ingénu/e magazine, issue 25, Summer 2019

ingĂŠnu/e creative talent revealed

A Feast of Festivals

a multitude of festivals and musings on their origins summer open studios plus

galleries & exhibitions music, theatre & dance book reviews creative courses & workshops

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ingénu/e creative talent revealed

contents Spotlight on... Festivals Visual Arts Contemporary Crafts Seasonal: Open Studios Performing Arts Poetry, Prose & Illustration Creative courses & workshops Creative Lifestyle Coda

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who’s who & what’s what editor Gill Kaye editor@ingenuemagazine.co.uk

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Pianist Dinara Klinton who performs at the Deal Festival of Music and Arts this year.

Photograph by Benjamin Ealovega

"if it's not in ingénu/e ...it's not happening!"

prelude Hello dear readers! And welcome to... drumroll please... our 25th issue of ingénue magazine!

The last 24 issues have passed by in a welter of sumptuous creativity and it just gets better. There are so many fabulously creative individuals out there, space and time prevent us from mentioning them all, but suffice to say our lives are made richer by their endeavours. So here's to the next 25!

There's always so much to do in summer. It feels as though it should be a leisurely season but in reality the pace is gloriously full-on. The TV churns out a plethora of sporting events – Wimbledon, the Rugby World Cup, the Women's World Cup, the Tiddlywinks World Cup. [don't be silly –Sub Ed] The smell of barbecues reminds me of social events I should be attending, or creating, and in the suburbs there's the ubiquitous summer sound of hopeful ice cream vans on their rounds and the cheerful din of children playing out.

Then there's the garden. The garden is a great help to me in the creative process. And if I'm reading a review book or writing an article there's nothing I like more than taking myself off to a sunny spot in the garden with a cuppa. Lately, however, it's been more of a distraction than a help. With such a wet, warm season the garden has quite overtaken me and I spend my time making mental, and rather futile, lists of what needs doing. Having already broken two mowers on our unruly grass (I can't really call it a lawn) and the strimmer threatening to go the same way, I'm now looking at a rather fine meadow; beautiful flowering grasses wafting gently in the breeze and a host of butterflies dancing. Ah well, a meadow is a lovely thing too – who needs a bowling green lawn with all its prim edges and sterile air. Give me a bit of wildlife any day! (murder on the hay fever though) And of course this is the time when art trails, sculpture trails and open studio events are in full swing across the region and festivals truly come into their own. Whether the festival is a stroll down to your local village green, or a tightly planned excursion with friends, picnic baskets or an overnight bag, it's a glorious liberation from the everyday routine. And there's something particularly satisfying about heading out on a previously untrodden route, art trail guide in hand, to discover artists' work on display in their studio.

These are the times when we discover just how much talent there is, often right under our noses.

Such a great way to see and experience a host of art and music events, plus all the other creative activities, and with very little effort. And it's an invaluable way for the creative individual to reach an appreciative and discerning public. You never know when you'll find that piece of jewellery or discover a painter, woodturner, ceramicist, even author – any artist in fact – whose work you love and want to collect; or a musician or band whose music just begs to be on your playlist.

It's all out there... –Gill Kaye, editor

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a Feast of Festivals A Feast Of Festivals, Near And Far. As usual we feature a plethora of festivals of many genres, local or easily reachable. 2019 is not only the 50th anniversary of the first Moon landing, celebrated this summer at the Observatory Science Centre Herstmonceux, but also the 50th anniversary of two events that arguably gave birth to the festival phenomena; Woodstock in the USA and the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival. In Coda, on page 80, we reflect on these two festivals and their anniversary events.

It is an all-day family-friendly festival and will feature Dylancentric, a talent-packed band assembled for this event by Ashley Hutchings MBE, founder member of Fairport Convention and lauded by Dylan

All Wight Now presents Million Dollar Bash, 31st August

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ou will read more about the legendary 1969 IoW music festival in this issue's Coda. Million Dollar Bash is a one-day festival on the Isle of Wight to honour the Golden Anniversary of that festival, when 150,000 people saw Bob Dylan rock the Island!

