Tuesday, 6 May 2025

 Hello everyone!






I'm very happy that my exhibition Fenestration has been included as part of the East Dulwich Open House festival. I'll be there in person to chat with you on Saturday May 17th and Sunday May 18th from 12 midday to 6pm. Please pop along and see my new work! I'll also have a table of small artworks and cards for sale on those days, including some very special brand new pieces inspired by my time in Ohio USA!

You can find out more about DOH by following this link:


I also have a small watercolour piece in the Happenstance Gallery's new exhibition Age of Flourishingmore details at the end of this post.

For those of you who attend my online Exploring Creativity classes on Zoom on Tuesdays 9.30am - 12.30pm, I hope you've all been enjoying the break! I've been having a lovely time in Ohio, and I found time while here to work on the new time table:

EXPLORING CREATIVITY TIMETABLE EARLY SUMMER 2025

10 weeks MAY 20th – JULY 22nd

Tuesdays 9.30am – 12.30pm online via zoom


Week 1

May 20th - Picasso. Misogeny and cubism


Week 2

May 27th - Hans Von Hayek. Sublime landscapes


Week 3

June 3rd - Eric Tucker. Northern social realist watercolours


Week 4

June 10th - Owen Jones. Colour theory & The Grammar of Ornament


Week 5

June 17th - Glenys Cour. Soft semi abstraction without a brush


Week 6

June 24th - Erwin Wurm. Contemporary Austrian sculpture


Week 7

July 1st - Bessie MacNicol & The Glasgow Girls


Week 8

July 8th - Anna Ray. Contemporary textile sculpture, abstract painting


Week 9

July 15th- Philip Reinagle & Robert Thornton’s Temple of Flora


Week 10

July 22nd - Henrik Aarrestad Uldalen. Contemporary portraiture


I hope there's something you'd like to learn about and I'm really looking forward to seeing you in class when I return! 

If you haven't been before I'd love to welcome you to join too. 


We spend the first hour exploring an artist and learning about their life and work. I deliver a presentation, followed by a discussion and a tea break, after which I present a live art demonstration for you to follow along to. 

All the information and ideas for the practical arrive via email the Sunday before class, and there's an optional email sharing thread where you can post your work to get feedback and chat with each other if you wish after class, by hitting "reply all" when you send the email.

Choose as many or as few classes as you like, it's up to you! Just let me know which ones you want to attend. It's fine even if you only want to come once. The cost is "pay what you can", minimum £5 and maximum £45 per class. Pay whatever you can afford. My payment details remain the same:

My pay pal link is:

And my bank details are as follows:

HSBC First Direct account,
Joanna Caroline McCormick
Sort code: 404777
Account number:41102877.


If you'd like to do the online only version, I'll send you the information on Sundays and the practical demo video after class on Tuesdays. The cost of that is £40 for all 10 classes. Please let me know.

Classes will resume at 9.30am on Tuesday 20th May with Picasso!

I'm also returning to Adult Learning Lewisham, to teach a limited number of in person classes on Saturdays at their Brockley Rise Centre. 

The next one is Super Art Saturday, Landscape, on May 24th. 

After that there are sessions for Life Drawing All Day on Saturdays June 7th and July 5th and Super Art Saturdays Cubism on June 21st and Monoprinting (Exploring Drawing and Surface Techniques) on July 12th . 

The classes run from 10am - 3.30pm. 

You can find out more and book by following the links below:

Landscape: 

Life Drawing All Day June:

Cubism:

Life Drawing All Day July:

Monoprinting (Exploring Drawing and Surface Techniques):

Here's information about The Age of Flourishing exhibition at Happenstance.



Age of Flourishing Exhibition at Happenstance Gallery

Age of Flourishing Exhibition at Happenstance Gallery

8 - 31 May 2025
Opening Reception: Thursday 8th and Saturday 10th
 

Group art show curated by Happenstance Gallery  
The Age of Flourishing exhibition presents artworks that explore the state and experience of flourishing and the spaces — physical, emotional, psychological, ecological — that enable growth and transformation to happen.

The exhibition is supported by: Flourishing Spaces
 
 

Exhibition dates: 8 – 31 May
Book a time slot to attend: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1338150838179

Participating Artists:
Amel Mahfouf
Andy Gashe
Barts and the London Arts Collective
Gunther Jancke
Hanna Sepúlveda
Hannah Battershell
Jo McCormick
Julia Engelhardt
Kateryna Gudzenko
Kateryna Horbatiuk
Lyubov Minenko
Margaret Ashman
Rocío Romero Expósito
Sarah Emily Porter
Stephanie Mills
Studio Marush

Opening Receptions:
Thursday 8th May 6-9pm
Saturday 10th May 2-5pm

RSVP is required. Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1336598866189

Header image © Detail of ‘Tranquil Reflections’ by OleKarako