Marty Thornton at Portsea Place

Following a fabulous launch for his exhibition at Portsea Place last week, Marty Thornton, hugely prolific and vibrant artist, has agreed to give one of his works for permanent exhibition at Portsea Place..

Born in London’s East End, Marty proudly boasts of his Romany background that brings to his work a unique fire and light which is his distinctive hallmark. His works are owned by Madonna, Ivana Trump, the legendary Barbara Hulanicki of Biba fame, Kate Moss, Joanna Lumley, Molly Parkin and Debbie Moore of Pineapple Studios to mention a few.

For visiting information please call us at 0207 262 4169 or go to our website: www.22portseaplace.com


For visiting information please call us at 0207 262 4169 or go to our website: www.22portseaplace.com

If you want to know more about Mr Thronton please visit his website www.martythorntonart.com

The Portsea Team

Taking Shape

Portsea Place’s fabulous home away from home is now taking shape. An intimate, quirky environment with personalized accommodation and services/facilities. Our unique apartment will be for let on a daily basis from mid May so watch this space.
The ricocohet's Bouncing Back project is now 4 weeks down the line and it gets brighter by the day. Ricochet & Portsea Place brings you a lifestyle stay in London, just 2 minutes away from Hyde Park (For more information please visit: www.ricochet.uk.com).

Save the date:

Portsea Place loves The Broken Hearts (myspace.com/2brokenhearts) – as Time Out says "Turntable Goddesses Amber and Nisha are guaranteed to pull out a plethora of delights from both the DJ crate and the dressing-up box". They’ll be here on 27th May along with Gabby Young so put the date in the diary.


Hot tip of the week:

"Pictures from an exhibition" at Sadler's Wells. Friday 23 & Saturday 24 of April.

22 Portsea Place bouncing back to work

22 Portsea Place has teamed up with HMP Wandsworths Job Club in an exciting building project supporting ex offenders back into the workplace as they refurbish an apartment. We'll be monitoring the project on a day-by-day basis. Watch this space and visit our website for more information www.22portseaplace.com

The Kardo Sessoeffs – a look at our past

Portsea Place is happy to share a glimpse into the life of the Kardo Sessoeff family before they left Russia in 1914. Discovered amongst the paintings and artworks are numerous documents and a wealth of exciting photographs including images from 1850.

These images are part of Mr Kardo- Sessoef personal effects and are now available for private view. Please go to our website for more details.

Heal's celebrates its bicentenary with triumphant artists in residence week

22 portsea Place and Heal's support young British artist.

Nadine Mahoney, a masters student at The Slade School of Art, was part of the Heal’s bicentennial celebrations . This involved giving the entire window over to the students and their studios for a week. With extensive online and media inerest the activity was a footfall triumph and the atmosphere at the top end of Tottenham Court Road was transformed

Heals - Private View from adam dewhirst on Vimeo.

See Nadine's blog Www.nadinemahoney.blogspot.com . or visit www.nadinemahoney.com for more details of Nadine's work.

KIKI SALON AT PORTSEA PLACE


Following the steps of Zika Ascher and Lida Tydlitat, who are described by many as having made a revolution in industrial design, Portsea Place is delighted to be a part of Miss Kiki salon, which strives to divulge and promote the work of emerging artists, photographers, illustrators, poets, musicians, writers and philosophers in a very compelling way – the production of scarves with designs by modern artists.

In 1945, from a telephone in Cafe du Rond Pont des Champs- Elysees, Paris, Mr. Ascher explained to the greatest artists of the day including Braque and Picasso his idea of designs for fabrics, Ascher had an incredible ability to match these famous artist’s works on silk. The innovation of this sensitive man made more than 8 Vogue covers all over the world in one month alone and became a world fashion sensation still followed today by brands like Hermès and Dior among others.

A few carefully chosen British artists are now designing a collection of illustration that will be reproduced on silk scarves, for this inaugural collection we named it Six Easy Pieces. These works will become part (and displayed) in our regular salons at Portsea Place. Please go to Miss Kiki website (misskikisalonpresents.co.uk) or to Portsea Place website (22portseaplace.com) to be a part of this terrific project. Alternatively just look at the stunning scarves which are for sale on http://misskikisalonpresents.co.uk/cgi-bin/online/storepro.php

P.S. HOT TIP

Madness in Valencia
Trafalgar Studios

Tom Watt, Portsea Place regular, is in this highly acclaimed production at Trafalgar Studios. We love it – and there’s still just time to catch it before it ends on March 6th.


N.B. Tonight at Bloomsbury Ballroom see the fantastic Gabby Young live - The doors open at around 8.000pm, there will be stalls with people selling beautiful things, a steel band and DJs, followed by Gabby's performance at around 9.15. There is a private after party in the art deco bar afterwards.

The Portsea Team.

Indian therapy

As previously mentioned, the brilliant Hafizur Rehman, our international massage therapist from India, is still taking appointments for two more weeks.

Mr. Rehman 's experience and following is legion. Trained in Calcutta with diplomas in massage, acupressure, yoga and ayuveda, he has more than 15 years experience. Having worked in Delhi with celebrity clients in Bollywood as well as Hollywood he has been flown to Dubai, Slovakia the UK and US amongst other countries by passionate clients.

His unique massage relaxes, promotes well-being and more importantly his massage is also highly therapeutic as it contributes to pain relief, anxiety reduction and immune system stimulation, as well as aiding blood pressure and heart rate disparities.

This Indian body expert has successfully treated patients with cancer and sports injuries all over the world. .

In his last UK visit, in November 2009, Mr. Rehman became the number one masseur amongst his English clientele and he has been travelling throughout the UK responding to requests.

The Portsea Team highly recommends Mr. Rehman services. He is now taking in-house appointments as well as outcalls requests. To book a slot please call 02072624169.

The Portsea Team