The Bridge Art School

It’s been the annual residency for the FAPD member artists this week. The is transformed into studio spaces and the groups are invited in to use it to develop their practice in a collegiate art school environment.
The highlight of the week is the ‘Skill Share” day, convened by . In the morning demonstrated the Egg Tempera technique and then in the afternoon we were privileged to have the great painter visit us to talk about his practice. Thanks to Joe for his generosity in sharing his painting process and methods with us, it was an absolutely compelling afternoon.

Good afternoon everyone.
We spend most of the year based at the salubrious surroundings of which is a great gallery with great shows, but once a year we are unleashed on the London art world for a marathon gallery tour. We were particularly lucky yesterday to receive a tremendously generous welcome from and an excellent impromptu artist’s talk from seen here in image 3 in front of his great painting. Thank you Robbie & Benito!

Last year, the trend in the galleries seemed to be a kind of dreamy surrealism, this year the dialogue was with abstraction. There’s lots of good stuff to see, for me the highlight was Joan Snyder (image 8-9) at Ropac. What do you think?

Final Day!!!
This year’s FAPD show‘Sometimes, Always, Never’ finishes today at 4pm.
It’s your last chance to see work by over 40 of our member artists, all of it great!
Head down to today!!!

We’re into the final 3 days of ‘Sometimes, Always, Never’, this year’s FAPD show
The gallery is open until 5pm today and tomorrow and then concludes at 4pm on Saturday.
There’s so much to see and it’s all great! Don’t miss it!

Here’s some more of the excellent art made by FAPD member artists in ‘Sometimes, Always, Never’.
The show is open today 10-5 and ends at 4pm this Saturday.

‘Sometimes, Always, Never’, the 2025 FAPD exhibition is open to the public again today from 10am-5pm. The show ends this Saturday, so make sure you don’t miss it!

The 2025 FAPD show, ‘Sometimes, Always, Never’ is open again everyday this week from 10am. Don’t delay as Saturday is the final day of the show.
Two of this year’s member artists & have a concurrent two person show at the Spa Gallery, on the Pantiles in Tunbridge Wells. So you can get a double dose of what our member artists are doing all within a few miles of each other!

Sorry, is closed today. ‘Sometimes, Always, Never’ will reopen on Monday morning at 10am.
It’ll be the final week of this huge show, so make sure you don’t miss it!
(Art work by Stuart Clark

This year’s FAPD final show, ‘Sometimes, Always, Never’ is open today from 10am
The show is open everyday (except Sunday) until Saturday 21st June. Don’t miss it!

Time flies! Sometimes, Always, Never has been open to the public for over a week, if you not seen it yet (or fancy visiting again) it’s open until Saturday 21st June 4pm. Don’t wait till then: You’ll kick yourself if you miss it!

‘Sometimes, Always, Never’ is open again today 10-5 .
You may be wondering what the title actually means… I first encountered the phrase ‘sometimes, always, never’ as a mnemonic for the correct way to button a jacket (Sometimes=top button,
Always=middle button, Never=bottom button). I like how this sequence of words is poised between several possible interpretations: On the
one hand it functions as a banal piece of fashion advice, yet on the other, when taken out of context, it reads like an existential statement. I thought this jarring contrast between shallow and deep would offer the member artists a variety of ways to interpret the ‘meaning’ of the title.