I’m looking forward to Pullens Yards Open Studios on 1-3 December, Elephant & Castle, London. I’ll be there all weekend with lots of framed, unframed and mounted prints plus ten new card designs for sale. Hope to see you there.
My first show of the autumn will be in London on 28th and 29th September where, in a beautiful house in Dulwich Village, a number of my framed pictures will be on show as part of a group show. AB Design and Interiors will be hosting at 93 Woodwarde Road, SE22 8UL. Full details on their site by clicking the link. There will be more information on forthcoming winter shows soon.
I’ve spend a lot of time this year photographing another dozen varieties of tulips. Many of these are on show now for the first time at The Affordable Art Fair in Stockholm, Sweden, 12-15 October.
I’m looking forward to adding another new tulip study to the collection at two forthcoming shows this spring. The Affordable Art Fair is at Battersea, London (9-12 March) and Midcentury Modern will be in Dulwich, London (19 March). The composition here, Mixed Tulips 2, was photographed last spring, and the current batches of tulips and other bulbs are just beginning to show signs of life for this year’s work.
Out in the garden I’ve been braving some ghastly weather in order to plant 120 tulip bulbs to photograph next spring. The bulbs in the image below are Antraciet and El Nino, but others will include varieties such as Blumex, Rai, Flaming Spring Green and Orange Princess. Inspired by Hortus Botanicus in Amsterdam and the stunning specimens of the Dutch Tulip Mania in the 1600s described in paintings and illustrations of the time, I’ll be working on individual and group plant studies from early April.
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.
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.
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.
I’ll be showing my prints again at the excellent Midcentury Modern show on Sunday at Dulwich College, London SE21 7LD.
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/
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.
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 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).
Now that the Dulwich Artists’ Open House is over, the next place to see my photographs will be the Pullens Yard Open Studios where Gas Art will be showing my work, framed and unframed, prices £75-£575. The address is 20a Iliffe Yard, London, SE17 3QA.
We’ll be opening up again for the second weekend of the Artists’ Open House on Saturday and Sunday 18th & 19th May, 11-6. As well as my photographs there will also be stunning lampshades from Isabel Stanley and beautiful knitted cushion & toys from Sally Nencini. My work will also be showing at the Gas Gallery show (same dates and times) at 41 College Road, London, SE21 7BA.
Thanks to everyone who came to the first weekend of our show at the Artists’ Open House. It made for an extremely busy but enjoyable couple of days. We’ll be showing work again next weekend too, Saturday and Sunday 18th & 19th May, 11-6 for anyone who’d like to join us. As well as my photographs there will also be stunning lampshades from Isabel Stanley and beautiful knitted cushion & toys from Sally Nencini. Some of my work will also be showing at the Gas Gallery show (same dates and times) at 41 College Road, London, SE21 7BA.
Here’s the invitation for my forthcoming show as part of the Festival. All welcome.
There are new images on show at AAF this week. Look out for Gas Gallery, stand F2 where there will be work, framed and unframed in all sizes.
Twelve of my large size C-type prints are for sale at a special discount on the Achica online store from today. Offer ends on Wednesday.
http://www.achica.com/promotion/KevinDutton
A selection of my work will now be on sale through the online gallery artfinder.com
Here’s a snap of some of my larger work on sale at the Gas Gallery stand at the Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead.
Here’s a new 30″ x 30″ print, Aster 1, all ready to be framed. I’ll be one of my prints on show at Gas Art’s stand at The Affordable Art Fair, 1-4 Nov, Hampstead, London.
Gas Gallery will be showing my work again this coming weekend, this time at the Buy Art Fair in Manchester. There you’ll find framed and unframed prints for sale in sizes 10″ x 8″ up to 40″ x 30″.
Short-lived but richly fragrant flowers on this Philadelphus. I’ve been trying to shoot these in the studio but with limited results; they begin to wilt so quickly.
Here’s a closer look at some of the prints displayed at the Bloomsbury Art Fair including ‘Narcissi 1’, size 30″ x 40″.
Taken last night: The Gas Art stand at the preview of the Bloomsbury Art Fair. The show is on from 6-8 July.
Some of my prints are on show as part of Gas Art’s “Pattern & Process” exhibition at the Frameless Gallery in London. The show is on until 16th June.
I’ve currently got some work on show at Gas Art’s Pop-Up Shop in London. From May 17th – June 1st. Le Garage, 115 Dulwich Road, London SE24 ONG. Opening hours 12 – 8pm. On sale: Screen prints, linocuts, giclée and digital prints plus lots of other artworks. click here for more details.
My work gets a mention in the Interiors section of The Sunday Times Style Magazine.
We’re open again this coming weekend (19th & 20th May) for the Dulwich Festival Artists’ Open House. Here are a couple of snaps showing the new frames for the large 20″ x 24″ prints and a display of 10″ x 8″ prints in 12″ x 12″ window mounts.
Here’s the invitation I’ll be sending out for the upcoming show in May. All welcome.
Wandering around the market in Swaffham, Norfolk, my eye was caught by this seriously colourful floral display.
