• ‘Still and Life and Art’ – The Philpots

    Oxmarket Contemporary St. Andrew’s Court off East Street, Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom

    The Wilson Gallery will welcome The Philpots, three artists from the same family, bringing together very different styles of work. Ellie Philpot loves to create unique contemporary pieces that bring statement, perspectives and colour into a space. She loves to use the everyday things around her as her subjects and strives to include narrative in […]

  • GEOFF HANDS: In The Garden

    19a 19a Hollingdean Terrace, Brighton, United Kingdom

    Announcing his second show at Gallery 19a (formerly Coachwerks), Brighton based painter Geoff Hands presents a selection from a group of works that started during the first period of lockdown in 2020 and continues to this day. In the relative safety of his Phoenix Art Space studio, many of the Sussex landscape and Welsh garden […]

  • Dorothy Hepworth and Patricia Preece: An Untold Story

    Charleston Lewes Southover Road, Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom

    Bloomsbury fringe member Patricia Preece was the wife of Stanley Spencer, and a much lauded mid-century painter in her own right. Or was she? Her marriage to Spencer was never consummated, and there is intriguing evidence that most, if not all, of her exhibited work was painted by her long-term lover Dorothy Hepworth.  

  • The Rivers Melt

    Farleys House & Gallery Muddles Green, Chiddingly, East Sussex, United Kingdom

    Coming to Farley’s House and Gallery in April is ‘The Rivers Melt’, a collection of works by photographer Hanna-Katrina Jędrosz. Exploring nature, history, political ideology and environmentalism, the exhibition takes its viewer on ‘a journey along the European Green Belt and the Iron Curtain borderlands’. Covering a wide expanse of land which once divided the […]

  • Graham Dean: Hidden Places

    Cameron Contemporary Art 1 Victoria Grove, 2nd Avenue, Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom

    Cameron Contemporary, down the road from their usual premises, give a solo show to the Liverpudlian painter, 30 years a Brighton resident. Dean uses a unique collage-related technique he calls ‘reverse archaeology’, building up his works using layers of watercolour images. 

  • Lou Bristow & Coco Crampton: Plans for Living

    Weald Contemporary The Mill Studio, New House Farm Barns, Ford Lane, Arundel, West Sussex, United Kingdom

    This young gallery is fast developing a reputation for showing outstanding contemporary painting. It sells affordable pieces by ‘artists to watch’ in its online shop, too. We’re particularly looking forward to Lou Bristow’s architectural still lifes, but do peruse its forthcoming exhibitions, showcasing the likes of John Harmer, at wealdcontemporary.co.uk

  • Bloomin’ Brilliant: The Life and Work of Raymond Briggs

    Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft Lodge Hill Lane, Ditchling, East Sussex, United Kingdom

    Over 60 original artworks by the late (and much lamented) artist/author (from titles such as The Snowman, Fungus the Bogeyman and The Iron Lady and the Tinpot Duke) as well as personal artefacts from his home, a mile down the road in Westmeston.

  • Artists Open Houses May Festival

    Spend a weekend soaking up both the sunshine and some incredible local art this May, as the Artists Open Houses festival returns once more to Brighton, Hove and the surrounding area. Last year’s festival saw almost 200 artists’ homes and studios open up for public viewing and this year promises to be just as extensive. […]

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  • The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain

    Pallant House Gallery 8-9 North Pallant, Chichester, West Sussex

    Remarkably, Pallant House’s publicity department declare this to be the ‘first major exhibition to explore British still life’. Artists exhibited include (draw a deep breath): Hurvin Anderson, Vanessa Bell, Edward Burra, Patrick Caulfield, Lucian Freud, Gluck, Duncan Grant, Richard Hamilton, Mona Hatoum, David Hockney, Lee Miller, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, William Nicholson, Eric Ravilious, Anwar Jalal Shemza, William Scott, Walter Sickert, Stanley […]

  • South Stoke Idyll – an exhibition in a Sussex barn

    South Stoke Barn South Stoke Barn, Arundel, West Sussex, United Kingdom

    The mainstay of this five-day art extravaganza is an exhibition of the paintings of the Bodimede brothers Matt and Nick, who were brought up in this beautiful area, where the Arun flows though a valley cutting through the South Downs. There will also be site-related abstract work by Emma Rimer and a video, Feed, created […]

  • Sarah Money – An Exhibition of My Paintings and Sculptures, 2022 – 2024

    Star Brewery Gallery Castle Ditch Lane, Lewes

    A new body of work - paintings and sculpture - created over the last two years by Sussex artist Sarah Money. Sarah Money’s work is constantly evolving. A former dancer and mime artist, Sarah Money’s sculptures and paintings are filled with a fluid rhythm, as she explores the movement of the human form. Her work brings in […]

  • Sarah Money: An Exhibition of Paintings and Sculptures 2022 – 2024

    Star Brewery Gallery Castle Ditch Lane, Lewes

    A new body of work – paintings and sculpture – created over the last two years by Sussex artist Sarah Money. Sarah Money’s work is constantly evolving. A former dancer and mime artist, Sarah Money’s sculptures and paintings are filled with a fluid rhythm, as she explores the movement of the human form. Her work brings in […]