Saturday, 31st August at the IoW County Showground, Near Cowes, sees a star-packed bill perform – which includes many 1969 IoW veterans.

Fifty years ago, Bob Dylan stunned the world by turning his back on the Woodstock Festival and agreeing to play at the 2nd Isle of Wight Festival of Music instead. Million Dollar Bash is the latest celebration organised by All Wight Now, the group dedicated to honouring the original 1968-69-70 festivals. All Wight Now’s founding chairman Andy Knight sums up the aims of AWN succinctly: “It’s about the music, the memories and the legacy”.

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spotlight on... a feast of festivals himself as “the single most important figure in English folk music”. They will honour Dylan’s music and are joined by an impressive roster of rock, folk and poetry talent.

Also in Coda you can see what sculptor Guy Portelli is creating as a tribute to these festivals and a new book ‘Bob Dylan at the Isle of Wight, 1969’, illustrated with many historic photographs from the event, is now published by Medina Publishing.

Visit www.allwightnow.com for all the information and how to book tickets.

Hailsham Festival

6th to 22nd September

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his annual festival showcases art, music, theatre, cinema, literature and dance, accompanied by good food and drink. It also incorporates Hailsham Art Trail, a diverse and rich showcase for local artistic talent and skill, with exhibition spaces across the town. The festival has many events including poetry and short story competitions for children and adults.

As an example of a day at the festival, on 14th September events kick off with the Town Centre Open Morning with the Long Man Morris Men and Milton Hide performing alongside the regular Saturday Hailsham Market. After lunch there is the free annual Mayor’s Concert at Hailsham Parish Church. An introduction by the town’s Mayor will be followed by performances from Hailsham Choral Society, Roger Tipping, the Parish Church organist and professional soprano, Abbie Marsden.

While all this is occurring Hailsham Horticultural Society will be holding their late Summer Show at Summerheath Hall and there will be crafts and face painting for children as well as juggling, unicycling, stilt walking and plate spinning, all being demonstrated by local children who have been learning circus skills throughout the week. When at the festival, pop into the Festival Information Centre, view the artwork on the walls and pick up your free festival programme. Visit hailshamfestival.uk for further info.

Shipley Arts Festival – a programme of

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hipley Arts Festival presents another exciting and eclectic programme of concerts that unite The Arts, Heritage and Sussex Communities at some of the county’s most beautiful venues. Now in its nineteenth year, this unique festival is renowned for presenting world-class works and performances by leading international musicians and composers as well as supporting young talent.

As the festival continues, together with Andrew Bernardi, his Stradivarius Piano Trio and other leading musicians, there are more opportunities this summer and autum to enjoy classical music in unique Sussex settings including: the world’s leading baroque trumpeter, Crispian Steele-Perkins; La Boheme by Opera Holloway; organ virtuoso D’Arcy Trinkwon and our resident Bernardi Music Group.

This year the festival is also proud to present two special events by young musicians including Malcolm Singer’s Dragons, which features a massed choir from five Sussex schools performing alongside the prestigious Yehudi Menuhin School and String Academy.

Shipley Arts Festival is gratefully supported by Toovey’s, Kreston Reeves, NFU Mutual, Nyetimber, Rossana and Wakefields, together with over twenty Sussex communities that come together to be elevated through music from the roots of Sussex.

Visit www.shipleyfestival.co.uk and for booking visit www.thecapitolhorsham.com or call 01403 741685. pictured clockwise from top left: Guy Portelli, IoW 1968/69 mosaic in progress; Maria Marchant, appearing at Shipley Festival (photo by Steven Peskett); Milton Hide, appearing at Hailsham Festival (photo ©Elizabeth Doak); Folk icon Richard Thompson performs at Million Dollar Bash

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spotlight on... a feast of festivals Broadstairs Folk Week 11th to 18th August

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usic, sea and sun in the ‘Garden of England’; folk music set against the background of the sparkling sea! Festival tickets include all events at Folk Week – including the main concerts in the concert marquee in the town’s leafy Pierremont Park and also various dances, concerts, workshops and intimate gigs.

