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Leyton High Road Open Studios 2025
Sunday 6th July 2025 , 12:00pm to 5:00pm
Join the artists working every day at Leyton High Road for an amazing artist-led Open Studios! Meet the creatives inside the studios, explore the work on display, and see what’s in store as part of the Leytonstone Arts Trail.
Across two days, 18 artist studios inside Leyton High Road will be open to the public for Bow Arts’ upcoming open studios. Featuring the work of the painters, framers, photographers and sculptors, working in Leytonstone, the occasion offers a unique opportunity to connect with talented artists and experience their work up close.
The studios will be open to the public on Saturday 5th July & Sunday 6th July.
Beyond the open studios, the event coincides with the Leytonstone Arts Trail. From 5th July to 6th July 2025, artists at Leyton Studios will be showcasing their works as part of this celebrated community-led festival that transforms Leyton and the surrounding areas into a vibrant art festival.
Featured Artists:
Melina Merlin, Flora Bradwell, Haydn Albrow, Fearon Gold, Elicia McKenzie, Natasha Awuku, Ruth Solomons, Isobel Atacus, Ellen Sampson, Eiros, Iella, Lee Milne, Andrew Olley, Dominika Prinz, and Aylafaye Studios and Alice Sherlock.
Meet The Artists
iella
Maltese visual artist and designer based in London, UK. Iella started drawing as a teenager, switching from Biomedical science to Art History at University of Malta, followed by an MA in Communication Design at Kingston. She started her professional career as a designer for Cartoon Network and Warner Brothers Theatrical before leaving to pursue a freelance career in 2023, focusing on drawing-based fine art practice, graffiti and traditional etching. Iella‘s work is influenced by 90s animation, video games, bird and nature. Most of her work is figurative and illustrative, often exploring themes of fantasy, climate change, existentialism and personal experiences.
Melina Merlin
My artistic practice is an evolving constellation of drawing, painting, film, soundscapes, sculpture, and photography. Rooted in an impulse to reimagine, I use these mediums to explore how myths – both ancient and contemporary – can be rewritten to empower rather than erase. My work draws heavily from ongoing research into cultural memory, feminist theory, and decolonial methodologies. I am particularly interested in how stories, symbols, and rituals can be reactivated to question dominant narratives and offer new possibilities for understanding identity, gender, and place.rnrnInstagram u003cspan data-olk-copy-source=u0022MessageBodyu0022u003e@moxieravenstudiou003c/spanu003e
Fearon Gold
Fearon Gold in an artist working in oil paint. exploring the changes in time in nature, cities and within.
Lee Milne
Lee’s practice addresses some of the everyday interactions to be found in lived space and landscapes. Constructed imagery, wonky documentation and phoney contraptions seek to communicate absent and forgotten narratives and test unmethodical approaches to record keeping.
Dominika Prinz
Dominika is an artist from the Czech Republic, using painting, drawing and clay to create semi-autobiographical works with a magical reference.
Andrew Olley
Andrew Olley is a visual artist and experimental musician/sound artist. His work is particularly focussed on seeing or hearing the unseen within landscape, and the coincidences, affects and collisions between human and environment. He works across media, but is drawn to the process and specific qualities afforded by photo/mechanical/chemical image making and analog sound generation, and how these technologies can be combined with digital processes and dissemination.
Isobel Atacus
Isobel Atacus works across sculpture, installation and writing. Her practice is highly physical, crossing between a very abstract grappling with matter and a more poetic and playful engagement with language, yet always drawing on place as a source of meaning. Through an interest in the materiality of landscape, Atacus questions our interactions with the natural world; in particular, to explore the various streams of information available to us, and how they might be mediated, interrupted or re- directed in some way. Through this she produces talismanic like objects that look towards new future possibilities.
Aylafaye Studios
u003cdiv data-olk-copy-source=u0022MessageBodyu0022u003eI am a womenswear fashion designer and a graduate of the Fashion Textiles program at University for the Creative Arts (UCA). Since graduating, I have worked with several designers and completed a number of internships, focusing primarily on fashion textiles, pattern cutting, and garment construction.u003c/divu003ernu003cdivu003eu003c/divu003ernu003cdivu003eIn addition to design work, I have contributed to visual merchandising as a freelance designer for window displays at leading department stores including Selfridges and Harrods. I’ve also supported multiple London Fashion Week seasons in both assistant and showroom runner roles.u003c/divu003ernu003cdivu003eu003c/divu003ernu003cdivu003eMy current practice explores the relationship between textile, structure, and sustainability. I work predominantly with recycled deadstock denim, which I manipulate into sculptural, braid-like forms through detailed embroidery techniques. This process results in highly tactile, three-dimensional garments that blur the line between fashion and object.u003c/divu003ernu003cdivu003eu003c/divu003ernu003cdivu003eInstagram: @aylafayestudiosu003c/divu003e
Alice Sherlock
Alice Sherlock is an artist based between London and Glasgow. She graduated from her masters in Fine Art practice at the Glasgow School of Art in 2022 and BA Fine art and Theatre from Lancaster University in 2019. She has recently moved to London as she explores themes of reflective nostalgia, locality and aural verbatim storytelling.
