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 & Wednesday: 8-8.30am & 4-7pm
Tuesday & Thursday: 4-7pm
Friday: 8-8.30am & 4-8pm
Weekends: 8am – 6pm
Sorry no dogs!
Maha Satish Exhibition March 2025
Welcome to Maha’s show ‘How it begins’
Maha is a London based artist. Keenly painting dogs for over a decade, her compositions are created using found reference images and extending these to complete the backgrounds and other anatomical details. She loves capturing the dogs in their most characteristic poses, and these are often not headshots or sitting poses.
Maha loves to use oil paints on cotton canvas for the malleability it offers. Each painting is crafted over months owing to the layers she uses to finish the effects in the image.
She is a keen reader and follows the lives and work of many women artists and writers. In this show she has included some of her sketches inspired by her love for MARY OLIVER’S beautiful poems called DOG SONGS. (The poems are for display only and not for sale.)
After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant and working as a bank consultant for what seemed like an endless number of years, Maha went back to college to study painting at Saint Martins UAL. (Largely self-taught, she has completed advanced painting courses with Roger Gill at the University.)
When asked why she paints so many dogs, Maha said “I find myself continuously challenging the idea of me and my work being seen as an ambassador of a certain section of the social hierarchy. It is part of my explorative journey as a painter into my identity, expression and delight to paint dogs. Much of these experiences and explorative thoughts have led me to paint themes that sometimes obscure my labels and expand into an otherwise less traversed world.”
Working for a sports publishing house designing book covers and illustrations for their publications, Maha is a resident artist at the Mansion Beckenham Place Park with a studio therein. She has exhibited in different shows across England and abroad. For more information on her work and progress please check her website https://www.smahaart.co.uk/contact
She is available for appointments for a studio visit and to discuss her work. Please contact her at smahaart@gmail.com
