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 – Thursday: 4-7pm
Friday: 4-8pm
Saturday: 8am-6pm
Sunday: 8am-3pm
No dogs, smoking or vaping.
Ray Betts, March 2026
Ray Betts is a local graphic designer and photographer whose work explores landscapes through the unseen world of infrared light. Invisible to the human eye, infrared (IR) light reveals a striking alternative reality when captured with specially adapted cameras—transforming familiar scenes into surreal, high-contrast, dreamlike visions where foliage glows white and skies deepen into velvety black. Infrared photography heightens mood and texture, lending particular power to landscapes and architectural forms.
With many years of professional graphic design experience in both the UK and the US, Ray’s visual sensibility is rooted in a strong understanding of composition and tone. His interest in photography began while studying at art college in Kent and has since evolved alongside his career in design. The works presented at the Copper Beech Café have been selected from travels abroad as well as local sights in Dulwich—each image offering a re-imagined perspective on place, light, and atmosphere.