There are no less than 90 performances over the festival week. Many folk and acoustic performers from varied backgrounds and styles will be playing, examples being the Poozies, Breaking Tradition Dance Company, Granny’s Attic, Jon Boden & the Remnant Kings, Megson and many more talented artists. The website lists all the daily performers, and each day is bound to feature music not to be missed.

Visit www.broadstairsfolkweek.org.uk for all the information you need.

notice of headliners shows some notable speakers such as John Humphrys, Simon Armitage, Stanley Johnson, Polly Toynbee, Lynne Truss and Simon Bret. Visit www. shorehamwordfest.com for full up to date information.

Shaping the Future

Shoreham Wordfest 2019

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his year Shoreham’s annual autumn festival will have the theme of Shaping the Future.

There will be creative writing workshops throughout September and the main events will run between 27th September and 13th October. The full programme will be launched in July, but early

Deal Music and Arts Festival 28th June to 13th July

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he Town of Deal will be given a welcome boost when Deal Music and Arts present their ambitious programme of top quality entertainment this summer. A highlight of the town’s social calendar, this year’s festival includes popular free outside concerts as well as unique opportunities to get 'up-close and personal' with an impressive array of international and rising stars.

One of the highlights will be Keyboard Evolution, followed by 21st Century Hyper-Bach on synthesizers with Art of Moog. Dinara Klinton, winner of innumerable international prizes, is performing along with an array of artists including the Ora Singers, arguably the world’s leading chamber choir and brainchild of its director Suzi Digby OBE. Visit www.dealmusicandarts.com for full details.

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South Downs Folk Festival

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ow in its third year, Hastings Early Music Festival returns from 17th to 20th October, bringing international performers to Hastings for concerts and workshops at St Mary in the Castle, Kino Teatr and Hastings Contemporary (formerly Jerwood Gallery).

This year features the renowned vocal ensemble I Fagiolini who will be performing their new immersive concert ‘Leonardo Shaping the Invisible’, celebrating the artist on the 500th anniversary of his death. Introduced by Leonardo expert Professor Martin Kemp, the critically acclaimed programme matches projections of Da Vinci’s iconic art with vocal masterworks.

Opening the festival will be an evening of baroque concertos performed in a ‘Concert by Candlelight’.

Festival artistic director Jane Gordon will lead the Festival Ensemble in a scintillating programme of Bach, Vivaldi and Telemann featuring solo, double, triple and quadruple concertos performed by international period instrument specialists. During the festival a chamber music concert will be given by BBC New Generation Artists the Consone Quartet.

Their programme includes quartets by Haydn, Schubert and Schumann.

A choral workshop given by Robert Hollingworth (I Fagiolini director), instrumental workshop by violinist Jane Gordon, open rehearsals and opportunities to meet the artists complete the line up from a festival recognised for its original and dynamic programming featuring high calibre artists.

Visit www.hemf.co.uk for further information.

he 2019 line-up for 7th South Downs Folk Festival is probably one of the best ever; featuring the brilliant folkrock legends Lindisfarne, the hugely popular Oysterband, BBC folk multi-award winners The Young 'Uns, with a very special and unique whole evening show, plus the highly entertaining 3 Daft Monkeys and the sensational Blair Dunlop. All these concerts take place at Bognor’s Alexandra Theatre.

There will also be some great support acts including high-energy The Jigantics, superb duo Red Shoes, acclaimed band Palmerston and USA troubadours Friction Farm, along with rising stars such as Megan Linford, Annie Dressner and many more.

The festival will also incorporate the second eagerly awaited South Downs Ukulele Festival, the very popular Big Seaside Sing, an expanded dance programme, food and craft markets, the Sussex Young Folk Competition, the Real Ale Festival plus excellent workshops and children’s entertainment.

Visit southdownsfolkfest.co.uk for full details.

