BEAF

BEAF is an innovative, creative not-for-profit charity, who feel passionately that culture brings communities together.

Bournemouth Emerging Arts is an open-access, multi-art form festival and year round arts programme based on the south coast, uk. It acts as a platform for creatives and organisations to become part of a huge series of exciting events, packed into a diverse programme.

19/05/2026

After the success of ‘You’re Not Alone: Women in Art 2025’ BEAF are excited to announce an exhibition presenting the work of Yvonne Mabs Francis whose work was in the 2025 exhibition before she sadly passed away.

Breakdown at Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix gallery will be the first solo exhibition in London of the work of artist Yvonne Mabs Francis (1945 – 2025, Oxford, UK, lived and worked in Bicester, UK), featuring paintings from her Breakdown series alongside a body of related drawings.

‘Breakdown’ is curated by Carol Maund, Director BEAF, and is part of the London Gallery Weekend, 5-7 June 2026.
Exhibition Open: 5 June – 6 August 2026

https://gotbeaf.co.uk/news/yvonne-mabs-francis-exhibition-in-london/

Image – Yvonne Mabs Francis, The Impossibility of Being in the Brain of Someone Living, Circa 2010, oil on canvas.

23/04/2026

Thanks to everyone that came to LANDED last week. It is the first group exhibition by members of Haviland Studios in Boscombe.

LANDED is open Thursdays - Sundays, 11am - 6pm at Boscombe Arts Depot
17 April - 3 May 2026

Featuring work by: Light-1, Jeff Baggott, Eleanor Ball, Carmel De’Lisser, Sally Eyre, Shayna Fonseka, Emilie Giles, David Hall, Jeff Hunter, Frida Korang, Claudia Lilly, Ben Stewart and Times New Roadman

Stop by and see their work! Some artworks are available to buy and there is also a shop selling prints and smaller items.

15/04/2026

Artist Spotlight ⭐️
In the lead up to the exhibition LANDED by Haviland Studios opening 17 April at BAD, we will be introducing each artist and a little bit about their work. Our last artist to introduce before the exhibition preview this thursday 6-8pm is Light-1 👋

Light-1 tries to explore and channel the abstract and implicit nature of space and the natural world through the lens of the body, science, philosophy and consciousness

He also likes painting black squares and red dots….

👀 LANDED Opening Preview Thurs 16 April, 6 - 8 pm at BAD 👀
✂️ E-textile workshop with Emilie Giles from 6.30pm
🎧 DJ set from Frida Korang 7pm

LANDED Exhibition continues
17 April - 3 May 2026, open Thursdays - Sundays, 11am - 6pm

Image - Exhibition preview from Unseen at TOSH, with Light-1’s painting in the background.

13/04/2026

Artist Spotlight 👀
In the lead up to the exhibition LANDED by Haviland Studios opening 17 April at BAD, we will be introducing each artist and a little bit about their work. Next up is Claudia Lilly 😊

Recent BA Fine Art and MA Painting graduate and Postgraduate Prize Winner, Claudia is a multidisciplinary conceptual artist currently focusing on contemporary painting. She is originally from Cardiff, now based in Bournemouth with hopes to use art to support others. Her practice works to quietly address themes of complex trauma and instability, and the extreme difficulty of healing whilst trapped in a system that is hastily falling apart.

She has a growing interest in the narrative behind folds and creases in fabrics – and how they conceptually link to both literal and metaphorical concepts of comfort and discomfort, disturbance and truths that lie within the folds. Through this, she aims to document the story of her own personal journey, whilst continuing to advocate for others going through similar experiences.

See more of Claudia’s work at

09/04/2026

Artist Spotlight 👀
In the lead up to the exhibition LANDED by Haviland Studios opening 17 April at BAD, we will be introducing each artist and a little bit about their work. Next up is Frida Korang 👋🏾

Frida is an interdisciplinary artist, DJ and currently a Fine Arts student at Arts Bournemouth University, exploring identity, memory, and emotion through film photography, screen printing, and tactile materials like clay, wood, and metal which are rooted in her African heritage.

Born and raised in Italy, she cherishes memories and a sense of belonging. Through her experiences in some west African countries and western societies—she reflects on the complexity of everyday life, the weight of memory and the strength of underrepresented voices.

