Welcome to The Drawingroom
....home to emerging stars

I hope we have created a website that reflects some of the beauty and serenity of Francis Yard and my home, The Drawingroom. The aim with this site is not to offer an alternative to visiting the cafe and gallery but to expand and explain some of what goes on here, art, music, food.

There is a what's happening.. broken into several areas to keep you in touch with what is happening in and around The Drawingroom. If you have your own news, please feel free to e-mail me or simply drop into the gallery.

About The Drawingroom

The Drawingroom is, to my certain knowledge, the only Art Gallery in the UK to exclusively exhibit figurative, sensuous works, housing over 400 original works of Fineart.

The Drawingroom is housed in a 16th century building in Chesham, and is haunted by a kindly female presence; she has watched over this home for years. For a while some purring ghost cats rested on my bed, eight in total, but it seems they have now moved on. The building was initially constructed circa 1600 of oak, plaster and lath and has been added to in subsequent years. Some of the oak was probably from ship's timbers; this means some of the beams, are from trees now 1000 years old.

For a majority of it's history, the building was a peasant dwelling and ale house, with a stable at the East Street end. It is also thought to have been the home to Lewis Carrol's 'Mad Hatter' Roger Crab, the 'Mad Hatter' of Chesham. Over the last 30 years it has been an office and barber shop.

The Fineart exhibited includes sculpture in marble, Portland Stone,solid bronze and cold cast. The Paintings are in pastels, watercolours, oils, charcoal, some photography and pencil. I have selected the works from living Artists, who reside in the UK and who demonstrate their ability to capture and celebrate beauty through their use of light, form, composition and above all, skill.

The Drawingroom is also my home, whence it takes it's name; if you were here right now, you would be in my home, my sitting room, livingroom, My Drawingroom...and you'd be most welcome.