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.
Marie Lenclos and Martin Grover Exhibition
Marie Lenclos and Martin Grover are two local artists proud to present an exhibition where trees are the main characters. The show opens on 1st November and runs until 29th November 26.
You are cordially invited to our Opening Party on Wednesday 11h November at 7:30-9:30pm.
Marie Lenclos has been painting the same group of trees from life in her father’s attic studio in Brittany for at least ten years. She sits by the open window and tries to capture the landscape in front of her, drawing with her brush. Season after season, year after year, this series develops alongside her urban practice, offering a welcome departure from straight lines. A purely creative exercise, her tree paintings seek to translate nature through a graphic language of shapes and colour.
Trees and arboreal concerns have often been an inspiration for Martin Grover’s work, either as a central element or serving as a backdrop, to elevate and enhance a drama or an object. His ongoing series is inspired by the plaintive tree stumps that punctuate Brockwell Park. The works are odes to these once majestic trees that have been reduced to melancholic relics; petrified shadows of their former selves, ruined and exposed. And yet they still seem to possess an innate majesty and power, looming like sentinels or wounded guardian angels.
