Artists

Meet our artists

Nine artists make up the core of our gallery. Not only is their work on display in a rolling exhibition, but they hang the shows and operate the gallery on a day-to-day basis. If you stop by or spaces on Portobello Road or Camden Passage, you’ll find one of them manning the gallery.

Portobello Artists

  • Caroline worked as a writer and editor before painting started to take over about 15 years ago. Initially taught by the artist Tony Rothon (first at the Heatherley School of Fine Art and then independently for several years), she works mostly in oil, occasionally in watercolour. Her semi-abstract, figurative paintings focus mainly on still-life and interiors, with occasional figures and small landscapes. She often paints into previous images, so that she has something to ‘edit’ in the first place, and so that traces of the original work add their own ambiguities. In recent years she has exhibited at the Royal Academy (Summer Exhibition 2020 and 2015), at the Mall Galleries (NEAC 2018, 2019 and 2022, ROI 2021) and with various commercial galleries including Piers Feetham in Fulham and Gallery 286 in Earl’s Court. She has also shown annually with the Chelsea Art Society since 2014 and was elected a member in 2016. She makes her own frames and continues to write - in particular interviewing artists and makers for Country Living and Modern Rustic magazines.

    website: carolineatkins.com:

    instagram: @caro.atkins


  • In the 1980’s Lesley gained a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design.
    After taking a break from art to raise her family, Lesley returned to Fine Art in 2008.
    2012 Member of the Hesketh Hubbard Life Drawing Society.
    2014 Elected a member, Royal Birmingham Society of Artists & Chelsea Art Society.

    2016 Elected a council member of Chelsea Art Society.

    Lesley has exhibited with several major societies including:

    The Royal Society of Marine Artists 2009/10/12-17/19-21

    The Royal Institute of Oil Painters 2011/12/14

    Royal Society of British Artists 2013

    Society of Women Artists 2011/12

    Lesley is a house artist at The Mayne Gallery, Kingsbridge, Devon; The Waterside Gallery, St Mawes, Cornwall & Buckenham Galleries, Southwold, Suffolk, The Riverside Gallery, Barnes & has shown regularly with The Russell Gallery, Putney & Llewellyn Alexander Gallery, Waterloo. Lesley has work with the online Gallery British Contemporary Art.

    Lesley works predominantly in oil. She enjoys painting coastal marine scenes, & exploring the abstract quality of water juxtaposed with a sold object, often a boat, building or the coastline. She loves exploring light & movement on the surface of the water. Lesley works both en plein air & in her studio, and is a regular attendee at life drawing.


  • Kate Domash is an American painter who lives and works in London. She has been painting since her teenage years and studied Art History with a concentration in Visual Arts at Barnard College, Columbia University in New York in 2009. She began painting seriously again in 2020 after a long hiatus. She paints glimpses into the scenes of her daily life, attempting to capture atmosphere through painting, primarily focusing on cityscapes. She lets each painting evolve on its own – instead of beginning with an idea of what the finished painting will look like, she begins with either a reference photo or plain air viewpoint and builds the painting slowly over time in thin layers until she is satisfied with the final product. She also works in collage and etching.

    Her work has been included in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2020 as well as other local exhibitions, and her work is in private collections throughout the US, UK, and Middle East.

  • Emma Chambers studied Textile Design at Brighton before embarking on a career as a freelance designer. Elements of her training, such as pattern and layout still inform her work, along with influences form artists such as Elizabeth Blackadder.

    Emma is most attracted by plants that go unnoticed; small landscapes under foot. With intense observation she is able to untangle detail from the most complex of visual challenges. Painting from direct observation, sitting at ground level, Emma gains a unique perspective, almost an insect eye view of the world. She invites the viewer to sit where she sits and enjoy the quiet observation of nature. Notes are often added to paintings, giving her work a personal sketchbook quality, adding to the viewers sense of being present.

    Emma’s work can currently be seen at The Bakery, Portobello Road, where she is a member of the artist led gallery. She is also a member of Wimbledon Art Studios with whom she exhibits twice a year at Wimbledon Art Fair, and she recently exhibited at the Mall Galleries with the Royal Society for painters in Watercolour.

