SOUVENIR SHOP

Julie Caves is a Margate-based artist who has embraced the genre of still life in all its guises and painterly possibilities. She finds objects and our love of them and the spaces that we live in with them, endlessly fascinating. She sometimes approaches her subject directly and paints ‘roomscapes’ and objects from observation, but often she focuses just on the colour and light separated from the subject, letting the painting develop intuitively, and those works are usually read as abstract paintings. She has recently started applying a similar abstract approach to ceramic sculpture to see how the 3-dimensional form interrupts the colour relationships and interacts with the light.

Alice Herrick is a London born artist and curator with a 1st Class Fine Art BA from Kingston University and an MA in Painting from Chelsea College of Art. Alongside her own practice and freelance curating, Alice was founding director of Herrick Gallery in Shoreditch and Mayfair 2012-19. She moved from London to Margate in 2023 and played a key role in launching Turps Margate in 2025 as the mentoring programme’s coordinator. Alice has a studio in central Margate and is working on curation projects with Turps Margate alumni, Contemporary Kent Artists and with local and international artists for an upcoming group show at Liminal Gallery.