Discover Light, Symbolism, and Soul at Natasha Pearl Gallery – Final Weekend for EKAOH 2025
A Last Chance to Visit One of East Kent’s Most Evocative Exhibitions
As East Kent Artists’ Open Houses 2025 draws to a close, Natasha Pearl Gallery invites you to experience its final open weekend — a serene exhibition of four remarkable women artists, each offering a distinct perspective on nature, spirituality, memory, and transformation.
Tucked away in the Kent countryside at Chalkpit Farm, Adisham Road, Bekesbourne, the gallery is just minutes from Canterbury — yet feels like a world apart. Set beside MamaFeelGoods Café, it’s the perfect destination for quiet reflection and soulful art.
Open This Weekend Only
🗓️ Saturday 25th & Sunday 26th October 2025
🕰️ 10:00am – 5:00pm
📍 Natasha Pearl Gallery, CT4 5EU
📞 01227 831011 | ✉️ pearl@natashapearlgallery.co.uk
Located next to MamaFeelGoods Café
Free entry – no booking required
Disabled access available (assistance may be needed for one step)
Well-behaved dogs welcome
Four Artists. Four Languages of the Soul.
This intimate group exhibition brings together four artists working across disciplines — from gilded icons to cold wax, sculpture to surreal landscapes. What unites them is presence: a shared desire to express what can’t be spoken, only felt.
Natasha Pearl – Sanctuary of Light
Natasha’s current series transforms brass rubbings into layered mixed media icons — merging medieval geometry, sacred symbolism, and emotional texture. These luminous works are rooted in her exploration of light as memory, and memory as sanctuary.
Jeanette Cook – The Beauty of Becoming
Jeanette works across sculpture, glass, and painting, using natural forms like pods and seeds to express growth, decay, and rebirth. Her work is meditative — exploring the cycles of time, the power of emergence, and the spaces between seen and unseen.
Pari Aazami – Gilded Dreams and Earthly Echoes
Drawing on her Iranian roots and British upbringing, Pari blends photography and painting into gilded, dreamlike compositions. Her pieces capture the movement of leaves, the shimmer of sky, and the timelessness of myth — all signed in tribute to her family name.
Vivian Riches – Landscapes that Breathe
Vivian’s oil and cold wax paintings evoke stillness, mood, and atmosphere. Using sgraffito to carve into layers, she reveals the landscape’s shifting light and hidden energy. Her work is both tranquil and tactile — a sensory invitation to pause.
Why This Show Matters
In a world that moves fast, this is your chance to slow down.
Natasha Pearl Gallery offers not just an exhibition — but a sanctuary. A space where sacred forms, quiet detail, and elemental materials speak to something deeper. Here, each work whispers of ancestry, earth, ritual, and renewal.
This final weekend is your moment to step inside.
Plan Your Visit
CHRISTMAS ART SALE
Christmas Art Sale — two days only at Natasha Pearl Gallery. Art, mulled wine, and gifts framed in time for Christmas.
FRIDAY 21 NOV · 5:00 – 8:30PM
SATURDAY 22 NOV · 10:00AM – 8:00PM
A festive weekend of art & mulled wine.
Meet the artists and buy original works by acclaimed international and local talent.
Framing available in time for Christmas.
FRIDAY 21 NOV · 5:00 – 8:30PM
SATURDAY 22 NOV · 10:00AM – 8:00PM
Natasha Pearl Gallery, Bekesbourne, CT4 5EU
natashapearlgallery.co.uk | @natashapearlgallery
The Art of Detail: Ed Chapman’s Marilyn Monroe Mosaic Now at Natasha Pearl Gallery
A mosaic made of coins. A goddess reimagined. ```
Discover Ed Chapman’s breathtaking portrait of Marilyn Monroe — now on view at Natasha Pearl Gallery.
Ed Chapman’s Marilyn Monroe Mosaic Arrives in Kent
This masterpiece isn’t painted. It’s made entirely from thousands of British one-penny coins.
Now on view at Natasha Pearl Gallery in Kent, Ed Chapman’s breathtaking portrait of Marilyn Monroe blends iconic beauty with obsessive detail and British craftsmanship. Handcrafted from hundreds of precisely placed copper coins, this mosaic captures Monroe’s haunting expression with remarkable depth, light and shadow. It’s a piece that makes you look twice, and then lean in closer.
The Artist Behind the Mosaic: Who is Ed Chapman?
Ed Chapman is one of Britain’s most respected mosaic artists. For over 25 years, he has created portraits using unexpected materials including vinyl records, ceramic tiles, guitar plectrums, bullet casings, and now, coins. His works have been collected by household names such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Annie Lennox, and even footballers from the England national team.
Chapman’s art has appeared in international magazines, charity auctions, and global exhibitions. His Richard Burton mosaic, created with 500-million-year-old Welsh slate, is permanently installed at Swansea University. His work is now even taught in UK schools, alongside Picasso and Sir Peter Blake.
Why Coins? The Art of Unlikely Materials
Chapman is known for pushing the boundaries of traditional portraiture. In the case of the Marilyn Monroe mosaic, each coin acts like a pixel in a photographic image. The surface isn’t flat—it glows with subtle metallic shifts, reflecting light as you move around the piece.
It’s not just beautiful. It’s obsessively meticulous. Each mosaic fragment is hand-selected, cut, and placed with the precision of a watchmaker. Some pieces measure just a few millimetres wide.
Monroe Reimagined: A Goddess in Copper
The subject of this piece is instantly recognisable: Marilyn Monroe. But this isn’t the bombshell of the red carpet—this is Monroe as an icon, almost spiritual, her eyes closed, her face serene.
