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Finding a Little Robot on Eel Pie Island

Yesterday morning I took the kids to Eel Pie Island. Not an easy thing to do, it's a private island on the Thames that the public can only visit for a couple of days every year. Maybe that's why William Hartnell lived there during his Doctor Who years. It's been a place for rock stars, a hippie commune and now a collection of artists studios. And this weekend they are holding open studios. So we popped along.

A thin footbridge from Twickenham leads to a collection of dwellings joined by thin paths, no roads, houses made of painted corrugated iron mixing with chrome gated blocks, and boatyards open onto the Thames doubling as art galleries today and tomorrow.

Which included, to my delighted surprise, Vicky Steane, showing off her tiny studio – the smallest on the island – and her upcoming third comic book volume of Little Robot Stories.

And plenty of work in mid-creation.

As well as her legendary piece London Travelcard Map made entirely from cut out tickets and travelcards.

And she's having a launch next Saturday on the mainland in Twickenham with a "Robot Winter Wonderland" all day at Windsor Hall.

Looks like we'll be coming back to Twickenham again… and if you are minded, the open day continues today as well.

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