Winter 2024 Old

The artist Maggi Hambling

MAGGI HAMBLING: FROM THE SUBLIME TO THE HARMONIOUS

Release, 2024. Ink on Kozuke paper

UNEARTHING STORIES: imogen lycett green meets alexi marshall

Drawing the unspeakable at towner eastbourne

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Regular features in this issue

Detail from Katabasis, Alexi Marshall, 2023 Ink on Kozuke paper, 166 x 96cm

COVER ARTISTS

Imogen Lycett Green meets Alexi Marshall

Marylin Monroe promo shot for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes © Twentieth Century Fox

World of Colour

Royal Pavilion curator Alexandra Loske on the rush of gold

Leonard Cohen, 2023, oil on canvas, by Maggi Hambling

Artist interviews

Alex Leith meets Maggi Hambling

Edward Burra, Character drawings for the ballet Miracle in the Gorbals, 1944

PAGES FROM A SKETCHBOOK

“Macabre” was Edward Burra’s favourite word

MUSIC

Beyond Hope: Hugh Philpott meets Ty Jeffries

lives in art

Victor B Neuburg’s life after Alistar Crowley

Bateman's Garden in Burwash, formerly owned by Rudyard Kipling

art of the garden

Lulah Ellender visits Batemans’, formerly owned by Rudyard Kipling

Brighton Comedian Zoe Lyons

My Sussex

Brighton comedian Zoe Lyons

Detail of Lewes Town and Marshes from Southease by alej ez

AND DID THOSE FEET…

The Ouse: the ancient artery of East Sussex

James Gilray (1756 - 1815) A Peep at Christies - or - Tally Ho and His Minemy Pinemy Taking the Morning Lounge, 1795, hand-coloured etching and aquatint.

The Collector

What point is there to the art collector? Two books throw down the challenge

Female Figure Standing, Dora Carrington, 1913, oil on canvas, UCL art museum, currently on loan to Pallant House

DAVID JARMAN

On women artists

Henry Roberts - MBE and Director of the Brighton Library and Municipal Art Gallery

Meeting Mussonlini

Did Brighton’s Henry Roberts champion early French modernism or “artwash” early Italian Fascism?

Matilda Grover, basket maker

meet your maker

Matilda Grover’s basketmaking: Rescuing, Reviving Retaining

Detail from John Piper's stained glass windows at Firle

Art and about

John Piper’s stained glass window in Firle

Close up of the actor Kate Winslet from the film Lee

Reviews

Kate Winslet in Lee, and other Sussex-related publications and releases

Painting class at the Bell in Ticehurst

Stay Creative

Short creative courses in Sussex – The Bell in Ticehurst, Westdean College and Draw Brighton

Gallery Owner Candida Stevens

ASK THE EXPERT

Our art market correspondent talks to those in the know.

Chris Booth, The Marvellous Dream, 2024, ink on paper

SPEND IT ON ART

Visions of childhood, motherhood and the AI subconscious

Byproducts of the Sussex wine industry

Sussex Wine

Wine byproducts: Grape spirits, vinegars, grape jams, face oils and cooking oils.

Rare Joseph's coat marble

under the hammer

Victorian marbles, David Bailey photographs and ephemera from the Profumo Affair

A Sussex trug

endangered crafts

The Sussex trug has become a victim of its own success