Hi!
It’s a super busy November as both the nature themed and the heart portraits go on display across the world. I’ll be showing in the UK & India this month, my first time sharing artworks at Bengaluru Arts & Health Festival, India.
Where to see my work this November
It's a busy month. If you're near any of these, I'd love you to drop in.
13–21 November 2026, 10am–5pm, free entry
My portrait of Amie, So Far I've Died Twice, has been selected for The Discerning Eye 2026 at Mall Galleries. I'm so proud Amie's story will hang in London this month.
Exhibition details: https://www.mallgalleries.org.uk/exhibitions-events/discerning-eye-2026
The Fronteer Open 2026 — Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
24 November – 12 December, Fronteer Gallery, Orchard Square, Sheffield
And now I just wear one cycling brace... will be on show at The Fronteer Open 2026.
All Trees Are Political: Particularly at Christmas — Margate and London
A touring group show curated by Philippa Beale, featuring some of my tree fungus paintings.
Schwartzman Gallery, Margate: 24 November – Monday 7 December. Private view: 27 November, 6–8pm
Batsford Gallery, London: 11–20 December. Private view: Saturday 12 December, 2–5pm
Heart Heroes in Bengaluru, India
Bengaluru Arts & Health Festival, 28–29 November 2026
Heart Heroes is travelling to India. Portraits of Adrian (One Brace Down, Past Self) and Amie (Autumn Leaf, Twice Dead) will be part of the Bengaluru Arts & Health Festival, a city-wide celebration of arts and health.
It means a great deal to me that these survivors' stories are reaching new audiences, and in a festival that puts art and health side by side.
About the festival: https://bengaluruartsandhealthfestival.com/
Exhibition page: https://www.charliekirkham.com/exhibitions/51-bengaluru-arts-health-festival-city-wide-celebration-of-arts-health-in/overview/
The new Heart Heroes blog features Nicolas Desroches, a journalist from Mâcon in France who survived a cardiac arrest at 41 and now lives with a defibrillator under his skin. He tells that story in his book Coeur de titane. Water and swimming were such a big part of his story that the painting needed water, so the whole background became water, air and light.
Nicolas puts it beautifully:
"Painting is an art that allows us to see people who have survived cardiac arrest through a different lens — beyond the medical emergency, beyond the scars, and beyond the heart that stopped beating."
Read the blog: https://www.charliekirkham.com/blog/39-what-i-learned-painting-people-i-have-never-featuring-nicolas-desroches/
Thank you for being here
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Keep it Creative!
Charlie
Heart Heroes is supported using public funds from Arts Council England.