Second Floor Studios & Arts Open Studio

The biannual Open Studio at Second Floor Studios & Arts (SFSA), is a must for art lovers in and around London. This November the community of more than 160 professional arts practitioners will open their studios to the public; inviting art lovers and visitors into their creative spaces to discuss, view and even buy, their work. The Open Studio will be open to the public on Thursday 17th (5pm - 9pm), Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th (11am - 6pm) November.

SFSA is leading South London’s burgeoning art scene. Located on the banks of the Thames, a stone’s throw from the Thames barrier, SFSA is an affordable studio provision and creative space championing the practice of art in London. It is an arts community in the truest sense.

A multi-million pound development, once complete SFSA will provide 160,000sqft of affordable arts space, studios and facilities for more than 300 artists. The development currently houses more than 160 artists from the fields of painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, graphic and digital design, animation, illustration, fashion and jewellery design, mosaic, glass-making, cabinet-making and interactive sound installation.

Artists such as Gary Drostle, president of the British Association of Modern Mosaic; Ray Richardson, once described by GQ magazine as the ‘Martin Scorsese of figurative painting’; Miles Campbell, maker of spring- and weight-driven clocks; traditional canoe-maker Will Holmes; life-long printmaker David Bowyer; landscape painters Sarah Priddis and Rich Reid; and illustrator Rod Hunt, Chairman of the Association of Illustrators, will open their studios to visitors this November.