If you’ve ever gazed in awe at the sight of the English Channel from the South Downs, take yourself to Laura Callaghan’s exhibition ‘Water’s Edge’, showing at The Grange in Rottingdean. On display is an extensive collection of textured mixed media seascapes which beautifully capture the sea’s many hues, states and temperaments. Laura’s deep connection […]
You are invited to a Poetry Reading with Liz Barnes on Thursday 8th February and Wednesday 14th February from 2.30pm. Liz Barnes, a guest of Tea, Coffee and Tequila will be in the John Rank Gallery on Thursday 8th February and Wednesday 14th February to read from her two published collections of poetry. Liz says ' I […]
Mathieu is a Haitian abstract painter and sculptor, trained in Canada, who likens the hidden-from-view trauma he still suffers after a motorcycle accident to the lingering shadow of the Duvalier regime in his native country. Until March 31, this show is accompanied by the film Nests of Basalt, by Berlin-based artist Clara Jo.
Oscar Romp originally trained at The Royal College of Art and specialised in Fine Art Printmaking. For the last 35 years his focus has been on figurative drawing and painting. Oscar draws ‘live on site’, ‘in real time’, to capture the atmosphere and energy of the event time or place. Oscar’s artworks are often conceived […]
Terra Firma is an exhibition which demonstrates how two artists, Maureen Brigden and Sylvia Kopeček, have recently developed their art alongside each other, sharing ideas but working with very different materials. The majority of their work has been created during the last few months of 2023 and early 2024. It is fresh, new and a […]
We're loving this still life with ROSA Magazine by Sarah Jane Moon! There's Mary Beard and Margaret Atwood sitting on top of Geraldine Swayne (ROSA #6)! Moon has a show - 'A Room of Their Own' - at the marvellous WIA Gallery in Lewes. Known for her colourful portraits, in this exhibition she explores a […]
An array of contemporary abstract painters – including Charlotte Winifred Guerard and Matthew Burrows – explore the possibilities of works on paper, from preparatory studies to finished paintings. Study a range of mark making and explore space, colour, line and edge at phoenixartspace.org
"I’ve always enjoyed walking in the countryside," says Gary Goodman, "embracing and acknowledging the magic of the season, the varying moods of the weather. In the past year, being in love and sharing these experiences, welcoming the spirits and feeling the mystic psychic sensations of these natural wonders, have fired me, and inspired me to make […]
Sussex-based Katharine Swailes and Caron Penney, master-weaver colleagues at the West Dean Tapestry Studio for 20 years, both use the technique of hand-woven tapestry to portray their different and varied techniques. The show is curated by Louise Weller, formerly of Pallant House Gallery.
Samuel studied Fine Art at the University of Chichester and now works in the area as an art instructor for adults with learning disabilities. Samuel describes himself as a mixed media artist and represents the human form in his work, but toys with scale and proportions, he never looks for a true or perfect figure. […]
Mary gained her BA in Fine Art in the late 1960s at the Art Department of the University of Newcastle, sharing a studio with the now world-famous painter, Sean Scully. Mary’s work is joyful, happy, exuberant and colourful semi-abstract expressionism, containing themes of birds and moons, rich foliage, patterns and images from life experiences, emotions, […]
‘I took my items – a pair of fully fashioned stockings, knitted pieces, and later a string vest – to the printers and put them directly onto the plates.’ The resulting prints by artist and weaver Ann Sutton have rarely been seen since she stored them away over 50 years ago. See them (and buy […]