Guided by imagination and emotion rather than rigid plans, she create art that honours vulnerability, challenges norms, and embraces imperfection.
Her practice is a space for truth, transformation, and connection—where memory and material come together to tell stories that are often unseen but deeply felt.

See more of Frida’s work at and fridakorang.com

Image one - Frida in her studio. Images 2-3 recent works by Frida Korang

07/04/2026

Artist Spotlight 😁
In the lead up to the exhibition LANDED by Haviland Studios opening 17 April at BAD, we will be introducing each artist and a little bit about their work. Next up is Jeff Baggott 👋

Jeff Baggott is an Emeritus Professor of cinematics (Arts University Bournemouth) and a visual artist who works across a range of disciples (film, sculpture, painting). He is currently making paintings about recollected spaces and the everyday, glimpsed and rendered in a manner somewhere between realism and abstraction.

See more of Jeff’s work at

Image one - Jeff at exhibition preview. Image two - three oil on canvas (details) paintings by Jeff Baggott, Attic and Groundworks 1.

03/04/2026

Artist Spotlight 😁
In the lead up to the exhibition LANDED by Haviland Studios opening 17 April at BAD, we will be introducing each artist and a little bit about their work. Next up is Ben Stewart 👋

Ben is an internationally exhibited and award-winning contemporary artist working predominantly in collage and mixed media. His work plays with space, time, scale and form, often pointing to ideas around consciousness as the primary reality.

Visit benjcstewart.com to see more of Ben’s work.

Artworks by Ben Stewart. Image one - Navel Gazer (A View of the Mountain From Above) 2024 (detail). Image two - Astral Vacation, 2026. Image three - Theme Park (Superposition Land 2) 2025

02/04/2026

👀 Don’t forget to book your ticket for ‘Selling Art Today - working with Galleries, Clients, and Digital Platforms’ with Jackie Sarafopoulos, Owner & Director of Modern Contemporary Art Gallery.
Weds 8 April 6pm at TOSH

By the end of the talk we will have explored useful tips on how to sell your artwork and learnt more about:
🎨 The Art Market today
💸 Galleries and Pricing
💎 Understanding Contemporary Collectors
📸 Digital Platforms and Marketing your work

This talk is open to visual artists at any stage of their career, with a particular interest in selling your artwork or a curiosity to do so. There will be time for questions and discussions towards the end of the session.

Tickets - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/osc-selling-art-today-galleries-clients-and-digital-platforms-tickets-1984896574085?aff=odcleoeventsincollection

01/04/2026

Artist Spotlight 🫶🏾
In the lead up to the exhibition LANDED by Haviland Studios opening 17 April at BAD, we will be introducing each artist and a little bit about their work. Next up is Carmel De’Lisser 💖

Carmel De’Lisser is a self taught intuitive artist of mixed heritage. Her work is deeply rooted in symbolism and the journeys we take in transformation and awakenings. “I believe to bare your soul through a creative process is to breathe life into your own story.” Carmel

Working in “flow state” and using meditation and ritual as part of her practice each piece is direct response to time, place and emotional connection. Carmel is a multiform artist using words, pictures and sculpture to tell stories and explore her connection to the natural and spiritual world and the place it has in our modern lives.

Exhibiting with her collective (B.R.A.C: Boscombe Radical Arts Collective) Connected Grounds 2024, We Rise 2025. Solo work in Home 2025. �Immersive Installations: The Wilding, a forest of emotions 2025, The Wintering: 2025.

See more of Carmel’s work at .own.catharsis_

Image one - Carmel in her studio, photo by Ruth Virgo . Image two - Sculpture work, photo by Emilio Nunez me. Image three - Recent work, courtesy of Carmel De’Lisser.

30/03/2026

Artist Spotlight ⭐️
In the lead up to the exhibition LANDED by Haviland Studios opening 17 April at BAD, we will be introducing each artist and a little bit about their work. Next up is Sally Eyre 😊

Sally is an artist and illustrator whose work focuses on nature and the natural world, our connection to it and our disconnection from it. Her aim is to encourage people to spend more time in nature and to learn more about it for our own benefit and wellbeing and also so we have an awareness to protect it and care for it.

She recently finished studying an MA in Illustration with Falmouth University (online). She also runs art workshops at Hengistbury Head Visitor Centre once a month teaching people how to keep a nature journal.

See more of Sally’s work at .eyre

Image one - Sally in her studio, photo by Ruth Virgo . Images two and three photos courtesy of Sally Eyre.

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