Summer exhibitions

'Nice To See You' by Sergiy Shkanov

'Trinity' by Sergiy Shkanov

Reflect at St Andrew's Leytonstone is to host a Summer Arts Exhibition by Sergiy Shkanov between 17th - 24th July from 12 noon - 2.00pm (closed Sunday 18th and Monday 19th). Originally from the Ukraine but now a local artist, Sergiy works with stained glass, murals, mosaics and painting. His work carries a powerful message about love and peace, and art as a means of opposing violence and anger. Entry is free and creative activities will also be held in St Andrew's community cafe, Refresh.

Caroline Richardson and Michael Creasey are to exhibit in BASH (Big Arts Submission Havering) at the Visual Arts Centre in Frances Bardsley School, Romford. BASH features four artists over four weeks at the Visual Arts Centre. Caroline will exhibit from 2nd - 6th August and Michael from 23 - 27th August.

Caroline's exhibition features layers of glass and light interacting in a collection of work inspired by natural themes. The exhibition opens on Monday 2nd with a launch night from 7-9.00pm. Tuesday to Friday opening times are 9.30am - 3.00pm.

Sergiy Shkanov

'Nice to see you', stained glass

'Beginning', oil & acrylic on canvas, 2008

Sergiy Shkanov is a professional artist working in the fields of stained glass, murals, mosaics, painting, graphic arts, and book illustration. He is a tutor of Fine Arts.

Sergiy has participated in group shows across Europe since 1987 and holds numerous personal exhibitions in the United Kingdom. He undertakes art commissions for private and corporative clients.

Sergiy says: “My concept in art is as old as the world itself – to introduce to our world something that will not destroy, but construct. Artists are like the emptiness of a flute, through which a sound goes and results in the creation of music. In our contemporary world there is too much violence and too little love. There should be something to oppose this. I choose art as a means of resistance.”

Celia Ward

St John, tempera with gold on gesso panel

Crucifixion, tempera on gesso panel

Recycled Man, Tempera and gold on gesso panel
22 x 16 cm

Celia Ward was born into a painting family in Kent, England. She studied her craft in this milieu, and at the Royal Academy schools in London. She read History at University College, London.

In 1983 she won the Richard Ford Travel Award to draw at the Prado, Madrid and has exhibited at the Abbott and Holder, Brian Sinfield and Maas Galleries together with shows at the Romanian Cultural Institute in London and Konschthaus Beim Engel, Luxembourg.

Celia’s work is in the collections of The Ashmolean, The Faringdon Collection, Luxembourg State Collection, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge and Balliol College, Oxford. Her work has included a series of pictures of the Wardrobe Room at the Royal Opera House and she has been Artist in residence at both the Garsington Opera and the Homeless Centre in Oxford. She has exhibited pictures of the work of Tearfund in Bolivia and in a British Council exhibition documented a Romanian Village over a five year period. She is currently running an East London alphabet project based in Manor Park and working with international partners running and planning similar projects abroad.