Bittersweet

I want to be clothed (detail)

Lisa Snook

The Walled Garden, oil on canvas 60x60cm

Bobbie Russon

Bittersweet, An Exploration of Innocence, new works by Bobbie Russon and Lisa Snook at

ST ART gallery, 13 Broadway Avenue, St Margarets TW1 1RH open daily 10.30am-3pm until 21st June.

David Jones

Monument

David Jones is showing his atmospheric, evocative paintings at Eleven Spitalfields until 24th June.

"As a young boy playing around my neighbourhood, I found the in-between places to be the most interesting... they were peaceful places where I could think, reflect, ponder, and just be..."

Geraldine Cox

I visited the Affordable Art Fair in Batterse Park on Friday which was buzzing with a huge variety of art and art-lovers and there seemed to be quite a lot of buying going on. I saw several pieces of work that I liked but this was the piece that I would have chosen to bring home with me. The Butterfly Collectors painted by Geraldine Cox as a study for a larger piece, I loved the subject matter, the colours and the brush marks - it is a small yet powerful painting. You can have a look at some more of her work on her website. The fair continues today.

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Carnero

weit und breit

Peace

Conflict

In the studio

Here is a selection of shots of my month long stay at this open plan space for artists. It was challenging, frustrating, enlightening and best of all, got me painting again. The most rewarding element was to be in a professional space where I could 'go to work' with no distractions.

Natalija Lovett-Turner

Gouache and pencil on board, 8x10 inches. Baghdad 1957.

Seed

Paper-pulp, gouache and indian ink on canvas board. 1991 10x7inches

Tree of Torment

Gouache, watercolour and indian ink on canvas board. 1991 14x10inches.

I never really came to terms with losing my Grandmother, we were very close and when she died I found it hard to continue painting, this was one of my last paintings from that time.

Natalija Lovett-Turner

Natalija Tile wearing her Latvijan national costume c1930s

Portrait of a Latvijan girl 1990 Gouache and poster paint on canvas board 10x12 inches.

Natalija was my maternal Grandmother. She was born on this day in 1915. She died in 1990. This was one of her last paintings. She painted all her life and was also a prolific photographer, cross stitch artist and knitter. She asked me to wear her national costume so that she could take photographs in colour as she only had b/w pictures. This painting is from one of those photographs.

Tree of Life

Gouache, watercolour and indian ink on canvas board. 1991 10x8inches.

This is one of a series of paintings I was working on 16 years ago. Trees have always been a favourite theme in my work.

Heather Wilcoxon

Red flower by Heather Wilcoxon

I discovered the work of Heather Wilcoxon on flickr - her paintings are beautiful, powerful, funny and political - she is based in the US and I really recommend that you look at more of her work. Her flickr page is here or you can see more of her work on her website.

One of the great things about being creative is finding inspiration in others around you and I like to let people know about other art that I have discovered. This has inspired me to set up a group on flickr called 'Artists You Should Know About'