Bidding Opens for St Michael & All Angels' Advent Calendar
Auction of artwork 'opening doors for people in need'
Lot 7 - Three Wise Men by Sangeeta Weatherly
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December 27, 2025
Twenty-four original Christmas artworks by local artists are now open for bidding, as St Michael & All Angels Church launches its annual Advent Calendar art auction in support of its 2025 Christmas Charity Appeal.
This tradition, now more than two decades old, sees the church create an Advent Calendar featuring 24 specially commissioned paintings. The theme alternates each year between artwork by children in the church’s youth groups and pieces created by professional and semi‑professional artists from the local community.
This year’s calendar showcases work by local artists, including a watercolour of St Michael & All Angels, Spring by Francis Bowyer, a distinguished member of the renowned Bowyer family of artists. ChiswickW4.com once again sponsored one of the artworks.
Throughout December, a new painting was revealed each day as the church opened a window on the physical Advent Calendar displayed inside the building. At the same time, the corresponding window on the online calendar became available to view, allowing the wider community to follow the daily unveilings.
The Advent Calendar auction is themed this year as “opening doors for people in need.” Funds raised through the auction will support the church’s three chosen charities for 2025:
- The Upper Room, helping vulnerable people in west London
- Crosslight Chiswick, providing debt advice and financial education
- The McCabe Educational Trust, supporting disadvantaged communities overseas
The artworks will remain on display in the church throughout Advent and Christmas, before being auctioned online.
Bidding is now open and will run until 12 noon on Sunday 11 January 2026. The auction will conclude at a celebration in the church attended by the artists, where winning bidders will be able to collect their pieces.
Full details of the artworks and current bids can be viewed at: 32auctions.com.
Donations can also be made directly online, and collections from the church’s Nine Lessons & Carols service and Children’s Crib Service havealso contributed.
The paintings to be sold
Lot 1 – Three Angels and Ruins by John James
Lot 2 – Singing in the Ivy by Liz Butler
Lot 3 – Beneath the Surface 2023 by Marguerite Horner
Lot 4 - Alba Nivis
Lot 5 - Out of the Darkness
Lot 6 - St Michael & All Angels, Spring
Lot 4 – Alba Nivis by Claire Ireland
Lot 5 – Out of the Darkness by Martin Wharmby
Lot 6 – St Michael & All Angels, Spring by Francis Bowyer
Lot 7 - Three Wise Men by Sangeeta Weatherly
Lot 8 - Evensong by Oliver West
Lot 9 - Bethlehem BN2 (Wyndham Street) by George Fry
Lot 10 - Snow on Snow by Sara Gronmark
Lot 11 - Dawn by Wyn Borger
Lot 12 - If I were a Shepherd I would give a Lamb by Colin Brooke
Lot 13 – Mother and Child by Penelope Madde
Lot 14 – All is calm, all is bright by Jenny Sanderson
Lot 15 – A Shepherd of Beit Sahour by David Kiely
Lot 16 – Messenger by Caroline Whitehead
Lot 17 – Enigma by Ann Whitehead
Lot 18 – The leaves of the tree are for … by Mary West
Lot 19 – Carol Singers by Glinis Porter
Lot 20 – The Second Creation by Dai Miller
Lot 21 – Triptych for St Michaels by Jim Cox
Lot 22 – The Journey by Bridget Stevenson
Lot 23 – Christmas Eve, St Michael & All Angels by Nigel Woolner
Lot 24 – St Francis’ Crib by Miriam Morri
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