Susie Horsford has been painting for some time and has posted several of her very distinctive pieces of work on the Create art gallery.  Susie, who lives in Hackney and receives a floating support service from St Martins, is keen to exhibit her paintings at St Martins’ AGM in September as a prelude to setting up her own exhibition.  Working in both oil and acrylic, Susie focuses on portraits of people she knows but also enjoys producing more more geometric work as well as interpretations of bonsai trees.  You can see some of Susie’s paintings in the Create art gallery now.

Mimi by Susie Horsford

The next meeting of the Forum will take place at 6pm on 24th March 2011.

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Angela Rickwood, who lives in supported accommodation in Islington, has been busy writing poetry for a number of years now. Having featured recently in Connect and having given a recital of her latest work at the recent St Martins AGM, Angela is keen for others to see her poems and perhaps be inspired to start writing their own. (more…)

In 2010 St Martins participated in a project to promote the creation and exhibition of art in unusual places across the London Borough of Islington. Our contribution involved commissioning the Brighton artist Dan Locke to work with our residents to produce a comic book-style newspaper which was distributed free to the general public.

Dan, who undertook an eight week residency at St Martins’ forensic mental health care home at Wilton Villas, helped several residents rediscover their interest in art. The completed piece of artwork, which can be seen on St Martins’ website, gave (more…)