About Us

Canvas & Cream endeavours to:

We have social and environmental objectives as our core values and aim to provide a quality creative arts and social experience to our local community and beyond.

Our Aims:

Enable artists to build sustainable creative businesses by providing high quality, fit for purpose and affordable exhibition opportunities.

  • Provide promotional and networking opportunities to artists through regular networking activities and an online gallery.
  • Provide accessible arts activities for the local community to learn, celebrate and participate within the arts at affordable rates
  • Host artist’s, musicians and creatives events that endeavor to bring current artistic practice into the heart of the community.
  • Provide a South East London arts hub, a social dining experience embedded within a creative environment, connected through and in partnership with a growing number of arts venues along the South East London Overground Line.
  • Celebrate the innovative and creative use of everyday objects and ideas including the impact this has on social change, environmental concern and financial independence.
  • Provide a healing environment that nourishes the creative soul and builds lasting connections between people.
Canvas & Cream is a family run Social Enterprise. Joanna, Emily and Paul have got together with friends and family from their local neighborhood to develop this collaborative project.  It comprises of an artists-designed Up-Cycled Restaurant/ dining room and a dedicated Gallery/Project space with art workshop and creative events program.

We have seven artist/artisan studios at the rear adjoining Havelock Walk, which is an established studio/live/work street. We also have an alternative therapy room where various therapists offer a wide variety of therapies including Reiki, Massage, Osteopathy, Core Process, Laughing therapy, Acupuncture etc.  We combine, health, wellbeing, arts innovation and a unique social experience all under one roof.

The construction of Canvas & Cream has been a vast DIY public art project, we are using UpCycled and recycled materials where possible, some have been sourced from skips and demolition sites and others generously donated by our growing list of supporters. Much of our décor has a story to tell of its journey to be here, you will find this written, sometimes hiding somewhere near to it.