Those Fabulous Binnie Sisters

As always, time is passing extremely quickly. It was a week ago that my friend Christine Binnie, together with her sister Jennifer, transformed her flat into an art installation with events planned throughout October. It is the first time that they have exhibited as sisters, and according to their statement, “draws on their upbringing of creativity, spirituality and resourcefulness, nurtured in a bungalow on the edge of the South Downs by their artists parents – Kenneth, a printer, painter and follower of Rudolph Steiner, and Beryl – a weaver, spinner, Guide Leader, church choir member and pillar of the community”.

As well as paintings and objects by Jennifer, there are also Christine’s ceramics, of which I am a big fan

and this rather wonderful portrait of Christine by her father Kenneth.

There were performances too, the first of the night a collaboration between Christine and her mother Beryl, who had chosen these particular tea towels from their enormous collection, which Christine laundered and hung in the bathroom.

Then an outdoor performance with audience participation where Jennifer played violin and Christine sang, in the lovely raised bed garden she has made in the forgotten corner of the forecourt outside her block of flats.

No blight in EC1, her tomatoes are enormous.

She won a prize for this garden – quite right too!

For more information and to see what’s on and when, contact 07727 817 934 or 07940 859 485.


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