Arch Materials

ARCH gallery is under a railway station and is in a railway arch.
The street it is on is not a street, more like a wide alleyway with a few parked cars and bins, but is not smelly or creepy in anyway.
The gallery is amongst other arches that have various business's their.

You will see the sign ARCH and then you just slide the plastic doors and go in. It is a small space with white walls. On my right was this big purple plain kinda like a skateboard slope on the wall.

I was thinking too myself "Is this it? "where is the art? Well I went to the back and the artist was their. The back was like an office and plus where he stored his other artwork. He also had information table with leaflets about the events their and other art galleries around Deptford.

Well I asked the artist where the rest of the work is? He goes what do you mean? (its not my fault, I'am a novice in the art world). Well I quickly asked him "what inspired this work? which he explained.

ARCH gallery is host to a lot of solo artist and gives them a chance to exhibit their work. They also have selected shows as well.

Would I come here again, not really! Not just to see one piece of work.

So i've been around several art stores looking for cold press board. What can I say, i hate canvas, always have and always will!

The hours of this shop isn't great. But it's deptford, not west London. Which is why it's the last place I gone to find my boards.

Needless to say, they were fresh out. but it's nice to have someone behind the register know what the hell i'm talking about. They were fresh out. But i've found something similar which will do for a practice run.

So for a shop about 1/3rd of the size of the big inner london shops, they actually store more of what I need then the big shops do. And the person behind the counter is an actual artist. Well... I assume he is, he knew what I was talking about.

Next month their getting some strange metallic board you can paint on. I'm dying to see what this is!!!

Great place! I will certainly return!

PS: prices are better than the larger shops!