Alessandra D'Innella
Alessandra D'Innella
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6–8 November 2026 · Storey Road, Highgate, N6 4ED
Contemporary artistsArt workshopChildren’s exhibition
A weekend of original, affordable contemporary art in the Victorian hall of Highgate Primary School — nearly 40 artists, galleries and collectives showing straight from the studio.
Highgate Art Fair began as a village exhibition and has grown, one year at a time, into one of North London’s most talked-about art weekends — without losing the thing that made it worth visiting: you can still talk to the person who made the work.
Painters, printmakers, photographers and makers work from studios across Highgate, London and further afield, showing together under one roof, each selected directly rather than through a gallery.
The venue does a lot of the work for us. The Victorian hall at Highgate Primary School has soaring windows and exposed timber trusses, filling the room with a warm, natural light that flatters every piece on the walls.
Over 50 exhibitors, a children’s exhibition, artworks for all and delicious refreshments — an action packed weekend of creativity awaits.
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Alicia Felberbaum is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in London, with an MFA from Goldsmiths, University of London (1994). Over several decades, her practice has evolved from an early focus on video art—exhibited internationally—into digital design, material experimentation, and contemporary jewellery. This cross-disciplinary approach continues to shape her work today. Her practice seeks to dissolve the boundaries between art and design, craft and code, exploring how contemporary tools can embody both the weight of personal history and the immediacy of gesture.
Rooted in a lifelong engagement with drawing, her current body of work investigates the convergence of analogue mark-making and digital processes. She creates limited-edition digital prints that probe visual rhythm, materiality, and the perceptual effects of colour. Inspired in part by David Hockney's early use of digital media in his 2011 Royal Academy exhibition, she treats technology not as a substitute for traditional methods but as an extension of the artist's hand.
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I see art-making as a process of creating new experiences while reconnecting with memories. I am an intuitive abstract artist who creates paintings that stimulate imagination and awaken creativity. I approach the white surface freely, without a predetermined idea, thought, or expectation. My inspiration emerges from memories, emotions, photographs, and visible subjects, which I translate into pure, colored abstract forms. The composition unfolds over time through the addition and removal of marks, combining intuitive impulses with active, deliberate gestures. I primarily work with acrylic on paper, canvas, and board, experimenting with diverse tools and textures such as recycled materials, sponges, textiles, ribbons, rags, leaves, and sticks. For me, painting is a way to detach from rules, limitations, and constraints. Within endless possibilities, the outcome gradually reveals itself through the process. Alongside my art practice, I offer mindful painting and coaching sessions, supporting others in reclaiming their creative spark, gaining clarity, and finding flow through their unique process.
A collaborative stand from printmaker Gerard McDonagh (Bravespears) and urban landscape artist Hilary Masetti.
Gerard McDonagh is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is centred on printmaking, alongside painting, collage and film. Working with images drawn from popular culture and narrative, he uses print to reshape and reframe familiar material.
Screen printing, intaglio and collage are central to the way he works. Images are built through layering, repetition and interruption, allowing details, references and shifts in meaning to emerge over time. Whether in prints, paintings or mixed-media pieces, the work is direct in its visual impact but open in how it can be read.
Printmaking is not only his primary medium but the basis of his wider approach. Its structure, discipline and physical processes carry through the rest of his practice, where painted and collaged elements are used with the same attention to surface, composition and change. The result is work that holds together as image while leaving space for ambiguity, tension and discovery.
Hilary Masetti is an Urban Landscape Artist, based in Muswell Hill, North London. Her work is inspired by her love for architecture and fine detail and the charm of North London buildings. All Hilary's pieces are drawn by hand in her Muswell Hill studio. In every drawing she captures the way light hits different surfaces, showing off their varying colours and textures and highlighting their unique characteristics.
Hilary chooses to use ink and pencil or brush-pen in all her work as these lend themselves beautifully to the buildings and scenes she draws, enabling her to capture the tiniest of details and producing a vibrant and sharp finish.
Hilary exhibits regularly at a number of North London venues. Her work is sold widely both in the UK and abroad.
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Caroline Matthews ASGFA paints and draws treescapes and loves being in the woods and capturing the beauty of nature. Her work is more than just representations of trees; it is an expression of a moment in time; a pathway to light, and an exploration of the intricacies and textures found in nature. Caroline's work describes a peaceful, yet uplifting atmosphere that invites viewers to breathe deeply and feel the space around them, as a form of escapism, cocooned by nature.
