Mapping the Familiar

I’ve been thinking a lot about familiar places — the ones we move through every day without really noticing — and how they hold memory, routine and quiet significance. Mapping the Familiar grew out of that thinking.

Screen shot from The Arc events website page

Hampshire Cultural Trust exhibition team, Kirsty Rodda, John Reid and Boris Allenou hanging Mapping the Familiar artwork. Photo Mark Jones

The exhibition brings together recent paintings and lino prints, shown at The Arc, Winchester from 5 February to 12 April 2026. Much of the work starts with walking, mapping and drawing ordinary environments, then returning to them through printmaking as a way of slowing things down and paying closer attention

Alongside the studio work, I’ve been spending time working with communities through printmaking workshops, most recently on the Boorley Green Community Centre public art frieze. These sessions were about shared making — mapping places together, swapping stories, and turning collective experience into something tangible and lasting. That sense of participation and shared authorship feeds directly back into the exhibition.

Acrylic on Canvas paintings at Mapping the Familiar Exhibition The Arc Winchester. Photo Mark Jones

The opening is on Saturday 7 February (9.00–16.30), and the work will be up until April. I’m also showing work from the project at Printfest, Ulverston, for those closer to the North.

More soon.