Gas Gallery will be showing my work this weekend as part of the Pullens Yards Open Studios in London. It’s at Unit 21, Iliffe Yard, London SE17 3QA and the opening times are Friday 12th June 6.30.9.30pm, Saturday 13th June 11am-6pm, Sunday 14th June 11am-6pm. More details on the Open Studios here.
Following a couple of great weekends selling pictures and talking plants, flowers and photography at the Dulwich Festival Artists’ Open House, it’s now time for the 2015 RHS Chelsea Flower Show. In this Sunday’s Sunday Times Style Magazine there’s a double page spread which I shot in collaboration with Flora Starkey, a floral designer who is currently working with garden designer Jo Thompson on the M&G garden retreat show garden at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show.
With the the Artists’ Open House now on as part of the Dulwich Festival, Gas Gallery will be showing my work on both weekends of the Open House at The Stables, 41 College Rd, London, SE21 (11am-6pm on 9/10 May and 16/17 May), where you’ll see a range of framed and unframed work. I’m also attending a group show at 158 Overhill Road, East Dulwich SE22 OPS this weekend (11am-6pm on 9/10 May) where there will also be a garden café on site. One of my new images on show will be Anemone 1.
It’s been another busy weekend with two fairs at the same time (!) – The Affordable Art Fair in Battersea and Midcentury Modern in Dulwich. It’s always a great opportunity to meet the public to get feedback on the new work. There’s been a great response to my new plants studies, especially the mixed plant still life images. I now have to sort out the printing and framing orders, including some large framed orders of the image below, Mixed Plants 1, one of my studio compositions of various plants and flowers (including Philadelphus, Parthenocissus henryana, Humulus lupulus ‘Aureus’, and common blackberry flowers) which I grow in my garden or up at the allotment at Knight’s Hill.
Some of my Christmas orders all framed and ready for delivery.
This weekend, 5-7 December, Pullens Yards have their winter open studios and Christmas sale. Gas Gallery (13a Iliffe Yard) will have lots of my new prints on sale and you’ll find them above the Electric Elephant cafe.
Apart from never getting round to eating my lunch, yesterday was a fantastic day at the Midcentury Modern show at Dulwich, London. It was great to meet new buyers and catch up with returning customers whose taste for furniture and interiors certainly matches their interest in art and design. Getting everything over to the show (which, it must be said is very close to my house) wasn’t exactly easy in the pouring rain, but I was amazed to see the crowds of people who braved the weather. Modernshows, who organise the fair, have now included me in the Modern Marketplace page on their website. It’s a good place to find vintage and modern makers and suppliers of furniture, design, artwork, ceramics etc.
The other-worldly charms of Smyrnium Perfoliatum – one of the last A3+ prints which I’ve been mounting in beautiful, 3mm thick museum board window mounts for the shows this week. I’ll have a stand again at the Midcentury Modern show at Dulwich College, London, SE21 7LD on Sunday 23rd November and the evening opening of Gas Gallery’s showroom, 13 Iliffe Yard, London, SE17 3QA is on Thursday 27th November from 6.30-9pm. Please join us to see the new work and enjoy a glass of wine.
Gas Gallery will be exhibiting my work at their showroom at Iliffe Yard, London, SE17 3QA throughout November and will be having a special viewing featuring my work on Thursday 20th November from 6.30pm. I’ll be there all evening so please drop in to join us for wine and to see some of my new prints. The entrance is via The Electric Elephant Cafe (186a Crampton Street) which will also be serving food that evening.
At the end of November, I’ll have a stand again at the Midcentury Modern show at Dulwich College, London, SE21 7LD. It’s a great opportunity not just to find excellent examples of vintage furniture but upstairs there will be, along with my work, a fine selection of contemporary furniture makers, ceramicists, upholsterers, designer-makers and artists. The food and coffee are also excellent!
One of my images is now available as one of the new wallpapers for iPhone users who have IOS 7 or 8. It’s been chosen by Apple as one of their new range of minimal plant pictures. iPhone users can find it by going to Settings>Wallpaper>Choose a new Wallpaper>Stills and you’ll see it, fourth row down. Alternatively there’s a link http://freeios8.com/ac97-wallpaper-ios8-apple-iphone6-plus-flower-minimal/ It was taken from a shoot I did of an Allium Hunton.
Here’s one of my new autumn leaves series, shot outdoors using natural light. The leaves include Liquidambar, Vitis, Acer, Prunus, Betula, Platanus and Cyanococcus.
Programme on the House and Gardens at Great Dixter and the work of the late, great Christopher Lloyd.
Next week Gas Art will have my work up as part of its display at the Buy Art Fair in Manchester. The dates are 26-28th September.
I went to Photographers’Gallery yesterday and loved this exhibition of half sculpture half photography by Loenzo Vitturi. Full details of the show here.
Here’s one of a number of pictures taken during a recent visit to Burgundy. It’s part of a blog-style album on my Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/kevinduttonphotography
Striking colours of lichen seen whilst walking in Langdale, Lake District. This is from a series of pictures I’ve put on my Facebook page : https://www.facebook.com/kevinduttonphotography
My work will be included in this forthcoming open studios in Illiffe Yard, Kennington, London where Gas Gallery will be showing artwork from all their artists in their new showroom space.
