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My exhibition in South West Poland will open soon and you are very welcome to visit it: Butterlies Moths Bees and UsThe Nature Museum in Jelenia Gora, Poland2 - 30 September 2016Private View: 2 September, 5pmAfter the opening of the exhibition there will be a lecture from the founder of The Nature and Human Society about the protection of Honey Bees.  

You are very welcome to visit my art studio during the Penge Art Trail, which takes place over the last two weekends in June in Penge, London SE20. In the Hatome Studio there will be an exhibition of 3 local artists:Yolanta Gawlik - painting and printsMary Gordon-Smith - ceramic sculpture and printsLottie Day - painting and prints Penge Art TrailHatome Studio60 Maple Road, Penge, SE20 8HE18-19 and 25-26 June, 11am - 5pm

My husband gave me a Cornish Landscape painting course as a special gift for my birthday. My dream has come true.  I really love Cornwall. I have been there twice before, but this time it was different. I worked for 4 days, 6 hours a day, painting and drawing, mostly in extreme conditions, in the wind. It was brilliant!  Our tutor was Maggie O'Brien, a teacher at the Newlyn School of Art and a great painter of wild landscapes. There were 9 of us on the course and the atmosphere was very supportive, with much freedom left to us. Maggie...

Today I finished designing the new map and flyer for Penge Art Trail, which will take place over two last weekends of June 2016, during Penge Festival. The art trail is being organized by SE20 Art Group of which I am a member. Here is the map, showing 27 venues: Hatome Studio will feature 3 local artists, Mary Gordon Smith, Lottie Day and myself, Yolanta Gawlik. There will be a variety of work on show. I will be writing more about it over the coming weeks.  

In April 2016 Hatome Studio will take part in the following local Markets:  SE20 Craft FairSaturday 2 April 2016, 11am - 4pmKenilworth HallKenilworth Street, Penge, London SE20 Handmade Palace Monthly MarketSunday 3 April 2016, 12 - 6pmSparrowhawk Pub (upstairs)2 Westow Street, London SE19 2RX