art trails & open studios

author of Blue Spaces: How and Why Water Can Make You Feel Better, will be discussing her research experience in the areas of wellbeing and blue spaces.

Seaweed: The Breath of Life is another all day and evening event. Seaweed is extraordinarily beautiful, profoundly interesting and important, and so few people know this. Not only does 70% of the oxygen we breathe come from seaweed, this ocean flora is an element in food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, science, industrial products, as well as being a dazzling natural art form with exquisite colour and extraordinary forms.

The shop sells a variety of cards, prints and smaller artworks while refreshments are available from the courtyard coffee and food van.

Thethird annual Celebrate Cuckmere Haven

Artwave exhibition is once again being held at one of England's most beautiful venues, South Hill Barn, Seaford, from 2nd to 17th September.

The over 420 submissions showed an intriguing variety of interpretations of this year’s theme, ‘Wide Blue Spaces’. (Exposure to water in all its forms, known as Blue Spaces, has been shown to improve our happiness and our health, both mental and physical.)

It was a challenge to narrow down such a wonderful collection to under 100 works which include not just paintings and sculpture but photographs, jewellery, ceramics, textiles and furniture. It must be one of Art Wave's largest and most diverse exhibitions. The exhibition benefits from the thousands of visitors to this iconic location.

Demonstrations, workshops and evening events are held throughout September. Dr. Catherine Kelly, www.celebratecuckmerehaven.co.uk.

The show is run entirely by volunteers and all the profit goes to the charity www.cuckmerehavensos.org, to help preserve this very special seascape.

See the website for further details and queries.

Vee Pease in Hampshire Open Studios

19th to 28th August

West Sussex jeweller Vee Pease will be taking part in Hampshire Open Studios with her painter mother, Ferelith Molteno. The artists will be exhibiting their work at North End Studios, Broughton, SO20 8AN, in the Romsey/Stockbridge area.

Ferelith Molteno has travelled extensively in India, drawing and painting the landscape, buildings and people wherever she goes. She paints predominantly in watercolour, using collage and pen and ink. Ferelith also produces handmade cards, often with an Indian theme, but also British scenes and still life.

Vee makes sterling silver jewellery with semi precious stones. She is inspired by the nature and changing seasons of the South Downs, where she walks