Marie Lenclos - Brixton Paintings

On Thursday 12th June we will be opening the doors to a brand new exhibition featuring Marie Lenclos.

A real celebration as this will be Marie’s third show with Studio 73, and this time; at our new home here on Valentia Place.

The new body of work, entitled ‘Brixton Paintings’, will feature 12 new oil paintings from the Artist. Paintings depicting the area in and around where Marie has lived for almost exactly 30 years.

Marie is drawn to the architecture of London, the quirks, the shadows, the colouration, the line and the form. The Serenity. The structure around us quietly doing it’s job. The play with colour that relishes it surrounds.

‘As a documentary filmmaker, I got used to ‘framing’ things, even without a camera. I’d be walking around and suddenly see something and think: ‘this would make a good shot’. Now I see something and think: ‘there is a painting in this’.

We are set to host an Artists Q&A on Saturday 21st June at 3pm, please keep your diaries clear, for it will be an uplifting event, very 73! Idle Bernard might also be at the show to throw us questions, keep in mind!

We will showcase Marie and her show on studio73art.com, to include photography, videography & audio files, capturing conversation and abstract sounds that permeate in and around us here in London.

Preview evening is, as above, from 18:00 until 21:00

Showtimes; Thursday to Sunday 14:00 until 18:00

Artist Q&A: Saturday 21st June

Marie’s show concludes on Sunday 29th June 2025.

John Workman

The Claude Lorrain Experience

‘I was born in the town, and the first landscapes I noticed were ones printed in books, old paintings reproduced in black-and-white or in slighty weird colours. The world they showed, the castles and fields and distant hills, didn’t much correspond to the world I saw around me in Bedford, and it never occurred to me that they should. They were obviously pictures of vanished or imaginary worlds. Most of us now are born in the town, and to us a landscape is bound to be a kind of pastoral.

Perhaps the most idealised of arcadian images are Claude Lorrain’s Italian landscapes. Their calm perfection makes them so distant that it’s impossible for us now to see the world that way. In fact it’s unlikely that even at the time his paintings were seen as accurate depictions. They only make sense as dream versions of the world.

But the English landscape itself a kind of dream version of England. The old churches, the fields and hedgerows, all the picturesque trappings we see through the train window are a bit of a fiction, not the product of the society we live in, but the preserved relics of an agricultural society that has largely gone. That’s partly why I often find Claude’s landscapes a good starting point for my own work. The feeling they give me of being in a beautiful theatre set is the feeling I get in the English countryside.’

John Workman – May 2025

The Claude Lorrain Experience, an exhibition of mixed media paintings by John Workman, opened with us on Thursday 15th May 2025.

The exhibition ran until Sunday 1st June 2025.

‘I AM BECOME LIKE LIGHT: THE CHURCHES OF THE CITY OF LONDON’

– teddave

STUDIO73:2 ARCH 18, VALENTIA PLACE SW9 8PJ

24TH APRIL – 11TH MAY 2025

The focus of Teddave’s show is the City of London and the churches that once dominated the square mile. Man and machine and his deadline ways have visually silenced the cityscape of its churches, but they are still with us and still affect a disciplined quiet upon its visitors, this is reflected in teddave’s work which is available to view at Studio 73 until 11th May 2025.

‘Having lived in London for over thirty years I was beginning to feel disconnected from what had once been familiar neighbourhoods. This dislocation was most marked by the rapidly changing City of London, the financial heart of Britain’s economy. Hoping to reconnect, I took to wandering |The City with a copy of the Nairn’s London, his idiosyncratic text guiding me through the labyrinthine streets, eventually bringing me to a series of churches that I had completely discounted when I was young. From his recommendations I set about capturing all forty-six churches, plus the remnants and towers that dot the Square Mile.

My work offers a documentary of the everyday but contained within that I broach a critique of the politics of austerity, the gentrification of our cities the unreliable legacy of memory, the passing of all things and the presence ion all of the divine. I seek to record the eternal moment, using a rigorous compositional technique to align elements within the frame hoping to capture this passing beauty of any singular moment of eternity whilst also resolving my own sub-conscious need to assert order and control over that which is unbiddable.’

Studio 73 presented a brand new joint exhibition featuring Artists Jackie Clark and Priscilla Watkins.

Their show opened on Thursday 3rd April

The exhibition ran from Friday 4th April until Friday 19th April 2025.

Come and see the space, revitalised! At a unique venue, in a railway arch. In Brixton.

Come and see a fantastic exhibitions featuring the finest oil painters in town.

Exhibition Dates & Opening Hours:
4th April – 19th April
Thursday – Sunday, 14:00 – 18:00