Orchard Café Sunday and Red 50

Orchard Cafe is behind West Ealing BHS

Yesterday (Day 3 Beat w/e 1) went well for us at Orchard Café which is 23+ in the excellent BEAT brochure.

Early on in the day we had  a visit from Naomi Healy who is a guiding light of the project and has been busy visiting as many of the locations as he can.

Interest was high particularly for John Kaye's work and a few items were sold.

Tim Layden who exhibited a broad range of work from figurative to abstract and some colour field in there too) was able to explain to many interested visitors his knowledge of Synesthesia a condition many artists have sought to represent (Wikipedia describes it as "a neurological phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to automatic, involuntary experiences in a second")

Large and varied canvases from Tim Layden

Colour Fields -A Touch of the Rothko's perhaps?

As you can see as well as interest for Tim Layden's work John too was busy selling

Tim Layden (left) chats with  Naomi Healy from the  BEAT committee  in front of  some of his  work

'Red dot' John

One of the works sold by John Kaye

Sadly there was a bit of dismantling and clearing to do as the site will be used for other things in the week to come - but so I can re-assemble it next week (and you can pretend you were there) here's a Photosynth image of my corner.

Red 50

Caught in the breeze - I can almost feel it

Blowing in the Wind

 [see the latest rough cut of the ongoing project here] 

Ealing Cinema still looking a distant reality and Red 80

Still no cinema being built  on the old site in Ealing

Sad to see that the Ealing Cinema development is still looking some was off and it appears to be residential-y  heavy with the usual retail adornments.


The plan is now for St George PLC who have built the 'mega development' in Ealing where once stood council offices - the  dealings seem to be more about making the maximum profit from proximity to the new Crossrail service than improving the cultural life in the borough.

Pop Up Shop visitors

Plenty of people who have visited the Bond Street Pop Up while I have been there and wanted to talk about their own creative endeavours - it's fascinating to find out something about people  -the lady below was a pleasure to talk to and offered her own insights - happy to be part of the theme too.

The BEAT venues shown within

She spoke about Synesthesia (a surprising and long  list of  some famous people with the condition here).

 Synesthesia  is a description of a sort of interference between different senses - people see music for example  I had heard that the Russian abstract artist Kandinsky  had this - more interesting (and new to me) is the colour version Chromesthesia 

I hope that this lady and other interesting and interested individuals makes it to the BEAT w/e's  my venue is  at  (Orchard Cafe W13)..

Red 80

Another great visitor to the Pop Up shop and happily one wearing a red belt and engaging in the project

A nice visitor - Her favourite colour is red and she often  wears it too