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spotlight on... a feast of festivals Tenterden Folk Festival

3rd to 6th October

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t looks as though the ‘sold out’ signs are going to be going up all over Petworth this summer. Having enjoyed a record breaking 40th anniversary in 2018, every indication is that ‘the Petworth bar’ continues to rise. Petworth Festival organisers are reporting huge interest in events that run from 16th July to 3rd August, with festival Artistic Director Stewart Collins telling ingénue that he is “particularly pleased with the fact that there is interest right across the board whether for the jazz, classical, world music, comedy or theatre shows lined up over the festival fortnight.”

At the time of writing limited tickets are still available for a number of shows including the festival’s trio of consecutive nights in Petworth House’s atmospheric Stable Yard, where blues star Georgie Fame is followed by comedian Julian Clary, and the ever-popular Jazz in the Stables night, which this year features three bands including the high-energy Ray Gelato and the Giants. But the Director is also keen to point out the family and community events that are a major feature of this year’s festival.

“Do I believe there is something for everybody? That’s genuinely a yes!”

Visit www.petworthfestival.org.uk for further information, book online or call the Box Office on 01798 344576 (open Tuesday to Saturday 10.00-1.00).

his year’s Tenterden Folk Festival offers four days of folk song, music, dance, crafts and traditions. We are pleased to announce that, thanks to grant funding from Kent Community Foundation and The Overstone Trust, the Festival will also be organising and running a series of workshops on folk song, music, dance and traditional storytelling.

Performers making their first appearance will include six piece a cappella group Broomdasher, Dan MacKinnon from Canada, the young ceilidh band Foot Down, Peter and Barbara Snape visiting from the North West, Portsmouth Shantymen, singer songwriter Stan Graham from York and award winning duo Will Pound and Eddy Jay. We are also pleased to welcome back Andy Turner, Bob and Gill Berry, Dick Miles, Keith Kendrick and Sylvia Needham, Mike Wilson and Damien Barber, Nick Dow, Notts Alliance, Paul and Liz Davenport, Pete Castle and Tom Lewis as well as our local and regular guests.

Performers playing on the free music stage on the Recreation Ground will include Ashford Folk, Broomdasher, Discovery (Jeff & Elaine Gillett), Open Water, Rattlebag and the Stone Cherries while Direction Corsiars from Belgium will be busking in the street and United Folk Orchestra will be playing in St Mildred's Church.

Hundreds of Morris dancers, Appalachian dancers, European dancers and street entertainers and will also be thronging the streets and there will be a craft fair, folk sales and street stalls on the Recreation Ground and in the High Street. www.tenterdenfolkfestival.org.uk

pictured top: Kabantu, performing at Petworth Festival, (photo by Alex Moldovan Street); right: Broomdasher, performing at Tenterden Folk Festival

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spotlight on... a feast of festivals held during the North London Festival in May. This year the winner was Claudia Lamanna from Italy, the runnerup was Mared PughEvans from Wales.

They are both looking forward to playing at Harp on Wight.

For full details of the festival please go to www.harponwight.co.uk or phone 01983 730930 for further information.

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here will be a strong Celtic influence at this year’s Harp on Wight International. Irish traditional music will be featured for the first time in the annual event's six-year history. Grainne Hambly from County Mayo – an internationally recognised exponent and teacher of the Irish harp – will be appearing at the festival, while also making her first visit to the festival to perform and teach will be Ailie Robertson, a multi-award winning harpist and composer. Ailie is from Edinburgh and is widely recognised as one of Scotland's leading young traditional musicians. She has performed and taught all over the world, released three solo CD's and published seven volumes of harp sheet music.

Another popular feature of the festival is the Saturday afternoon concert featuring two leading young international harpists who were successful at the annual Camac Harp Competition

22nd to 26th August

he Cornwall Folk Festival is a wonderful summer event taking place in the picturesque town of Wadebridge. The festival boasts five nights of the finest in folk, three days of back-to-back regional music at the FAR Stage, live music in the streets, sessions in pubs and dance and music workshops.

