Welcome to Finding Place - we are situated on the ground floor Gallery in Lauderdale House, Highgate until 9th September

in order of appearance  

Tanya Goodman Bailey (TGB)        Gwen Ovshinsky (GO)     Fatemeh Bagherian (FB)        Gillian Harding (GH)    Deborah Burnstone (DB)

Find the number of on the lower left side of each painting! 

As you enter the gallery there is a piano with 6 paintings:

1. Hirsch Herd   Finding place for discovery   A family of deer stopped me in my tracks on a morning walk before a major surgery planned later that day. Each time I stumble upon a deer, they bring me to a specific sense of wonder and instantly connect me back to part of myself I can disconnect from, a trust in nature perhaps.              oil on canvas, framed    w. 82.5cm    h. 67cm    d.2.5cm   £550  TGB

2. Deer keeper  Finding place for ancestral stories  Hirsch, my mother’s maiden name, is given to people who looked after deer or lived near a field of deer.   An accidental paint splash on my freshly laid out palette when setting out to begin the painting was the fortuitous representational shape that would become the deer keeper. oil on canvas w.61cm  h.46cm  d.3cm   £330  TGB

3. Golden era  Finding place to settle This fox-like creature might be keeping his ears up for predators, but he has found a good spot, and I reckon life is Ok. That shape on the left, originated as an abstraction of a deer or a sign of early human folly. Industry and folly will come, but for now the fox can settle. oil on canva w.61cm   h.46cm d.3cm £330 TGB

4. Mind The Gap  Finding place to breakthrough This has an underpainting of two women sitting by water in deep conversation about identity (and hiding roots) after a trip to Hastings to see Chaim Soutine and Leon Kossoff. An ‘automatic’ painting, leaving space to reveal an opening. I was trying to reconcile the initiating conversation about concealing and revealing identity.     oil on canvas, framed   w.84cm   h.46cm   d.3cm  £550 TGB

5. Hampstead window   Finding place in Rosslyn Hill   This is one from my friend Corrie’s studio, in the soon to be converted police station in Hampstead. The sign on the studio door read ‘Processing and Legal Aid’ but the room had now been transformed into the ideal painter’s studio.    oil on linen    w:61cm   h.51cm   d:2cm    £330 TGB

6. Come here, pup   Finding place for showing love Hattie was like an auntie to Mishkin, a white lurcher. If you look hard enough, you might just find her in the coat as a black celestial saluki hound.                   oil on linen    w.40.5 cm   h. 51 cm   d 2cm  £330 TGB

French door wall

7. Tropical Gardens I   Finding place to celebrate colour       I painted this after a holiday in India, intoxicated by the wonderful colours and exuberant vegetation there. It isn’t an image of one particular garden, more an image that tries to recreate the feeling of being surrounded by luxuriant tropical vegetation and vibrant colour.  oil on canvas    w.66cm   h. 66cm   d. 2cm  £450 GO

8. 2000 years of mind   Finding place in collective memory    oil on canvas     w.240cm    h.135cm   d.2.5cm      price on application FB

9. Hampstead Heath   Finding place to transform the familiar  I walk near this part of Hampstead Heath and wanted to transform a familiar green landscape into a mosaic of vibrant colours and patterns in this painting yet still show it as a recognisable landscape.         oil on canvas    w.100cm   h:100cm   d.2cm  £550  GO

Drawings   Finding place to connect with my higher self by connecting to nature          

10. Chiswick House Garden, August 23     11. Barnes common, September 23       12. Kensington Garden, September 23   13. Gordon Garden, September 23   pen on paper, framed £265 each  FB

Café wall

14. Wonderful World      Finding place for appreciation     Nothing is more wondrous than nature.              oil on canvas    w.40cm   h.40cm   d.3.5cm     £330.00 GH

15. Nature Lovers            Finding place to share   It’s lovely to be immersed in nature.                                        oil on canvas   w.40cm   h.40cm   d.3.5cm     £330.00 GH

16. Nurture Nature          Finding place to grow     If we care for nature, it will take care of us.                    oil on canvas   w.40cm   h.40cm   d.3.5cm     £330.00 GH