  • Lia Hattersley is a figurative landscape and still life painter who works mainly in oil and acrylic paints and enjoys exploring themes of domestic intimism and abstract beauty in the everyday. She investigates her themes through pencil sketches and sometimes she goes on to develop these as finished pieces. Lia’s lifelong interest in art and childhood skill at drawing led her to study Architecture at the University of Manchester where she gained a BA, B(Arch) and RIBA Part III and then went on to practice architecture professionally as well as design journalism. Having lived overseas for large parts of her adult life Lia had times between raising her family and work commitments to develop her painting and sell work in Spain and Singapore, notably through the retail arm of Singapore Art Musuem. Upon returning to UK Lia started working full time as an artist and attending Heatherleys School of Fine Art in Chelsea. Lia has developed a local following of collectors around Hertfordshire and London has recently been exhibited in several Hertfordshire and London galleries and was awarded the Hampstead Art Society Exhibition Michael Harding Oil Paints prize last summer.

  • Rion Jacobs studied at London College of Fashion and went on to enjoy a long and successful career in fashion and design. She has been creating silkscreen prints for over fifteen years now, returning to an earlier passion for painting and image making.

    Inspired by the crystalline light of South West France, where she spends much of her time, and applying a love of vibrant tones to her work, she produces joyful prints full of light and colour, with a great sense of balance and harmony.

    Rion particularly likes the medium of silkscreen printing because of the subtle quality achieved by building up translucent layers of colour. She adds graphic elements to her work, often through the application of paint directly on to the screen. The resulting work combines expressiveness with a clean and crisp aesthetic.

  • I am an Iranian born British artist/printmaker who specialises in creating paintings and original limited edition prints mainly from landscapes of Great Britain. My inspiration comes from the textural qualities of landscape. I enjoy using bright strong colours to capture the essence of the beauty that nature has to offer. My aim is to provoke a desire in you to be in places you have never been before or strike up recollections of places you have been or seen before. My work is designed to challenge your perceptions of the real world. I have exhibited in solo and group exhibitions including the Mall Gallery. My art is owned by many private individuals and a major global company.

  • Errika Pontevichi is an Italian artist based in London. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna Italy. As a child, Errika was inspired by the nature that surrounded her in the countryside where she lived. At the beginning of her artistic career, she approached this theme in quite a traditional manner. Renewed by working as an assistant in the studio of artist Giancarlo Bargoni for several years, she understood and learnt a different way to paint where the body was involved and emotions were expressed with loose brushstrokes. Her technique is the result of these experiences combined with her personal artistic research. Since moving to London, Errika Pontevichi has been increasingly noticed by the art world. She is showcased at Hollywood Road Gallery by Catharine Miller. Errika is shortlisted for the Jackson’s Painting Prize 2022.

  • E Sistan is a London-based artist whose abstract work tends toward minimalism. As the spontaneity of the gesture takes over, a meditative state emerges leaving emptiness dialoguing with plenitude. She employs small strokes to create large entanglements, all essentially in sync with each other, no matter how far apart they are. The blanks are not an inert presence, they are the breathing spaces.

    She mainly works with ink, reproducing the millennial gesture of dipping the nib in the inkwell. Physical proximity to the artwork is essential for grasping the properties of the densely positioned swishes and flicks, so that you too can get lost in the artwork.

Camden Passage Artists

  • Although born in Scotland, Audrey grew up in a village on the west coast of Cumbria. After a Foundation course at Carlisle, Audrey studied Fine art painting at the Central School of Art and Design in London

    (BA Hons, 1st class, 1979 – 81). After graduating she settled in North London. For many years she worked in the applied arts mainly as a scenic artist and later as a user experience designer for the BBC. She returned to painting full time in 2019. Audrey is motivated by her emotional response when viewing a potential subject. She works mainly in oils, but also loves the immediacy of pencil and watercolour sketches. She is inspired by line and form, working with shapes, colours and the effects of light.

    Audrey has exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Scottish Academy and the Society of Women Artists


  • Mixed media artist working from the human form. Mainly using painted collage to break away from traditional representations of the figure. Drawing in charcoal and ink is also integral to my work.

    First class degree in Illustration/3D work from Central Saint Martins Collage of Art & Design, 1993.

    Worked for 15 years in the theatre & film industry, specialising in effect make-up, this has heavily influenced my path as an artist working with the face and figure.

  • Felicity Royce graduated from the University of Ballarat, Australia with a Bachelor of Applied Art-Ceramics in 1992, winning the Walker Ceramic prize in her final year. She was awarded Artist in Residence with the Craft Council Victoria and completed a Diploma of Education in Art. Returning to the Victorian coast she started her first teaching job and set up a small studio.

    Felicity’s work is based on the beaches she grew up on focusing on the line created between the breaking waves and the sand. Moving to London in 1999 her work took a new direction looking at form and use of colour. Her most recent work, shown at the Royal Overseas League, London, has seen a return to ancient urn shapes, the reaction of where glaze and raw clay meet and the use of loose brush strokes. Felicity has exhibited in both Australia and the UK.