Ellen Sampson
Ellen Sampson is an artist and material culture researcher whose work draws upon phenomenology and psychoanalytic theory to explore the relationships between bodies, and garments, both in museums and archives, and in everyday life. Her work uses film, photography, and writing to explore agency of objects, our entanglements with them and the power of bodily trace. Ellen is a Research Fellow at Northumbria School of Design. She was previously Curatorial Fellow at Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Professorial Fellow at UCA. Her book Worn: Footwear Attachment and the Affects of Wear was published by Bloomsbury in 2020.
Flora Bradwell
Flora Bradwell’s generously grotesque practice encompasses painting, sculpture, performance and installation. Flora completed her MFA in Painting at The Slade School of Fine Art in 2021, receiving the Felix Slade Award, The Jeanne Szego Prize and Sarabande Emerging Artist Bursary while there. In 2023 Flora received the Gilbert Bayes Award and a-n Artist Bursary. Flora’s work has recently been exhibited at The Royal Society of Sculptors, Matt’s Gallery, Saatchi Gallery, Wakefield Art House, Liminal Gallery and Future DMND in LA. Selected residencies include Vincent VanGogh Huis, Zundert Elephant Lab, London, Cyprus College of Art, Paphos, and SIM, Reykjavik.
Ruth Solomons
Ruth Schryber is an artist specialising in painting and drawing. She is also a PhD student at Birkbeck College, University of London, and has been working on her practice-based study How Artists Work.
Orlando Frames
u003cdiv dir=u0022autou0022u003ernu003cdivu003ernu003cdivu003ernu003cdivu003ernrnu003cstrongu003eYour local framer in the heart of Bow Arts Studios, Leytonu003c/strongu003ernrnu003c/divu003ernu003c/divu003ernu003c/divu003ernu003c/divu003ernu003cdiv dir=u0022autou0022u003ernu003cdivu003ernu003cdiv dir=u0022autou0022u003ernu003cdiv dir=u0022autou0022u003ernu003cdivu003ernu003cdivu003ernu003cdivu003ernrnOrlando Frames is your friendly and trusted destination for picture framing. Harriet, the founder, has a simple goal, to make custom framing both personal and affordable, while building a local picture framing business that proudly serves Leyton and surrounding areas. She loves collaborating with local artists, forming community partnerships, and hosting picture framing workshops that foster creativity and connection in the neighbourhood. Come say hello!rnrnu003c/divu003ernu003c/divu003ernu003c/divu003ernu003c/divu003ernu003c/divu003ernu003c/divu003ernu003c/divu003e
Eiros
Eiros is a contemporary artist known for his ability to blend natural and technological elements in his abstract works. He uses recycled materials and a vibrant palette of colors to create pieces that invite reflection on the relationship between nature and modernity.
Natasha Awuku
Natasha Awuku is a multi-disciplinary artist using the mediums of art and music. Her paintings express a reverence for nature and the surreal. Using a combination of acrylic and spray paint, Natasha’s artworks are created on both canvas and street walls.
Elicia McKenzie
Elicia is a visual artist from East London who specialises in mixed media, oil paint, Indian ink, and charcoal. She creates original and commissioned artwork that can be either representational or abstract, focusing on capturing beauty, honouring icons, and highlighting the underrepresented in elite industries. Her inspiration in style comes from Pop Artist Roy Lichtenstein and portraiture artist Jonathan Yeo. Elicia’s practise has included commissioned art for private and public sectors, BAFTA events and film. Elicia has managed art projects for clients such as the London City Hall and Arts agency Disrupts Space.
Haydn Albrow
u003cspan data-olk-copy-source=u0022MessageBodyu0022u003eHaydn Albrow is a London based artist whose practice explores tangible and textural works spanning across multiple platforms including sculpture, installations, poetry and sound. Her work is inspired by dreams, language and the ways in which we interpret the two. Using reoccurring motifs throughout her work including teeth and body parts, Albrow’s practice straddles the grotesque and humorous.u003c/spanu003e
Access information
Leyton High Road has step-free access throughout from street level, including to the accessible toilet, and is service animal friendly. This venue does not have a hearing loop system.
Accessible parking is currently available, and if required please contact our studios team for more information via property@bowarts.com
If you have any questions regarding accessibility at this venue or event, would like to make us aware of any access requirements that you have in advance of visiting, or would like this information in an alternate format including Easy Read, please call 020 8980 7774 (Ext. 3).
Transport Information
452 High Road, Leyton, E10 6QE
Nearest station(s): Leyton (Central Line), Leyton Midland Road (Overground)
Bus: 69, 97
Parking: No Parking
Bike: No Bike storage. Ground floor access will allow you to take your bike indoors.