Caroline is an award winning full-time practicing artist, an Associate Member of the Society of Graphic Fine Art and a member of the Studio Fridays group. She has a background in education and worked as a teacher for 32 years. She has exhibited at the Mall Galleries London with the Pastel Society 2024/25/26 and The Society of Graphic Fine Art 2024/25/26, the ING Discerning Eye 2024 and the Royal Society of British Artists 2025.
Charlotte Farmer is a screen printer and illustrator. Her work is about finding beauty in everyday objects and she has a particular affinity for bold colours and fine detail. From matchboxes and vintage tins to tropical birds and wild cats, Charlotte's prints are all about storytelling and the characters within each narrative.
Cody Choi is a contemporary photographer and choreographer known for his stunning figurative portraits of dancers. Born in Hong Kong and a dancer himself, Cody captures the dynamism and passion of his subjects with an expert eye. Cody's work is funded by the Arts Council England, as well as commissioned by the Royal Opera House, Greenwich Dance London and exhibited globally.
FROM DANCER TO PHOTOGRAPHER
Cody graduated in Modern Dance in 2000 from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, where he received the Jackie Chan Scholarship twice. Cody was then awarded a full scholarship to join the Transitions Dance Company at Laban in London. He has a breadth of international performing experience, including 3 international touring seasons with Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake as well as the English National Opera and the Royal National Theatre. This has no doubt provided the artist with the photographic reflexes and perception required to apprehend and seize the trajectory of his dancers as they glide through urban and suburban landscapes.
Danic Lago is a Brazilian artist based in London, working with mixed media collage. Her practice is rooted in over 25 years of creative experience developed across Switzerland, Mexico, and the UK, shaped by an early career in fashion trend research and close collaborations with European and Brazilian designers.
Her work explores strength and emotion shaped by the intuition of the divine feminine. Using textiles, colour, and found objects, Danic creates layered compositions that function as visual poetry, handmade narratives that invite reflection, curiosity, and personal interpretation. Each piece unfolds slowly, revealing meaning through subtle symbolism.
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Emma is interested in the places and moments where we can find calmness and space as a balance to our busy urban lives. growing up in the countryside but based in london for the last 25 years, she is always chasing space. living in such a dense city, Emma finds herself drawn to creating work that has an open vista and a clear horizon. Continually inspired by nature and landscape, Emma is a natural compositor and uses drawing, photography, painting and printing within her craft of each unique artwork. More recently, Emma been drawn to Plein Air drawing. The Heath and natural spaces of north London feature heavily in her work.
Florence is a painter and printmaker returning to Highgate Art Fair, working across paint and print.
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Gabriella Buckingham has worked in the creative industries for three decades. She is fascinated by colour, shape and conveying a sense of feeling. That might mean contemplating relationships through still life or letting freedom and the unseen inspire abstract work. Combining memory and imagination with objective reality means that there is always an innate freedom her work. Gabriella's art has been selected for the Jacksons' Art Prize, The Discerning Eye, The ING - Figurative Art Now and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, featuring in the 2025 RA calendar.
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Gerry Buxton is printmaker based in South East London. His work is in the tradition and aesthetic of British Pop Art. He has exhibited at art fairs in London, New York, Los Angeles, Munich and Frankfurt. He has completed commissioned works for clients including The Tate Modern, London City Airport and The Marylebone Cricket Club.
Screenprinting
I am a screen printer mainly interested in landscapes. My images are very colourful and painterly.
Jenna Waldren's practice is deeply rooted in the act of looking. Through observing her immediate surroundings her work acts as an almost autobiography: documenting glimmers from her daily life. Using drawing, painting and printmaking in a careful and tender manner, her work experiments with the balance of the graphic versus the painterly, juxtaposing bold lines against delicate, detailed areas of focus.
Jenna graduated from the BA (Hons) Painting programme at the University of Edinburgh with a First-Class Honours in 2021. Since then, she has been awarded the BTA Rising Star Award, reached the semi-finals of Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2024, and was shortlisted for the Husketh Hubbard Bursary. She has also been longlisted for the Scottish Portrait Award 2023, Jackson's Art Prize 2026 and was the Winner of the London First Prize Arts Depot Open 2018. Recently, she has been selected for the RBA Rising Star exhibition which will be held at the Royal Over-Seas League (ROSL) in May 2026.
Kayleigh Young is an abstract artist working from her studio in Hertfordshire, England.
Young holds a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design as well as a Bachelor of Science from the University of Manchester. She worked in fashion marketing prior to reconnecting with her passion for hands-on creativity and a love of painting.