This year’s festival boast the Unthanks, Steve Knightley, Wizz Jones in his 80th year, Flats and Sharps, Midnight Skyracer and a host of others such as Kitty MacFalane, Miranda Sykes and The Rowan Tree to name a few. There is also non-stop music at the FAR Stage with around 35 regional and national performers, plus a bar and great food options.

Visit cornwallfolkfestival.com for full details.

pictured top: Ailie Robertson, performing at Harp on Wight; right: The Rowan Tree, performing at Cornwall Folk Festival, (photo Omrop Fryslân, Willem de Vries)

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spotlight on... a feast of festivals Three fun and creative summer events in Littlehampton this July Littlehampton Love Festival now in its 7th year 13th July at Caffyn’s Field

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he Love Festival is a community festival which kicks off the beginning of the Littlehampton Arts Festival. The festival day is hosted by Littlehampton’s Organisation of Community Arts which is non-profit arts organisation facilitated and run by a dedicated group of volunteers most of whom are artists, who are keen to not only see Littlehampton grow and develop, but also to assist the development of the South Coast Arts program. All of the above is made possible and supported by Littlehampton Town Council, Arun District Council, Tescos Bags of Help, West Sussex County Council, Sussex Community Foundation, Littlehampton Bonfire Association, along with local businesses and the local community.

Many local providers help, who together with their families, some three generations and growing, have worked with us to make the Love better each year for the community to enjoy.

One of our favourite aspects of the Love Festival is the Community Stall Area, as it brings together many other local organisations, clubs and charities into one area for the public to visit and discover all the other wonderful public services which are available in our area. The motto of this year’s Love Festival is ‘Keep the Green Clean’ as our parks and green spaces need to be respected and usable for the whole community.

Visit www.facebook.com/LittlehamptonLoveFestival for further information.

Arts in the Courtyard 27th July, Evans Garden Courtyard, Arcade Road, 12noon to 5pm

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n afternoon of art with live music, watch South Coast artists at work, a chance for the visitors to ask artists about technique and materials. The artists selected will all be specialists in their work, from spray painters, ceramicists, painters, etchers to illustrators. There will be plenty of free art activities for all ages and abilities to participate in. All materials will be provided for the free activities. We welcome artists of all ages and abilities to bring along their own sketch books, canvases and join in too.

Visit www.facebook.com/LOCALittlehamptonArts/

Ukulele Jam of Jams 28th July, 1pm to 6pm

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gathering of ukulele groups from all over the region at the Stage by the Sea to celebrate playing music together, the ukulele and life in general.

A local specialist street food provider will be selling beverages & food at the event, part proceeds go towards local causes.

For further info visit www.facebook.com/ LOCALittlehamptonArts/

pictured from top: Hot & Sticky, Love Festival; Arts in the Courtyard; Littlehampton Ukelele Jam of Jams

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his special weekend will celebrate possibly the greatest achievement to date in the history of space exploration. Daytime activities will include science shows, rocket launching, creating craters as well as building lunar landers and moon buggies out of recycled materials. You can also view the 26-inch refracting telescope that the late Sir Patrick Moore used as part of his contribution to a moon mapping project that helped NASA to determine the optimum landing sites for the Apollo missions.

All the activities above are included with the general admission and will only be available during the day. On the evening of the 20th July, Robin Mobbs, lead educator for the National Space Academy, will give a fascinating talk about the Apollo 11 mission.

This will be followed by viewing through the giant telescopes (weather permitting).

Daytime opening: 10am to 6pm. Evening opening: 6.30pm to midnight. The talk will take place at 8pm.

Adult: £12.00 Child: £8.00 Advance booking available or pay on arrival.

For more details, visit www.the-observatory.org or call 01323 832731 to make a booking.

hy is it called Summer Trifle? We could think of no better word than Trifle to describe this wonderful mixture of arts, crafts, open gardens, entertainment and cake. Step into the grounds of Pickhams and enter a world of creativity, enjoy talking to artists about their work, take part in the workshops covering health, arts, crafts, music and literature and be entertained with live music and comedy and drama performances.

