Nature & Art in the Neighbourhood

Event Information

Join us on this exciting and varied route, an urban wildlife-supporting theme with significant trees highlighted along the way. Visiting churchyards, residential and community-led street gardens, plus an artist’s studio visit and an Epping Forest walk.

Discover how re-naturing is gaining momentum in Walthamstow. Meet artist Sharon Drew, inspired by this ethos and showing paintings and landscape/forest studies in sketchbooks. Explore the secluded grasslands of Epping Forest, bordered by veteran Oaks and Hornbeam pollards.

Contributors

Epping Forest Heritage Trust

A charity and membership organisation with a mission to inspire people about Epping Forest and to conserve and protect its biodiversity, culture, and heritage from East London to Epping in Essex.

Sharon Drew

Sharon Drew is a London-based artist whose process-based abstract paintings respond to her experience of the natural world. The works show a confident use of colour, are often large-scale and employ a range of approaches. From diluted sweeping gestural brush strokes to smooth rubbed back surfaces revealing older, detailed layers, she seeks visual metaphors for the sensation of immersion in an environment rather than depicting a particular place. Drew aims to work in the moment, treading the fine line between risk and control.

Drew’s paintings have been embraced by the world of fashion and interiors, used in shoots for Vogue, Stella McCartney, Gucci Flora, Soho Home, and purchases include Locke am Platz Hotel, Zurich and Jigsaw St Pancras International and published in Wallpaper, The World of Interiors and Elle Decoration magazines. Drew completed her Fine Art MA at UAL Central Saint Martins in 2003, where she is now a mentor to Fine Art MA and BA students.

Social media

@EppingForestHT

Location

Location: Walthamstow Central Station E17 7LP

What3words: cool.ports.gasp