As part of this year’s Clerkenwell Design Week, some of my pictures will be as part of an exhibition at the Dreamspace Gallery, 3 Dufferin Street, London EC1Y 8NA. There will be an evening opening with drinks and music on Wednesday 21st May. The festival is on from 20-22th May.
This weekend I’ll have a new 60″ x 45″ print on show of North Downs 1 at Gas Gallery’s exhibition at The Stables, 41 College Road, SE21 7BA, near Dulwich Park. The show will be from 11am-6pm on 17/18 May. For more information on hundreds of other open houses and exhibition spaces: http://www.dulwichfestival.co.uk and http://www.dulwichfestival.co.uk/openhouse
This year I’ll have some new work on show at Gas Gallery’s show at The Stables, 41 College Road, SE21 7BA, near Dulwich Park. The show will be on both weekends – 10/11 and 17/18 May. For more information on the festival: http://www.dulwichfestival.co.uk
Here’s a feature including a clip from me doing an interview with the German TV arts program Euromaxx, discussing The Affordable Art Fair and online gallery Riseart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As9S8Y38k6Y
There are new prints on show this weekend including this print, Cirsium 2.
I’ll be showing my prints again at the excellent Midcentury Modern show on Sunday at Dulwich College, London SE21 7LD.
With only a week to go before the Affordable Art Fair at Battersea, here’s one of the my new images which will be on sale at Gas Gallery’s stand.
For anyone who missed last Sunday’s show at Midcentury Modern, here’s another opportunity to see some of my prints this weekend. My work will be at the Gas Gallery showroom but there’s lots of other stuff to see and do.
Here’s another new print which I’ll have on show at Midcentury Modern this Sunday. Prints will be available in all sizes, framed and unframed. Prices from £60 – £575.
Here’s part of an interview which I’ve recently done with Rise Art which they’ve just put up on the website. The link for the full interview is http://www.riseart.com/article/2013-11-25-spotlight-on-our-artist-kevin-dutton
Here’s a show I’ll be doing soon on Sunday 1st December. There will be lots of new framed and unframed prints. More details at http://modernshows.com/
There are so many autumn leaves to shoot at the moment, but this striking Sweet Gum leaf (Liquidamber Styraciflua) is among the brightest, in contrast to Euphorbia foliage and a Silver Birch leaf.
Photo Democracy, who sell my work in London, W1, have a stand at The Affordable Art Fair this week, 24-27th October in London’s Battersea Park. They’re offering free tickets to registered Photo Democracy members. Click here for details.
Here’s one of my framed images – Aster 1, size 30″ x 30″ – which was shown on last night’s broadcast of Grand Designs on Channel 4. The images on the program itself show an incredible transformation from the site which I saw when I went to deliver the work. It looked like a V2 rocket had hit it! I think the owners, despite the excitement of the project, are now mightily relieved that all the work is complete and that they can finally get a decent night’s sleep. I much enjoyed the hilarious footage of them planted the sedum/succulents/wild flowers on the roof.
Walking along Cornish sections of the South West Coast Path in late summer, the deep rusty colours of Dock seed heads were a constant source of temptation for blog photography (see previous entry). Funnily enough though, here in London, riding along a green path which takes the route of the old Peckham branch of the Grand Surrey Canal, these large specimens of Rumex crispus (Curled Dock, Curly Dock, Yellow Dock, Sour Dock, Narrow Dock, Garden Patience Narrow-leaved Dock) have looked stunning these last few weeks, standing out from a meadow of handsome weeds as I turn right off the path on to Glengall Road. I’ve just done a bit of research on the path ( Surrey Canal Path) and the stretch I ride along has been amusingly re-branded The Surrey Linear Canal Park. It’s a rather tidy walkway but my eye is always drawn by those unkempt, neglected areas where weeds can spread out and really show what they can do.
The striking colours here of Rumex Obtusifolius (Dock). This is one of a series of photographs taken on and around the Cornish Coastal Path in late summer. The full set of images is on my Facebook page facebook.com/kevinduttonphotography.
For anyone in the Versailles area, this exhibition of botanical art is worth a visit. The show includes watercolours on vellum, paintings and also features a newly replanted scented garden. It’s on until the end of September and is in the Grand Trianon, right next to Marie Antoinette’s famous estate. http://en.chateauversailles.fr/news-/events/expositions/fleurs-du-roi-en
Here’s a photo from Monday’s opening at Chris Beetles Fine Photographs. The exhibition is on until 17th August and five of my plant portraits are on show. More pictures of the opening are on the Photo Democracy Facebook Page.
Here’s one of my new images which will be on show from Monday at the summer show at Chris Beetles Fine Photographs, London, W1 , 12-17 August, featuring the winners of the Photo Democracy Award for Fine Art Photography 2013. A selection of my work is also now on sale at the Photo Democracy online gallery.
I’ve just had some good news – I’m one of the winners of the Photo Democracy Award for Fine Art Photography 2013. My images will be on show at the summer show at Chris Beetles Fine Photographs, London, W1 , 12-17 August. A selection of my work will also be sold through Photo Democracy from the autumn. My study of Fritillaria Meleagris has been chosen for the poster and publicity.
I’ve just added 15 new images to the collection of prints for sale online at www.kevindutton.net . They include this springtime study of Covollaria (Lily of the Valley).
I’ve been harvesting Borage (Borago officinalis) today, otherwise known as starflower. I’ll be shooting them in the (dark!) studio but hopefully there will be some left over later to add to a glass of Pimms in the sunshine.