Wander around the enchanting hidden gardens in Wilmington. Once formal gardens, the years have matured the evergreens, weeping willows and silver birches to create secret, shaded enclosures, a perfect setting for garden sculptures and art installations.

Ivy covered walls, a pond, pergola and secret walled garden all add to the charm.

Entrance is free to the gardens, the exhibitions and to some of the events. Tickets will be on sale for live music and drama productions and all workshops must be booked in advance. Visit pickhams.com for more info or call 01323 705153. Pickhams is also on social media.

pictured top: The Labyrinth at Pickhams; inset: Anna Acciarini, Dancing Birds sculpture (detail); right: Apollo 11 Lunar Lander

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The All Saints Centre, Lewes 12th to 14th July

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he 2019 BREMF programme is all about change and changing times. With its theme of ‘Metamorphosis’, the Festival will present 27 events across Brighton & Hove this autumn, exploring transformation in many intriguing ways.

Deborah Roberts, Artistic Director, writes: “The idea of things undergoing transforming change has long fascinated the human race. Our 2019 Festival explores the 2,000-year-old stories in Ovid’s Metamorphoses, as well as musical and social transformation over the centuries.

We end the Festival with a re-creation of the medieval Feast of Fools, which reversed all the social hierarchy for a few days and allowed a ‘letting off of steam’ for people living under the control of a feudal system.”

Headline events include the first public performance in modern times of Antoine Brumel’s complete Lamentations for Good Friday, recently discovered in a Florentine manuscript and performed by Musica Secreta and a whole day devoted to J S Bach. Baroque ensemble Ceruleo perform ‘Burying the Dead’, and Fieri Consort perform their play with music exploring the life of celebrated Venetian composer Barbara Strozzi. The culmination of the Festival is an immersive performance of The Feast of Fools, combining medieval music, street dance, community performers and children from Brighton & Hove schools.

The Festival has long been at the forefront of developing and mentoring young artists, and over half of this year’s events feature current or former members of the Festival’s BREMF Live! Young Artist Scheme.

Community events include a Highland Dance workshop and Ceilidh and a wide range of family concerts for toddlers and older children from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and Really Classical.

Tickets are on sale from early September at bremf.org.uk or 01273 709709.

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festival of ideas with speakers of all backgrounds and interests, mainly centring on politics, literature ideas and history.

Speakers include: Helen Pankhurst, great granddaughter of Sylvia the suffragette, Andy Smart one of the UK’s best improvisation comedians, Richard Harries former Bishop of Oxford, Linda Yueh Oxford academic and former BBC Chief Business Correspondent, Guy Leschziner leader of the Sleep Disorder Centre at St Guys Hospital and BBC 4 presenter on the mysteries of sleep, Jonathan Fenby former Editor of the Observer, David Wilson Professor of Criminology at Birmingham City University and former Prison Governor to the most violent men in the UK, Andrew Monaghan Director of Research on Russia, Oxford University, Rosa Prince the Daily Telegraph journalist, Martin Kemp a world authority on Leonardo Da Vinci, Paul Dolan Professor of Behavioural Science at LSE and expert on happiness and Ayesha Hazarika, stand-up comedian and former special adviser to Gordon Brown.

Visit www.lewesspeakersfestival.com for all details.

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RAMEAU Suite from Dardenus BLAVET Flute Concerto in A minor BLAVET Flute Concerto inmajor A minor minor BLAVET A LECLAIRE TrioConcerto Sonata Ain SUNDAYFlute STinLEONARD’S CHURCH LECLAIRE Trio Sonata in A major SUNDAY ST LEONARD’S CHURCH LECLAIRE Trio Sonata in A major CORRETTE Concerto Comiques Op. 25 AUG 28 South Stoke CORRETTE Concerto Comiques Op. 25 Les Sauvages et laStoke Furstemburg CORRETTE Comiques Op. 25 AUG 28 Concerto South 12.30 LesflSauvages Sauvages et et la la Furstemburg Furstemburg Ashley Solomon ute Les 12.30 GabiSolomon Jones, Conor Ashley Solomon uteGricmanis violins Ashley flflute Erlend Vestby GabiJoanna Jones,Patrick Conorviola Gricmanis violinscello Gabi Jones, Conor Gricmanis violins Claire Williams Joanna Patrick violaharpsichord Erlend Vestby Vestby cello cello Joanna Patrick viola Erlend Claire Williams Williams harpsichord harpsichord Claire

