Join us for this Drawing Session with Jeanette Barnes, exhibiting artist, during London Open House Weekend at Trinity Buoy Wharf

Join us for this Open House Sketch Session at Trinity Buoy Wharf with Jeanette Barnes, exhibiting artist, in association with London Open House at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London on Sunday 20 September at 2pm.

Be inspired by the 92 drawing on show in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2026 exhibition and enjoy this unique opportunity to sketch at Trinity Buoy Wharf, with its inspiring architecture and riverside location, in a drawing session led by the artist Jeanette Barnes, who sketches on location as an integral element of her drawing practice. Drawing materials will be available but please bring along a sketchbook and pencils, and wear walking shoes and weather appropriate clothes. Suitable for 16+. The session runs for 1.5 hours, please gather in the exhibition before 2pm, as the session will start promptly.

Jeanette Barnes' work explores the complexity of urban life and the shared public spaces where different lives come together. Through fractured marks and a sense of speed, she captures the energy of the city while encouraging viewers to slow down, look closely and observe the details of these constantly changing environments.

Her drawing, Liverpool St. Interior - For Now, 2026, included in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2026 exhibition, is a large drawing made in compressed charcoal on paper (146 x 214cm). Jeanette says of her drawing: Liverpool Street Station is a place I have returned to repeatedly over many years. I am continually drawn to its vast iron pillars and sweeping spans, but also to the way the architecture is animated by the movement of people passing through it. This remarkable structure, combining Victorian engineering with contemporary urban life, becomes a setting where countless different lives briefly intersect, sharing the same space before dispersing again. With plans for major redevelopment that could fundamentally alter its character, I felt compelled to draw the station once more. The drawing was developed through a process of continual revision: erasing areas, reworking previous marks and rebuilding connections between the architecture and the people within it. The contrast between dense areas of charcoal and passages of light creates a sense of movement, depth and the changing rhythms of the station.

Her work explores the complexity of urban life and the shared public spaces where different lives come together. Through fractured marks and a sense of speed, she captures the energy of the city while encouraging viewers to slow down, look closely and observe the details of these constantly changing environments.

About the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2026: Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2026, is the 32nd edition. A total of 92 drawings by 86 drawing practitioners were chosen by the two distinguished Selection Panels for the exhibition, and shortlisted for the annual awards.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2026 exhibition is open to the public from Thursday 17 September until Sunday 4 October 2026 at Trinity Buoy Wharf, open daily from 11am to 6pm. It will then tour to museums and galleries into 2027.

Accompanying the exhibition is a fully illustrated Exhibition Publication, a downloadable Education Pack, and a programme of educational events including a Drawing Symposium on Thursday 17 September 2026.

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