  • Since returning to fine art in 2018, Laura has been inspired by London landscapes with influences including Edward Hopper. She focuses on large acrylic landscapes using strong colours, she also enjoys intaglio etching, using black & white and colour etching. She has a strong community following in an area of North London where Heath lovers and open water swimmers are also passionate about their surroundings. She works from her studio in Dartmouth Park, East London Printmakers studio and from the Hampstead School of Art. She has had pieces shortlisted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, she exhibits at Affordable Art Fair Hampstead, and over the years has had several solo exhibitions. Her work featured in the Sunday Times Style magazine (2022) and in British Vogue Magazine (2023). Further local exhibitions include the Hampstead Summer Festival Art Fair where she has been selected to be the featured artist at the festival (2023).

  • Sophie Levi-Kallin is a textile artist who creates scenes using scrap fabrics and sewing machine embroidery. She is conscious of her environmental impact and all the scraps are old clothes or off-cuts. She developed the way of working herself in 2021, using the colours, layers, texture and history of the fabric as paint, and stitches to draw on top (never any glue or paint).

    Sophie is interested in the juxtaposition of different architecture, in contrast with natural trees/sky, and in sewing specific, recognisable places. Her artworks are mostly of London, rarely feature people, and never cars (inspired by her other work as a Transport Planner at TfL).

    As well as exhibiting in group shows (+markets/fairs) and participating in ArtCan Sophie has exhibited twice alongside her family members, who are also artists, and will continue this family collaboration in the future.

  • Vincent Spain, a painter based in London. BA (Hons) Ceramics at Camberwell College of Arts 1996-1999 was the culmination of various art-based studies to include, St Martins and The City Lit, Fleet Street. The work as the name suggests is just that, experiments, jousting with paint, stumbling on ideas, happy accidents, flow state mind, allowing himself to be guided by the marks, intuitively responding, sharp corners of low visibility until the task is scrutinized from a weary chair, with looking equally important as painting, and then it's over and he is already planning the next. Inspiration comes from everything and nothing, in the right light or moment anything can be a painting or at least the catalyst for one. Influenced by mid-20th century painting, his work harks back to that era but is firmly in today’s realm. His work has been shown at the following exhibitions: Columbia Threadneedle Painting Prize 2016, Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2017, ING Discerning Eye 2018, The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers 2020 and 2021, The Other Art Fair London 2023.

  • Sheaufei grew up in a village on the west coast of Johor, Malaysia. She came to London to study architecture at the Architectural Association in 2002. Following graduation, she worked in the field of architecture for renowned offices in London, such as Heatherwick Studio and Farshid Moussavi Architecture; in her spare time, she paints. In 2023, her transition to full-time painting occurred. As a self-taught painter and experienced Architect, Sheaufei is motivated by the inherent beauty of the natural world. She works mainly in watercolour, sketches plein air in pencil, and recently finds joy in the tactile qualities of semi-soft pastels. In her paintings, Sheaufei places the natural subject as the primary protagonist, with minimal hints of the built environment and human presence. Sheaufei’s Tree Portraits draw inspiration from London’s trees and blossoms – each assigned a postcode based on the nearest building’s address. Her fascination with painting small objects on a much larger scale without employing a magnifier led to the whimsical Large Onion series. The Sea Level Rise series is Sheaufei’s artistic response to climate change, raising awareness of rapidly rising global coastal lines. This initiative also inspired her to craft freehand abstract colour-line drawings called W(e)ave. Sheaufei has exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Watercolour Society and the Society of Artists in Architecture. Her works are in private collections worldwide.

  • Fascinated by light, reflection, translucency and shadow, Miranda uses these to enhance her photography, like crossfades in a film. In many images she uses old slide projectors to layer images into interiors, people and the urban landscape, she then photographes the scene before her with 35mm film or digital cameras. A new venture into handmade lightboxes recreate the glow of the slide projectors central to her work.

    Miranda has an MA in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins, and a BA hons in Theatre and Performance from the University of Warwick. Miranda has previously exhibited widely, including works displayed at the National Portrait Gallery, Tate Modern, Royal Academy of Arts, Kings Place and Pitshanger Manor. Miranda received first prize in the Arts Depot open. She has also recently exhibited at York Gallery, Willesden Gallery, Royal Cambrian Academy, Herspace festival, Hansard Studio Galleryand ING Discerning Eye.

    Miranda was a finalist in the Aesthetica Art Prize and was included in an anthology of 100 artists called Future Now put together by Aesthetica magazine.