We are excited to open our gates for our Summer Open Studios 2026, the most anticipated event of the year. As the days grow longer and the sun floods into the studio, we invite you to experience the space and to see how Frank works in it each day.
A rare opportunity to see paintings that have not been on public display, browse archival material, and to see work in progress that Frank will have been working on only hours before. We will also be running a children's workshop with paint and materials provided on Saturday and Sunday from 12–5pm.
Join us and other studios for a vibrant weekend of art, hands-on workshops, live music, great food and more.
Location: Peacock Yard, SE17 3LH
Opening hours: Fri 5th: 6:30–9:30pm, Sat 6th & Sun 7th: 11am–6pm
Admission: Free
Frank Bowling has held a studio at Peacock Yard since 1984, where he has produced many of his immersive paintings — often of monumental scale — in a space of no more than 40 square metres. Peacock Yard is part of the Pullens Estate, which was built by local builder James Pullen and Son of 73 Penton Place between 1870 and 1901. Originally comprising 650 flats surrounding four separate yards of workplaces, 360 flats and three yards remain today. Each yard was purpose-built with craftspeople and small traders in mind and represents an original Victorian example of live/work space. Originally, each ground or first-floor workshop opened into one of the two flats situated behind it. It once contained dozens of workshops for blacksmiths, carpenters, joiners, tanners, printers and wheelwrights. Today it continues to be a thriving community of creatives.
Wondering how to get here? Plan your visit to Peacock Yard, London.
Open Studios 2026.
Photograph of Frank Bowling in front of his paintings at his studio at Peacock Yard in 1995 taken by Sean Cunningham. Photo: Sean Cunningham © Sean Cunningham. Courtesy Frank Bowling Archive.