Cathy's Art Diary

Lovely art trail around East Sussex showing the work of local artists and crafts people in their studios. Sadly I didn’t have a lot of time the weekend I was there but did get to one in Isfield and a few in Kingston. My friend bought this sculpture from a wonderful stonemason, Tracy Steel, in Isfield and we saw lots of good landscape paintings of the Downs. Closes 17 September 2023  

Fun art festival Artwave   of work by artists and makers from Lewes, Seaford, Newhaven and surrounding villages. Although this festival was over three weekends we didn’t get a lot of time to go round so ended up concentrating on work around Uckfield, Isfield, Glynde and Firle. It is always good to pop into the forge at Glynde and I liked the new tables made with colourful tops made of recycled material and St John’s church in Piddinghoe had some interesting work again. We got a warm welcome at The Stitching Post and Friends and the attached photo is a sculpture by Rachael Nicholson there and I bought a small poppy trinket bowl by ceramist Liza Morton. I also enjoyed the variety of work at the Victoria Pavilion in Uckfield including lovely woodcuts by Adele Scantlebury. Closed 18 September 2022  

Fun art trail around East Sussex of open studios with artists showing and selling their work direct to the public. We mainly followed the rural trail of the villages around Lewes but also stayed onto some of the Newhaven trail when we got lost! We made a good start by heading to Litlington where there were four good venues around a brewery. One of the joys of trails liked this is seeing fascinating new places. I loved a Youth Hostel in the grounds of a wonderful Tudor house and a fabulous layered garden in South Heighton. Shout outs go to the wonderful paintings of Anne Magill and Susan Ashworth, the former did ethereal scenes of people and the latter beautiful, calm still lives. I loved Peter Cutherbertson’s utilitarian pottery in lovely colours. Shown here is a burnt word sculpture from Walter Bailey. His studio was open, and he was in a group show of sculpture at North Chailey. Closes 20 September 2020

Excellent art trail around East Sussex featuring work by artists and makers from Lewes, Seaford, Newhaven and surrounding villages in their own homes and workshops. I have to admit we only had an afternoon to do this so we focused on the area around Lewes starting by heading to Ringmer and a show featuring work by Dion Salvador Lloyd, an artist we know from open houses in Brighton. We got a lovely welcome from his partner who had organised the show and were delighted to be shown his studio at the house. As well as his lovely calm seascapes there were lovely ceramics and work by complimentary artists. From there we headed to Glynde and had a wander round this lovely estate village dropping in at three or four events. The highlight was the show at Glynde Place which mainly featured sculpture both in the coach house and the garden. I particularly liked the stone carving there including work by Paulien Gluckman, Alyosha Moeran and Will Spankie. Closed 1 September 2019