Day One of the Art Trail 2015- a guest blog post by Jennie Caminada
On the first day of the 2015 I was so excited that I left the house at ten to get in as much art trailing before we ourselves opened our doors at 3pm.
I took my middle son Dylan, 15, a copy of the guide and some delicious food from the ever fabulous Yilderim Bakery and off we trotted.
First stop was The Mill on Coppermill Lane, long a favourite place of mine for playing, learning, teaching, knitting and just hanging out. The art at The Mill is consistently good and this year was no different.
The first thing I saw was this amazing installation by Face Invader, a local maker of masks and headdresses. It looked very William Morris inspired to me, whether that was intentional or not I don't know.
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| The Mill |
There was art on all the walls in the living room, from etchings to photographs, prints to collages. It was all very inspiring!
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| The Mill |
Next we walked over to visit a friend who told me about this lovely guy Spike who has an allotment on the same site as him and his partner, and they swap apples for cider (sounds like a fantastic swap to me!). He was wondering if the next exhibit I was planning to visit (called Stowhemia) was Spike's and indeed it was. And he truly is a lovely friendly chap, we chatted about sewing machines and letterpress and studios and Walthamstow before I went into the amazing studio at the bottom of his garden to see work by various artists. Chatting to the people that make the art is exactly what makes the Art Trail such an amazing event, it's so personal and immediate, and warming.
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| Stowhemia |
With time running out Dylan and I decided to visit just one more venue and we chose (wisely it turned out!) to go and see Rolando Gomez Aguilar's Culture, rebellion and graffiti, a photographic exhibition about graffiti in his hometown of San Christobal de las Casas in Mexico. Another friendly artist, exhibiting in his front room, with amazing photos and a personal explanation of the background of the highly political and also beautiful street art left us sated and uplifted and ready for a quick bit or art trailing on the block and then some lunch and our own opening.
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| Culture, rebellion and graffiti - Rolando Gomez Aguilar |
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| Culture, rebellion and graffiti - Rolando Gomez Aguilar | | | |
We have always had a rather artistic little block here on Thorpe Crescent and even though we lost the amazing Sarah Hardy to Essex last year we still managed a respectable three venues next to each other with a total of 6 people exhibiting as well as some astonishing food being created at no 17 by Brian. Below are photos of Ellie Noble's work, always inspirational and beautiful, and John's wood work, again stunning stuff, helped along by the Thai yellow fish curry made by Brian.
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| Paper, wood and food |
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| Paper, wood and food |
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| Paper, wood and food |
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| Paper, wood and food |
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| Brian cooking up a storm - Paper, wood and food |
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| Crazy pirate children |
Last but not least was Andrew's lovely vintage circus inspired signs at 21 Thorpe Crescent under the name Crazy Pirate Children. Andrew also has some gorgeous vintage style pin up paintings left from last year and is open to commissions for signs - I've asked him to make me a Cheekyhandmades sign for my studio - can't wait!
All three of us are open for the next two Saturdays too, Ellie opens at 12, Andrew at 1 and we open at 3.
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