Jennifer Lauren Gallery

30/08/2026

TO INSPIRE | Mohammed M'rabet resides in Tangier and has been creating these ink drawings for years. Mainly in black and white, they occasionally feature colour and are always born from images in his rich imagination including varying figures, hands and creatures. He is also well-known as a storyteller and has around 20 books released in 25 different languages. If you want to see further works, please reach out, as these are very reasonably priced to support his current health requirements.

27/08/2026

NOW CLOSED | Thank you to everyone who took the time to visit Valerie Potter's solo exhibition in . It was a real joy to show off 40 years' worth of Valerie's works in the town she calls home, and for many pieces to be going off to new homes. Thanks also to those who attended Margate's Q***r Knitting Group in honour of Valerie - I hear it was a riot! Valerie is already busy creating new works, inspired by the many conversations she has had. Biggest thanks to Kavel Rafferty and Margate Pride for selecting Valerie to be their chosen artist in Kavel's space as part of the Margate Pride Art Map this year.

If you didn't make the show and were still interested in any works, please reach out and I can send a list over to you.

18/08/2026

TO INSPIRE | Robert ‘Scottie’ Wilson (1891-1972) lived in Glasgow but emigrated to Toronto in 1931. He started to draw during the 1930’s developing a very intense style ink drawing of dream-like creatures such as swans, birds, fish, trees and flowers and images of the eternal struggle between good and evil. In early in 1945 he returned to London, where he continued this practice, although he was quickly taken up by London’s Surrealists. Wilson relied on a relatively narrow range of visual elements – botanical forms, birds and animals, clowns (self-portraits), and ‘Greedies’ and ‘Evils’ (malignant personifications). As he once said, “I got into a trance and when I wake up, they’re all waiting for me”. His work has been exhibited all over the world including at the Tate, London; Wisconsin Museum of Art; the Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, and the Metropolitan Museum, New York.

Work is available.

Scottie Wilson, Untitled, n.d., Ink and pencil crayon on board, 20x26cm, 7.9x10.2 inches. Photo by Laura Hutchinson

17/08/2026

TO INSPIRE | A series of beautiful delicate flower drawings by French artist Catherine Garrigue have arrived with me, with two such examples here. These are quite old automatic drawings on bought handmade paper, drawn in black pen. Look out for all the details in them and the senstive marks made.

15/08/2026

15/08/2026

LAST TWO DAYS | Valerie Potter's solo exhibition is open 12-4 today and tomorrow (Sunday) before it wraps. So if you haven't yet visited the space in , pop it on your agenda and go be inspired by Valerie's drawings, paintings and embroideries.

(colour) Valerie Potter, Untitled (VP90), 2000, Pen on paper, 30x21cm, 11.7x8.4 inches. Photo by Ellie Walmsley
Cross-section of Human Skin. This is a biological slide, stained and laid out for view down a microscope. This is my version of what I believe the human body would look like in Outsider Human Biology.

Valerie Potter, Untitled (VP91), 2000, Pen on paper, 30x21cm, 11.7x8.4 inches. Photo by Ellie Walmsley
The Eternal Egg – timer. Whatever happens to us in life, the eternal egg-timer is always counting down. We are doomed to die whatever we do. There are faces gods and goddesses in the egg-timer that watch over us to keep us safe.

13/08/2026

LAST FOUR DAYS | you have just four days left to catch ‘Sunflowers and Quicksand’ - a solo exhibition by Valerie Potter - at in . Featuring works from the eighties until the present day /
This is a gem of a show with something for everyone!

Opening hours 12-4 or by appt / please contact the gallery if you’d like to attend at another time. Descriptions of these two embroidered works are below.

Valerie Potter, Untitled (VP72). 25.5x34cm, 10x13.4 inches. Photo by Ellie Walmsley
Tranquil Face. This is a peaceful and meditative face containing sperms and a tailed egg. All the human race needs are designed into that face and the teeth double as a keyboard for people to play and cheer each other up.

Valerie Potter, Untitled (VP222), n.d., Cross Stitch, 8.5x7.5cm. Photo by Laura Hutchinson
Pregnancy at your Peril. It seems to me (without children), that it must be very scary to be pregnant and this embroidery displays the vulnerability and the need to fight against the evil forces that are associated with pregnancy.

11/08/2026

TO LISTEN | visit the exhibition page about Valerie Potter’s exhibition on Jennifer’s website to see Valerie in conversation with her gallerist Jennifer Gilbert. It is 20 minutes long and a transcript is available in PDF and word formats.

Here is a short snippet (sound on) of that conversation from Saturday 1 August 2026. The exhibition continues this week Thursday-Sunday 12-4, or by appointment if better for you.

“Do you want to talk about your process for how you do your images? So, underneath these ones, you do like a pencil sketch, and you’ve said you have to catch something in the moment right?

Valerie: Yes, they’re not thought about at all. I sit down with a piece of blank paper and I start. Sometimes with the little ones, the little cross-stitch ones, I’ll get a symbol in my head, and it’ll be for instance a pear drop, or a diamond or something, and I put that down. I write on the material with a pencil and then I go over it in ink. And I get the main symbol down and then I elaborate on that. That’s how the little ones are done. But the drawings, I just sit down with a bit of paper and pencil, and I have a big rubber, and I rub a lot of it out. And then I go over it in ink. this Uniball clean pens. I don’t know if anybody knows those, but I use those to put down the main image. And that’s sort of how I do it. And then I just elaborate on top of that.

Jennifer: And then you look at it afterwards and decide, “What the hell have I just drawn?””

08/08/2026

CATS | It’s international cat day - so to celebrate here’s some cats from Japanese artist Takashi Iga!

07/08/2026

TODAY | Valerie Potter is in her solo show in today at projects_kavelrafferty and is happy to chat to any visitors about her incredible range of work from the eighties until now. The exhibition is open until 4pm today and then 12-4 over the weekend too, oh and Thursday-Sunday next week!

“With pieces revealing fantastical landscapes and microscopic worlds fuelled by the artist’s love of botany; tying together symbols of birth, death and love with non-religious iconography. Prepare to see Vikings frolicking in space, a pig man growing wings, and two kidneys having a good time … this exhibition is one not to be missed, delving into the remarkable, unconventional mind of Valerie Potter.

This exhibition forms part of the Margate Pride Art Map. Catch the exhibition in the old post office in Cecil Square.

Thanks to Jane England for this lovely photo of Valerie from the opening last week ❤️