Rendered in varying tones of bronze, the mosaic evokes both nostalgia and reverence. The use of coins anchors her image in physical reality, but the precision of the work elevates her once more to the status of goddess.
A Collector’s Dream: Who Owns Ed Chapman’s Work?
Chapman’s collectors include royalty, celebrities, and institutions. His coin portrait of David Beckham, co-signed by the footballer himself, sold for over £8,000 at a UNICEF auction in Mayfair. Another mosaic of John Lennon raised £85,000 for Cancer Research at a gala auction hosted by Niall Horan and golfer Justin Rose.
Each of his artworks is a one-off, and many never make it to public view.
That’s why this Marilyn Monroe mosaic showing at Natasha Pearl Gallery is such a rare opportunity.
Now on View at Natasha Pearl Gallery
The Marilyn Monroe mosaic is available to view now at Natasha Pearl Gallery in Kent. Whether you’re an art collector, interior designer, or simply curious to see how thousands of copper coins become a luminous portrait, this is a work worth experiencing in person.
Gallery Location: Just 10 minutes from Canterbury with free on-site parking.
Every penny tells a story. Come and see them shine.
Meet the Artist: Dr Linda Smith – Soirée Invitation & Solo Exhibition
Join us for a soirée on 12 Sept with award-winning Kent artist Dr Linda Smith. Her new exhibition explores iconography, portraiture, and emotion through glass, ink, and gold leaf.
Join us for a special evening with award-winning Kent-based artist Dr Linda Smith and discover her powerful new body of work.
Meet the Artist Soirée
📅 Friday 12th September 2025
🕠 5:30pm – 8:00pm
📍 Natasha Pearl Gallery, Chalkpit Farm, Bekesbourne, CT4 5EU`
You’re warmly invited to an intimate Meet the Artist soirée to celebrate the opening of Dr Linda Smith’s new solo exhibition.
Enjoy drinks and conversation with Linda herself, explore the work, and hear the stories and techniques behind her captivating glass, ink, and figurative pieces. Whether you’re a long-time art lover or curious to discover something new, this is a relaxed and inspiring way to start your weekend.
Exhibition Dates
📅 12th September – 8th October 2025
📍 Natasha Pearl Gallery, Bekesbourne, Kent
Linda’s solo exhibition showcases a beautiful collection of recent work using glass, graphite, ink, egg tempera, and gold leaf. Her art explores the inner lives of people, the sacred traditions of icon painting, and our human connection to nature and the animal world.
About the Artist: Dr Linda Smith
Dr Linda Smith is a figurative artist based in Kent, with a distinctive background in both science and art. With a PhD in Chemistry and a career in education, she later trained in Fine Art Glass, Architectural Glass, and Icon Painting, combining technical precision with symbolic and emotional depth.
Linda has taught at Canterbury Christ Church University, exhibited widely, and served as President of the Society of Women Artists (SWA). Her work has won numerous awards, including the Great Art Award from the SWA. Today, her practice includes everything from fine glasswork to graphite drawing and sacred-inspired portraiture.
Recent Exhibition Highlights
Linda’s work has been exhibited extensively. Recent highlights include:
Icons for Hope and Faith – Westminster Abbey Undercroft (2025)
Wildlife Artist of the Year – David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation, Mall Galleries, London (2024)
Over a decade of exhibitions with the Society of Women Artists (SWA) – Mall Galleries, London
Kathryn Rennie & Linda Smith PPSWA – Chartham Vineyard Gallery, Kent (2025)
This current solo show – Natasha Pearl Gallery, Bekesbourne
What to Expect
Hand-painted glass icons
Ink, graphite, and gold leaf compositions
Figurative portraits that go beyond physical likeness to explore story and soul
Reflections on architecture, animal life, and sacred traditions
The chance to meet the artist in person at the opening soirée
All Welcome
The soirée and exhibition are free to attend, and no RSVP is required.
The gallery is just outside Canterbury at Chalkpit Farm in Bekesbourne, with free on-site parking.
Find Us
Natasha Pearl Gallery
Chalkpit Farm
Bekesbourne, Canterbury
CT4 5EU
Stay Connected
Follow @natashapearlgallery on Instagram for exhibition previews, behind-the-scenes updates, and more from Linda’s show.
The Space Between’ — A New Group Exhibition at The Horsebridge, Whitstable
Discover “The Space Between” — a group exhibition at The Horsebridge Arts Centre in Whitstable, featuring Natasha Pearl and other Kent artists
I’m excited to share that I’ll be exhibiting my work as part of The Space Between, a collective exhibition at The Horsebridge Arts Centre in Whitstable, running from 21st May to 2nd June 2025.
The Space Between explores the themes of time, place, and transformation through the diverse perspectives of nine contemporary artists. Together, we create a dynamic dialogue between materials, history, memory, and the unseen.
I’m honoured to be exhibiting alongside:
Pari Aazami, Jeanette Cook, Amelia Coward, GeGe Hirst, Zel Hunt, EJ Laven, Richard Poole, and Caroline Martin.
Each artist brings their own distinctive voice, weaving a fascinating and thought-provoking collection of artworks.
🖼️ Event Details:
📍 The Horsebridge Arts Centre, 11 Horsebridge Road, Whitstable, Kent CT5 1AF
📅 21st May – 2nd June 2025
🎟️ Free entry — open daily
This is a fantastic opportunity to experience contemporary art in Whitstable, discover local artists from Kent, and explore the beautiful seaside town of Whitstable.
Whether you’re a local art lover, visiting The Horsebridge Centre, or simply looking for things to do in Whitstable, we’d love to welcome you to the exhibition.
👉 Find out more about my work at the Natasha Pearl Gallery.