Her abstract works are often characterised by a bold use of colour and shape, layered washes and loose mark making. Moving fluidly and instinctively in a flow-like state, trusting her intuition to guide each gesture, Young's practice creates a pocket of stillness in an otherwise bustling life of motherhood. Each work embodies her playful approach to movement and intersection; created through relaxed lines and pigments diffusing in to one another, guiding the viewer's eye across the canvas.
K. Lee began creating his artwork in 2004. Since then, he has exhibited and sold his work from his studio and galleries worldwide. He found that, to him, art/creative work is a subject with many definitions. For that, he uses a lot of inspiration from nature and his early morning walks in London's parks. Keng Wai's subjects are figurative, with emphasis on bright colours and bold lines. By creating a story, he aims to give the viewer a lasting impression, inspire and evoke memories; then he has done his job.
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I am a painter/printmaker. I work with mixed media and screen print. I have shown my work in many different exhibitions and have won a number of prizes. I am a member of the Greenwich Printmakers and have written two practical art books for Harper Collins and Batsford Books and also articles for The Artist Magazine and Artist and Illustrator. I also teach art in many different settings. My subject matter comes from landscapes and also natural /Manmade form but above all,, in all subject areas, my passionate interest is in colour and its interaction with eachother and appearance on the picture plane to create excitement and atmosphere. I try to create work with dynamic compositions and I love the action of doing my work and resolving the paintings/prints in as strong a way as possible.
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My artistic practice is deeply rooted in sustainability and mindfulness. As an abstract painter, I create handmade watercolours from foraged earth minerals and work on off-cut linen to minimise my environmental impact. This process reflects my commitment to eco-conscious art, using nature as an inspiration and medium. Each painting tells a unique story drawn from urban and rural landscapes, sparking conversations about climate change, the cosmos, and the importance of being present. Slowing down and practising mindfulness is central to my creative process. Quiet, delicate art can offer a sense of calm, enhance well-being, and encourage deeper reflection. Through subtle, textured compositions, I invite viewers to pause, find stillness, and reconnect with nature and themselves. My work also serves as a call to action, challenging societal norms and prompting awareness of our environment. Informed by extensive research on science, the environment, and consciousness, I combine storytelling and abstraction to inspire collective action toward a more sustainable future. Through exploring our interaction with the natural world, my paintings encourage a more grounded, attentive, and eco-conscious way of life.
I make tiny worlds in boxes called Glass Cathedrals. Inspired by the power of the miniature to communicate big ideas and feelings, I've made thousands since 2004, in Cape Town, California, and now London. My art is shown all over the world, including art fairs in New York, Los Angeles - and London! Glass Cathedrals are also part of Small is Beautiful (Paris, London, NYC, Milan) – the world's biggest exhibition of miniature art.
Marc Southey (b. 1974, Great Yarmouth, UK) is a contemporary artist based in London, UK. Working primarily in coloured pencil, pastel, and graphite on paper, he is best known for his distinctive and dynamic visual language that captures the green spaces of North London and surrounding area.
Marc's work takes an intuitive approach to landscape, exploring the interplay of colour and mark making. His drawings are characterised by a fluid and expressive style that reflects his deep engagement with the natural environment and art historical influences. Notable projects include a series of drawings inspired by his local running trails and developed further through a sustained studio practice rooted in observation and memory.
Marc Southey has exhibited at the Mall Galleries in London as part of the Pastel Society exhibitions in 2024 and 2025. His work has been acquired by various private national and international collections, and he participated in Sky Arts' Landscape Artist of the Year in 2022.
A graduate of architecture and engineering in Milan, Marco has settled in London following a period of global exploration. His work is exhibited in galleries throughout the UK and internationally. Driven by a fascination with the natural and geometric worlds, Marco creates evocative artwork and collaborates with architects and interior designers to produce bespoke signature pieces."
I'm a local artist specialising in screenprinting. I am inspired by local (often unsung) landmarks and the personal histories they evoke. I started with an artwork of Alexandra Palace nearly 20 years ago and then a pop-up exhibition in Highgate Village. I'm also co-owner of T&T a gift shop in Muswell Hill / Alexandra Palace where I exhibit my work and collaborate with my partner in retail on textile artwork projects. I design all my own artworks and screenprint each edition by hand in an open access studio. I am very interested in local buildings and have several artworks of the Highgate area such as Highpoint and the connected architecture of The Penguin Pool in London Zoo. I'd love to show a range of my work in the surrounds of it's inspiration again.
