Events

An opportunity to view the full range of the popular Under the Influence prints, all in one venue. Local artist Michele Papageorghiou – also known as Mrs P – started work on her series of striking seascape acrylic paintings back in 2019, with Margate Under the Influence. The series has grown since then. It now features other iconic Margate scenes, and Thanet's other seaside towns. Reculver and Brighton are included too, with more planned. All of the paintings feature Mrs P's distinctive co...

Keeley McCalmont and Sarah Gibbon met as teenagers, when working as Saturday girls in a shoe shop on London’s Oxford Street in the 1980’s. They bonded over their shared love of soul music, shoes, and all things arty. Four decades later and still the best of friends, Keeley is Head of Art in a London school, Sarah co-runs two group-based independent art galleries in Thanet. Still both working full-time, they cherish their trips to see each other in London and in Margate. They have been learnin...