Join us for an afternoon of viewing art in the Bow area of east London followed by Cava and cake at the house and studio of Alice Sielle.

Our tour – which involves some walking but can also be done on a bus if you need – will begin at 2pm at Mile End Tube station (Central, Circle, District and Hammersmith and City lines).

From there we’ll visit St Benet’s Chaplaincy at QMUL (7 mins walk). Here you find the extraordinary sgraffito murals by Adam Kossowski depicting John’s Revelation. The small round building was designed by Robert Maguire and Keith Murray who, more famously, designed St Paul’s Bow Common … the site of our next visit (a 15 min walk or bus journey). 

As well as appreciating this wonderful place of worship, voted best Modern church in 2013, we’ll enjoy the mural cycle of the Heavenly Host by Charles Luytens made over a 5-year period from Venetian mosaic tesserae.

To end the afternoon, the artist Alice Sielle has generously offered to host us for Cava (or tea) and cake at her home in Tredegar Square (another 15 mins walk but close to Mile End Tube). Alice also has her studio in her home and regularly displays her work within it. In 2004 Alice created lino print Stations of the Cross for the nearby St Barnabas in Bethnal Green. Alice will have copies of the book version available to view at her home.