Local, Fresh and Sustainable
Copper Beech Café (CBC), situated directly next to JAGS Sports Club, is the perfect oasis to enjoy homemade food, great coffee and locally sourced products. Modern in design, the café hosts monthly exhibitions from local artists and multiple workshops for adults and kids.
The landscaped area outside is surrounded by plants and dotted with picnic benches, which surround the integral copper beech tree. Copper Beech Café is committed to recycling and all packaging is compostable and sustainable, including our bioplastic containers and straws. For further information regarding exhibitions, private hire and workshops, please visit our website.
Café opening hours are as follows:
Monday-Friday: 4-7pm
Saturday: 8am-6pm
Sunday: 8am-5pm
No dogs, smoking or vaping.
Sally Rendel and Trilby Jones
rilby Jones is a Brixton based sculptor who grew up in the countryside to a family steeped in conservation and nature, always making things and getting muddy. Her love of birds came as a child sitting under hedgerows and wandering through woods with her father and sister, recording wildlife sounds, particularly birds. Every walk was an opportunity to learn a song, not yet remembered. A love of form and movement came out of these early years.
After studying sculpture and working with children as an art facilitator, primarily running workshops, after school classes and doing large papier-maché projects, she has turned her hand to making her own work bringing these interests together.
She has created a collection of birds that represent the joy and freedom she felt by watching them and captures their lightness of being. The intended result is a joyful calmness and harmony brought from the outside to the inside.
Sally Rendel is an illustrator, garden designer and architect based in Peckham. In this exhibition she celebrates the birdlife that frequents the JAGS site around the Copper Beech Café. For over three years birder Dave Clark has carried out monthly bird surveys at JAGS as part of the project Sally is managing to rejuvenate the historic Botany Gardens and boost biodiversity. Through this monthly practice her eyes have been opened not just to the breadth of avian life but to a deeper understanding of the characteristics of the bird species routinely seen, their colour, their song and the habitats and food they need for survival.
This mixed body of work is made up of sketches in pencil and ink, fleeting impressions of birds that regularly visit our gardens, alongside more intricate pieces exploring their physicality and mapping the food that they forage.