Nicky's paintings are uplifting and joyful, she works in mixed media to produce two distinct collections of work - elegant and stylised paintings of trees which shimmer with light reflecting iridescent paint, and highly textured figures which are collaged directly from life. She studied at Central St Martin's School of Art, and has been painting full time professionally since 2010. Nicky's paintings are available from art galleries and at Art Fairs in the UK and in France and Portugal, and are owned by collectors internationally. She also has a range of prints licensed to John Lewis.
Patrick is a London-based artist specialising in limited-edition prints.
He has exhibited at Palette and Frame Gallery N8, in a group show with Jealous Gallery Shoreditch, and in a self-promoted show at Picture House, Crouch End. He is represented by MK Contemporary Gallery on Artsy, and has shown at Fresh Art Fair 2026 and Untitled Art Fair 2025.
Paul was born in Carlisle, Cumbria. Paul has always been drawn to the moods and atmospheres created by the elements on land and sea and the effect it has on land and sea and the effect it has on colours.
Paul is a semi abstract painter inspired by atmospheres of coast and landscape, working in acrylic and oil. He has a fascination for the play of light on waters, on the land and in the skies.
He draws on his travels and stays on Islands and coastlines around the British Isles, and his upbringing in the English Lake District.
He frequenty exhibits at art fairs and galleries.
Rebecca Denton is a full-time painter and printmaker from North London. She regularly exhibits, has work permanently in the Southbank Printmakers Gallery and prints archived in museum collections including London's V+A and collectors worldwide.
Rebecca creates etchings and monotypes including local scenes of Hampstead Heath and Highgate.
Her etchings capture moments and relations between people, celebrating friendships, memories and the simple joys of life. They have an ethereal quality and are uplifting and hopeful.
Inspired by her love for cold water swimming, recent work features London's lidos and half-hidden, intimate swim spots including the Hampstead ponds.
Rebecca refers to her drawings and visual memory and prefers to draw in the diffused light of early morning or when the light is low.. "Light is everything.. creating soft colour, gentle shadows, mood and drama."
Her monotypes, one-off ‘printed paintings' allow her to catch the ‘moment' by working quickly:
"It's a painterly process which forces me to work quickly before the ink dries resulting in a unique spontaneity and energy coming to life in each print."
Covid put a halt to my career as a commercials director and to fill the creative vacuum I returned to the experimental work I had pursued as a photography student. Each day I would explore the high streets and backstreets of North London in search of textures. At home I would collage these images together into what I call ‘Graphic works of Dubious Splendor'. I would then print on metal. This became an obsession and seven books and four solo exhibitions later these creations have become a full-time occupation. The pursuit of this interest has taken me to New York, Istanbul, Muscat, Riyadh and Cairo. The latest photography project ‘Fifty-Two Stops' was a five month voyage of discovery along the the high streets of the Northern Line from High Barnet and Edgware to Morden. In March 2026 I started a three year artist in residency on a 32 storey construction site in Nine Elms.
I am an artist-printmaker based in London. I mostly produce screenprints, linocuts and giclee prints of my coloured drawings.
In my work I illustrate underlying issues and context in society while also seeking original ways to look at composition and colour. I am particularly interested in the environment, development and our urban and rural landscapes and how these things interact. I emphasise blocks of colour, strong geometric shapes, and contrasting patterns and textures. Most of my pictures are landscapes often with a focus on simplified composition. For my screenprints I take an iterative, reduction approach with layers built up with paper stencils and block-out paint.
My latest work has been exploring abstraction of rural landscape scenes in North Wales and the Pennines. I have recently completed a series of pictures exploring the industrial heritage and natural environment of Walthamstow Wetlands and the Lea Valley.
I am mostly self-taught but also learned on courses at open access print studios. I was active in Birmingham Print Workshop and on moving back to London I founded East London Printmakers.
I have exhibited in group and solo shows in locations including London, Birmingham, Bristol and Cardiff and venues and shows including: the London Art Biennale 2021; Royal West of England Academy Annual Open; London City Hall; Woolwich Print Fair; and the Princes Foundation. I won the Printmaking Today prize at the 2023 Festival of Print and the ArtGemini print prize 2024. I have been short-listed for the Jackson's Art Prize 2025.
I was selected to take part in Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year in 2021.
“I love the flatness of the colours, and the way the pigment goes down is very beautiful... It's quite magical.”Tai-Shan Schierenberg, painter
“I think his colour palette is great. He's a very sophisticated artist.”Kate Bryan, art historian & curator
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I am an abstract artist born and raised across the vibrant cities of India, where constant movement exposed me to a rich tapestry of cultures, languages, and traditions. Growing up, art didn't seem like an option—studying it felt like a distant dream. Yet, life has a way of leading us where we're meant to be.
