This afternoon, I went to Cathie Pilkington’s Christmas salon in her studio which is in an old brush factory owned by the Crown Estate and leased to ACME as artists’ studios since the mid-1970s, one of the early agents of regeneration, alongside the squats in Bishop’s Way. I have seen much of her recent work in her exhibitions, but liked the friendly disorder of her studio:-
I’m afraid I find the blankness and passivity of her faces rather spooky.