest for a creature or a pod for seeds. Remembering the time when my own children ‘flew the nest’ to go to university, it was a time of transition and change, that left a temporary void in my life, until over time I adapted to the new version of ‘home’. When I see an empty nest or seed pod, it reminds me of the home it once was, full of life providing shelter and unconditional care.
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Taya De La Cruz 🔴
Skin Deep 19
Acrylic, Ink, Paper on Paper
31.5 x 31.5 x 6.0 cm
£830
As someone who comes from a broken home, to me, home has never been tied to a physical location, but rather a feeling inside. My own skin is my home, and that in itself takes endless work to be completely comfortable in. But is also the most important work you could ever do.
Teresa Zerafa Byrne
Isolation
Inks and Khadi paper on wooden panel
50 x 50 cm
£650
Isolation - This work was created in response to the time I spent in my home during Covid. Each of the segments is text produced from the digital photograph of each person I was in contact with via Zoom. The pandemic stopped the physical presence of these people in my home, so I created a work where their digital images were represented via yet another medium.
Tracey Elizabeth Downing
Lemon Soap
Acrylic and Flasche on cradled panel
52 x 52 x 4 cm framed
£500
My subject matter originates from memory and the unconscious, primarily executed in acrylic or oil paint. I am interested in visual metaphor and the response which an image elicits in the viewer. The activity of painting evokes memories and feelings that I can eventually attach to a time or place. Motifs occur in my drawings and paintings which are embraced and explored including 'noticings' ; things observed in daily life, abstracted in addition to those dreamt or thought of during moments of reverie.
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Uli Jaeger 🔴
Hanging Fishplate
Glazed porcelain
25 x 15 x 4 cm
£75
My art practice is object driven, using old, discarded, and ignored items we encounter within the context of the everyday. A big part of this involves working with containers, boxes and packing material, taking them apart, questioning their functionality, and enjoying their liminality in relation to space, hovering between 2D and 3D. I regard socks as containers… they surround my feet, offering protection and warmth. Hand-knitted socks carry weight and meaning… they’ve grown slowly out of a labour of love.
Most of the worn and often threadbare socks I use for my porcelain sculptures have been knitted by a German friend of mine. Our friendship goes back more than 40 years and has survived the storms of our personal lives, lived out in two different countries. Instead of throwing away these old socks, used by various members of my friend’s family, she collects them and passes them on to me.
For me, they build a bridge between here and there, her and me, transmitting a place that feels like home and representing acceptance, nurture and love. It gives me great pleasure to transform my friend’s now obsolete works of love into something new!
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Venetta Nicole
Black and white communication
Fabric (rug)
128x128cm £900
I am an artist that transforms her paintings into home ware. My art pieces are inspired by the theme communication, I use symbolism to create patterns that a variety of people from different cultures can relate to. At present I am creating a range of contemporary art inspired rugs that reflect this, I would like people to feel at home by having these pieces within their home that create the feeling of home for them.
Victoria Sills
Abode Version 1.0
Oil
45.3 x 76 cm
£1200
This most recent series of paintings have been created using deep learning models which generate images from text prompts including the phrase ‘a roof over one’s head’. The paintings aim to question our evolving relationship with artificial intelligence. The portraits are deliberately named as software would be labelled so as not to humanise them, but do the painterly texture and gestural marks convey more of a sense of human emotion and begin to create a relationship between the viewer.
Viv Owen
Muse
Oil on Canvas
40 x 40 cm
£400
HOME: a place of safety and privacy; to drop the social mask and be alone with our thoughts. The painting smuggles the viewer into this personal environment, unseen. Into an atmosphere rife with tension and anticipation. This painting was captured from mass media. Heightened brights and deeper shadows. Hues of lilac and crimson created by the warm yellows of the interior lighting. Domestic in scale but far from cosy. The painting retains the twitching dazzle of a paused TV screen. After a spell at HOME, we, like the protagonist, emerge ready to face the world once more.
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Wendy Brooke-Smith
Life on the Edge, County Kerry
Oil on panel
25 x 60 cm
£850
Rural life perched on the west coast of Ireland has a mindset and timeframe of its own: connectivity is fragile but community is strong. This painting is the view from the back door of a place I love to be - a parallel universe in pleasing contrast to the urban intensity of south London
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Yeside Linney
Letter to My Daughter 2
Acrylic and Mixed Media, resined
£695
For me, home is identity. Between the ages of 4-16, l lived in England, rarely seeing my parents who remained in Nigeria. So correspondence by airmail was a lifeline to a world that became increasingly unfamiliar. As a child fostered then sent to boarding school at 7 years old, correspondence with my mother in Nigeria was a tlifeline and a comfort blanket. After a serious rift with my parents when I was older, they binned all my airmail exchanges I had stored, hence they appear erased in the work.
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Zuzana Krskova
Winter Pause
Textile
40 x 40 x 2 cm
£480
My art is inspired by nature and working with plants. I create abstract artworks using fabric in a painterly way. My textile collages are made from plant dyed fabrics that are infused with a sense of time and stories of places. Nature is home. Family and community are home. Home is a feeling of connection and belonging. Sense of belonging, roots, community and how they shape our experience are some of the main themes that inform my creative practice.