17. Flight of the forest   Finding place for folk tales and fairy stories   I enjoy folk tales and fairy stories which often involve animals with special powers, and where magical action takes place in forests. This painting is an imaginary scenario of trying to escape from wolves in a forest.   oil on canvas  w.61cm  h.76cm  d.2cm  £450 GO

18. Bright Shallows       Finding place to chill    The sound of water has a calming effect and induces deep relaxation.   oil on wood    w.40cm   h.40cm   d.3cm          £290.00 GH

Tudor wood wall

19. Nature Cry           Finding place to grieve     This painting was created after reading about endangered animals and global warming.           oil on canvas   w.60 cm   h.65cm   d.3cm   £590.00 GH

20. Les Fleurs en Danger   Finding place for concern   A record of the many beautiful flowers that are endangered worldwide.                  oil on canvas    w.60cm   h.65cm    d.3cm   £590.00 GH

21. Last day of summer, letting go of purple    Finding place in finding human spirit  This charming girl was going to have her purple and blue braids taken out later that day, signalling the end of summer.              oil on canvas     w. 45cm    h.55cm     d.2cm    £885 FB

22. Children of Sun and Sands   Finding place in simple play   A composition from a group of children playing with their mother I saw on a trip to Eastboune.    oil on canvas  w.45cm  h.55cm  d.2cm   £765 FB

23. City Road Lock, Islington Canal   Finding place for companionship  I often walk along this canal and like the mixture of contemporary and older industrial buildings and beautiful willow trees near City Road Lock. It was a spring day and the leaves on the trees were very bright. I wanted to capture these colours and those of the industrial bricks and used the companionship of two women sitting on the raised lock talking together as the focal point of the painting.        oil on canvas    w.101cm   h.76cm   d.2cm   £550 GO

24. Summer walk, Hampstead Heath    Finding place for summer’s contrasting details.   On a very bright summer day the light can be so dazzling that contrasts are exaggerated and it’s hard to see detail clearly - I wanted to try and convey that feeling after a walk on a hot summer afternoon on Hampstead Heath.                     oil on canvas    w.45.7cm   h.60.5cm   w.2cm   £300 GO

Opposite French doors

25. The Garden     Finding place to see what emerges. I used a blue ground as Matisse did in ‘The Conversation’ which lent the painting an otherworldly atmosphere. This was quite liberating as I realised, I didn’t have to paint everything literally.                         acrylic on stretched canvas  w.161.5cm  h.113cm  d.3.5cm           £2000 DB

 26. Twitter       Finding place to sing    Birds are the epitome of freedom and nature                      oil on canvas w.120cm h.80cm d. 3.5cm  £590 GH

27. Hattie and Fatemah drawing on the towpath  Finding place through friendship, water and wildflowers   Hattie and Fatemeh were drawing on the Regents Canal near the Angel, completely surrounded by wildflowers. I made a drawing of them, and then a young man with an old school film camera came along and took photos of me drawing them. I made a few paintings based on these sketches which became increasingly abstract with marks and streaks standing in for flowers and foliage.  oil on linen   w.30cm h.40cm d.2cm   £700 DB

 28. Plant woman and boy Finding place to recollect    This painting came out of a drawing and is based on me and my son. There was a mirror and a huge plant in front of me. The scene caught my eye because I happened to be wearing a top with a plant design on it which I found amusing. My son was reading in the foreground. Looking at the painting and earlier photos of it on my phone I realise I’d forgotten that it took its time and went through a lot of changes and tweaks. oil on stretched linen    w.45cm  h.60cm  d.2cm   £1000 DB

 29. Fatemeh Finding place in nature with a friend   A painting of my friend Fatemeh, made from a drawing of her I made in a park.  acrylic on panel (framed)    w.40cm h.50cm d.3cm   £850 DB

 30. Since Time Immemorial Finding place to frolic Humans have always enjoyed themselves in the natural world.          oil on canvas    w.160cm   h.135cm   d.3cm   £1200.00   GH

 31. Tropical Gardens II   Finding place to celebrate colour        I painted this after a holiday in India, intoxicated by the wonderful colours and exuberant vegetation there. It isn’t an image of one particular garden, more an image that tries to recreate the feeling of being surrounded by luxuriant tropical vegetation and vibrant colour. oil on canvas    w.66cm   h. 66cm   d. 2cm   £450 GO