With a background in surface textiles, I developed a keen eye for texture and an intuitive understanding of color, which now shape my expressive, layered paintings.Having painted all my life I finally took the decision in 2020 to persue my art full time, I left behind the structured world of textile design, trained at the London College of Fashion, and embraced abstraction's untamed beauty.
Now, working from my Hertfordshire studio, I paint the in-between—silences that hum, chaos that heals. Inspired by the natural world and the fluidity of the sea, a force that shaped my childhood as the daughter of a naval officer, I translate movement, memory, and emotion onto the canvas. My process involves layering textures, colors, and spontaneous marks, resulting in deeply emotive works that echo personal and collective experiences. My work serves as a bridge between past and present, inviting viewers to linger, reflect, and find their own meanings in the abstract forms.
My paintings are vibrant, colourful and expressive and with them I hope to explore the energy and diversity of the world around us.
I mainly paint in oils and acrylics and enjoy a wide range of subjects, including landscape, still-life and portraits.
As a keen walker I have always been drawn towards rural landscapes, returning to my favourite mountains, coastal paths and forests. I paint plein air, experiencing the elements and responding to the changing light.
More recently I have enjoyed depicting urban landscapes, where I also celebrate pattern and colour and find inspiration in the juxtaposition of man-made and the natural world.
I am a practicing GP and while working throughout the pandemic I became increasingly aware of the importance of nature and urban green spaces for the wellbeing of those who live in cities.
In my work I hope to draw attention to these wilder greener places in London where I live. I have explored and painted in community gardens, parks, by canals, on roof tops and along the Thames and often put up my easel on Hampstead Heath and in the Highgate allotments where I am artist in residence.
I am keen to return to the same subject or place, at different times of year, creating a series of work reflecting the changing seasons or my mood. I have completed a series of paintings on Hampstead Heath, and at the Highgate allotments and last year I painted a monthly series of trees.
If the weather makes it impossible to paint outdoors, I return to other favourite themes, flowers, fruit and fish. I have always found the patterns and colours of mackerel especially captivating to paint.
I am also interested in community art and the power of creativity for mental health. I have led mosaic making projects at my GP practice in Islington, at the Whittington and Great Ormond Street Hospitals encompassing NHS staff well-being and team building. Vulnerable and isolated patients participated in the Health Centre Bench Project through Social Prescribing and we achieved engagement of the wider local community and urban improvement.
Full profile coming soon — meet them in person on the stand at this year's fair.
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Full profile coming soon — meet them in person on the stand at this year's fair.
Full profile coming soon — meet them in person on the stand at this year's fair.
Contemporary abstract artist working with a mixed media approach with an emphasis on deep texture and colour. Informed by the natural world and cultural references Zoes background in interior design ensures each of her pieces are designed to become the focal point of their environment. Zoe welcomes bespoke commissions and is listed with galleries in London and Surrey.
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Step away from the fair and get hands-on in our Art Studio, with an exciting programme of creative workshops running throughout the weekend — a chance to make, play and create alongside the artists, whether you’re trying something new or developing an existing passion.
Places are limited — tickets can be booked in advance.
Drop-in painting, printmaking and ceramics sessions led by local artists and art educators, suitable from age 4. Sessions run at 12–1.30pm, 2–3.30pm and 4–5.30pm on Saturday and Sunday.
£15 per sessionA true highlight of Highgate Art Fair, our Children’s Exhibition returns for its third year! Showcasing an extraordinary range of work created in the Art Studio by children aged 3–11 from Highgate Primary School, the exhibition celebrates imagination, experimentation and creativity across a variety of media. Taught and curated by the school’s specialist Art Teacher, Andrea Rodriguez Lagartos, this is a wonderful opportunity to discover the ideas, energy and talent of the artists at Highgate Primary.
Included with entryThe fair runs across three days, each with a slightly different mood — from the private view on Friday evening to a quieter Sunday afternoon browse.
Storey Road, N6 4ED
Highgate Primary School, a ten-minute walk from Highgate tube (Northern line) and served by the 143, 210 and 271 buses.
Limited step-free access — email ahead if you have specific access needs and we’ll help you plan your visit.
Private view
5.30–9pm. Meet the artists, first look at the work, and a bar in the hall.
Early bird tickets from £16 — limited tickets available, with proceeds supporting the fair’s workshop and children’s programme.
Open weekend
10.30am–6pm both days. Tickets from £6.40 concession, £8 general admission — we recommend booking in advance.
Workshops run throughout; book a slot on arrival or in advance.
Early bird private view tickets from £16. General admission from £6.40, concessions available.
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