Melissa Scott Miller paints from Tower Bridge Walkway

Melissa Scott Miller has been painting from the Walkway at the top of Tower Bridge. This summer she's been its official Artist in Residence

Melissa is a portrait and urban landscape artist who has been commissioned by the Trust which runs Tower Bridge (which is owned by the City of London) to create a panoramic painting of the views from the West Walkway at the top of Tower Bridge - from City Hall and the Shard on the South Bank, across the Thames, to the views of the various buildings old and new in the City of London on the North Bank of the Thames

You can find out more about #ABridgewithaView and Melissa on this page

To immortalise the very same views in 2022, we have commissioned English artist Melissa Scott-Miller to paint what she sees from the West Walkway. A Bridge with A View is a celebration of London and an ode to this vibrant city. The project takes place throughout the summer, and will include public workshops and family activities. Visitors to the attraction will be able to observe Melissa painting during their visit and see how the artwork progresses.

The intention is that the painting will be 150cm x 100cm - or maybe a triptych - and that the City of London will sell the painting at a charity auction later this year.

This is a video of Melissa painting her second painting in response to the views of Tower Bridge’s West Walkway - which covers the Upper Decks of HMS belfast to the Dome of St Paul's Cathedral.

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Peter Brown's Paintings of Glastonbury Festival

Peter Brown has a new Online Exhibition of his paintings of Glastonbury Festival between 2016 and 2022.

It was such a joy to be back painting at Glastonbury this year after two years of COVID cancellations. To celebrate, I’ve put together this online exhibition of my paintings of the festival that I’ve done over the years: 2016, 2017, 2019 and this year 2022.

Peter becomes the equivalent of an artist in residence for the duration of the Festival - as he has been in years past.

You can see the exhibition on his website at https://www.peterbrownneac.com/exhibition/glastonbury/

About Peter Brown

Oil Residency in London

How do you fancy being the artist in residence at Winsor & Newton? 

Last week I discovered an Oil Residency in London is being offered in London in 2020 by Winsor & Newton.

It was launched on Thursday at the Winsor & Newton "Discover Oil Colour" event at the annual exhibition of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters at the Mall Galleries.

The thing is I can't find any reference to this specific Residency Online online (although it does appear that W&N have previously offered a residency. It's not on

• EITHER the Winsor & Newton website for the UK
• OR the Royal Institute of Oil Painters website 

So I've decided to print off my rather crumpled, folded launch guide that I was given and give you the email address for further enquiries.

Key Features

Benefits

• Sole use of a 34 square metre studio "at Winsor & Newton". I assume this means their registered office and trading address at The Studio Building, 21 Evesham Street, London W11 4AJ although this is not clear.
• Art Materials will be provided for the period of the residency
• Professional mentoring by ROI members and W&N staff
• Open Studio event at the end of the residency
• Local accommodation provided if winner lives outside London +  weekly £100 living allowance

Timeline

• Residency: Start and Finish Dates - 1st June - 3rd July 2020
• DEADLINE for applications: 1st March 2000
• Judging: Mid March 2020
• Winner to be announced on 20th March 2020

How to enter

• ELIGIBLE ARTISTS: 
• Within 5 years of graduating. Unclear whether this needs to be in art. 
• Not stated whether eligibility is limited to UK citizens and/or current legitimate UK residents (they've forgotten to state the legal niceties re. legal right to be in and study/work in the UK that they need to comply with to avoid problems with UK Immigration)
• ELIGIBLE ARTWORK: Nothing mentioned re. actual artwork or digital images
• TERMS AND CONDITIONS:  No link for formal terms and conditions and very necessary legal niceties re personal data (eg GDPR)
• HOW TO ENTER: Send images and a brief synopsis (Of what? Do they mean a CV? Or why you want a residency - or both?) to ROIresdencyUK@colart.com

[Note: Winsor & Newton is one of the brands owned by Colart]

Eileen Hogan - an artist not in residence

Eileen Hogan has a simply marvellous exhibition at the Garden Museum. It's the outcome of inventing a new concept - "the artist not in residence"

She was appointed the artist in residence at the museum just before it closed for a major refurbishment funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

The museum reopened in May of this year and includes an exhibition by Eileen Hogan which comprises:

• some sublime paintings of gardens around and about London
• a large scale exhibit - on a wall - of her way of working as an artist not in residence.

I've loved Eileen Hogan's paintings for a very long time - ever since I first saw one in one of the first Lynn Painter Stainer's exhibitions at Painter-Stainers Hall in the City of London.

It was a real pleasure to see the exhibition of her paintings at the Garden Museum - see below for why!

The exhibition finishes on 17th September. See the end for why I'm posting this far too late!

There is a book about the exhibition for those who don't manage to see it - which I also recommend.

How she works - as "an artist not in residence"

Her idea for how to be an artist NOT in residence was that she would develop a project.

She would create a virtual garden museum through a year of excursions to gardens around London.

She wrote to lots of people she knew and some who were associated with the Museum to ask them to nominate a London Green Space that was important to them - giving reasons why it mattered. It could be a private garden or a public space - or even a remembered space glimpsed from the top of a bus.  It could also be related to any time of year.  She was surprised by some of the places people chose.

Her intention was then to choose a dozen sites - one for each month of the year - and turn these into large finished paintings.

The exhibition includes:

• her sketchbooks
• a number of oil sketches
• etchings drawing from material in her sketchbook
• photographs of her at work on her sketches

The exhibition of the process is as engaging as the paintings - and provides food for thought for any artist engaged in a similar project to record places.

Brompton Cemetery and Chiswick house - Photos of the way she works and sketchbooks

Chelsea Physic Garden - Photos of the way she works and sketchbooks

The paintings