Bon Volks Summer Art 4x4
This summer Bon Volks Studio will be hosting a series of single-day art events showcasing pieces and projects from an eclectic mix of artists and performers. Each mini-show will be its own unique combination of artists and disciplines, from painting and photography, to sound and literature, making each event a weekly opportunity to discover a little of what is going on behind closed doors.
These drop-in events will take place on consecutive Saturdays between 16th August until 6th September between 11.00 - 16.00 at Bon Volks Studio, and will showcase work from Bon Volks members, artist from the local community, and visiting artists.
Featured Artists
Saturday 16th August 2025
11.00 - 16.00 @ Bon Volks
Adam Bartlett
Adam Bartlett is a UK-based artist known for his bold, tropical-inspired paintings that blend wild animals, vibrant patterns, and everyday interiors. Working under the name Tigers of the Universe, his work fuses graphic energy with playful spontaneity, celebrating nature in all its colour and chaos.
David Lee
Arses about with 3D printing making heads, endless heads, trying to find the inner Dave.
Nic Hinton
Walking a line between ‘badly done’ and ‘on purpose’ Nic translates sketches from his note books into larger formats with a focus on the process rather than the result.
Tom Adams
Tom Adams is a composer, performer, and creative director based at Bon Volks, best known for spearheading the Headphone Story audio series in collaboration with BBC Radio 4. With over a decade of Arts Council–backed projects and national tours—from theatre and VR experiences to live community work—his multidisciplinary practice blends sound, narrative, and performance.
The Droz Sisters
Home schooled kids who live in the Bon Volks neighbourhood, the Droz sisters are finding their artistic flare as they draw, paint, make, game, and generally wreak havoc and produce pure creative chaos in their home. They can sometimes be found outside their front door trying to sell their artwork for pocket money. So they’ve been working on compiling their delightful designs for this special exhibit celebrating childhood play, freedom, and expression.
Saturday 23th August 2025
Anna Kristoferson
Anna Kristoferson is a Swedish-born Margate-based artist and music producer working under the moniker Roleplay. Her music fuses layered vocal harmonies, bold bass lines and cinematic composition to create dreamy, infectious pop with a 90s touch. As a multidisciplinary artist, Kristoferson art directs the visual universe of Roleplay and has built a close team of collaborators to help shape its distinctive surreal aesthetic. Also a classically trained vocalist and voice actor, she has voiced campaigns for brands like YouTube, IKEA, Adidas, Volvo and Sky Atlantic. Kristoferson contributed vocals to ‘No Use’, the Emmy-nominated track from HBO’s True Detective, and features in the BAFTA-winning game TOEM
Dylan White
Via his repeated island motif, Dylan moves between animation and drawing, analogue and digital. With a background in music promos, commercials, short film and series animation, his art practice uses an iconic landscape to focus on persistent themes of animism and deep time.
Julie Caves
Julie Caves is a Margate-based artist whose vibrant, light-filled paintings explore the boundary between still life and abstraction. With a background in painting and curating, her work focuses on the everyday objects we live with—distilled into studies of colour, light, and form.
Rebecca Strickson
Rebecca Strickson is an illustrator and “do-er of things” based in Margate (formerly South London), whose vibrant, protest-inspired imagery draws on trade union and Arts & Crafts motifs. Working across illustration, murals, banners, and banners fabric hangings, her bold, community-driven aesthetic has attracted clients like Channel 4, Nike, Royal Mail, and The Southbank.
Saturday 30th August 2025
Diana Jarvis
Diana is a travel photographer and writer, working across both commercial and editorial. Her work has been published by The Independent, The Guardian, Wanderlust, Rough Guides, National Geographic Traveller, JRNY Magazine, Travel Africa and many others. Her specialism is flight-free, overland travel and nature-based tourism.
Her personal and creative projects focus on nature, wild spaces and our human connection to them.
Lillian Henley
Lillian Henley is a composer, performer, director, and educator, and a founding member of 1927 Theatre Company. She creates theatre and audio works—ranging from BBC Sound commissions to silent film accompaniments—and has composed for outlets like National Theatre and BBC Radio, while touring internationally.
Lily Prigent
Lily Mixe is a French artist based in the UK whose intricate work celebrates the overlooked beauty of the natural world. Blending science and imagination, her detailed drawings, paintings, and street installations explore the alien-like complexity of Earth’s species, from gallery walls to global cityscapes.
Rachelle Francis
Rachelle is a textile and social practice artist. The death of her mother Diana from addiction and the uncovering of 1,000 of her artworks motivated a career shift from 20 years as a fashion embroidery designer (for brands including Chanel and Alaia) into creative health. Posthumously collaborating with Diana, Rachelle stitches her narrative into cloth alongside delivering Arts Council England funded projects with charities. Her artist’s book Mind to Pen has been acquired by the Wellcome Collection.
@with_and_without_diana
Saturday 6th September 2025
David Shillinglaw
David Shillinglaw is a London- and Margate-based multimedia artist whose vibrant, folk-inspired work—ranging from murals and canvas to handmade books and installations—explores the complexities of the human condition, identity, and language through bursty, colorful compositions of faces, symbols, and words . A graduate of Central Saint Martins (2002), he exhibits globally and brings a playful yet thoughtful perspective to both street and studio art.
Laura Picarelli
Laura is a multidisciplinary artist working across oil painting, mixed media, and etching. Her work is rooted in the female gaze, delving into the representing and rediscovering women and their surroundings through the lens of a woman.
With a foundation diploma and a degree in art and design, Laura’s experience has allowed her practice to evolve into developing a strong personal style that focuses heavily on layering and reduction, she strips back detail to uncover raw emotion, shifting perspectives. Her work invites viewers to slow down, look closer, and discover stories hidden beneath the surface.
Marie Doinne
Marie is a bookbinder and writer. For the 4x4 show, she presents a woven paper piece using delicate Japanese and colorplan papers, drawing on the tactile qualities of the materials to create layered, linear patterns.
Ollie Harrop
Ollie Harrop is a Margate-based photographer specialising in fine art, editorial, and documentary photography. His clients include The Freud Museum, Tate Galleries, The Zabludowicz Collection, Carl Freedman Gallery, and The Arts Council. Notably, he collaborated on the impactful "Everyday Plastic" mural at Dreamland, Margate, which visually represented a year's worth of plastic waste collected by artist Daniel Webb.