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ALKE QUARTET ALKE QUARTET Colin Lawson clarinet Colin Lawson clarinet

Saturday August 19.30 Saturday 2424 August 19.30 ALKE QUARTET ALKE QUARTET St Nicholas Church, Arundel St Nicholas Church, Arundel Nathaniel Harrison bassoon Nathaniel Harrison bassoon

FESTIVAL CONCERT FESTIVAL CONCERT

BEETHOVEN Overture to Prometheus SOUNDS OLD! BEETHOVEN Overture to Prometheus SOUNDSSymphony OLD! BEETHOVEN No 8No 8 THE HANOVER BAND BEETHOVEN Symphony THE HANOVER BAND MOZART Aria Vado, Ma Dove Odei Anthony Halstead MOZART Ariaconductor Vado, Ma Dove Odei Anthony Exsultate Halstead conductor MOZART Jubilate

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THE HANOVER Erica Eloff BAND soprano THE HANOVER Erica Eloff BAND soprano CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

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For further information our concerts and to book online visit: www.thehanoverband.com BOOK ONLINEabout WWW.CHICHESTERTICKETS.CO.UK tel: 01243 813595 or in person from the Cloisters Shop, Chichester Cathedral West Sussex For further information about our concerts and to book online visit: www.thehanoverband.com

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LEWES SPEAKERS FESTIVAL 12th, 13th and 14th July The All Saints Centre, Lewes A festival of ideas with speakers of all backgrounds and interests, mainly centring on politics, literature ideas and history.

All of the presenters are leaders in their fields and most are nationally recognised figures.

25th – 29th October 2019

For details of speakers see page 12

Concerts, Workshops, Lectures, Harp-making course, Harp Showroom & much more...

www.lewesspeakersfestival.com Box office: 0333 666 3366

Ryde – Isle of Wight 01983 730930

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SHIPLEY

FESTIVAL

2019

Artistic Director: Andrew Bernardi

A CELEBRATION OF MUSIC AND THE ARTS an exciting and eclectic programme of concerts that unite the arts, heritage and Sussex communities at some of the county’s most beautiful venues Led by violinist Andrew Bernardi, the Shipley Arts Festival is a most highly regarded classical music festival, which has become nationally renowned for its innovative performances and commissioning of new music.

To book tickets call 01403 750220 or go to www.thecapitolhorsham.com.

Concerts regularly sell out in advance so be sure to book early. To join the Festival Friends for priority booking and other benefits visit the website:

www.shipleyartsfestival.co.uk Henfield Agency 01273 492239 Bysshopps, High Street, Henfield, West Sussex, BN5 9HP

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HASTINGS EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL 17 – 20 October 2019

Concerts, Open Rehearsals, Choral & Instrumental Workshops Bringing internationally acclaimed artists to the South East

I Fagiolini – ‘Leonardo, Shaping the Invisible’ Concert by Candlelight ‘Age of Baroque Virtuoso’ Consone Quartet, BBC New Generation Artists I Fagiolini ‘A superb ensemble, outstanding in their range and versatility’ (The Guardian)

St Mary in the Castle and Kino Teatr Tickets online and from Hastings Tourist Information | www.hemf.co.uk | 01424 433132

Petworth Festival

2019

Friday 28th June Saturday 13th July

Tuesday 16 July Saturday 3 August

Box Office opens 8th April

Featuring

Rick Wakeman Sir John Tomlinson MILOŠ Julian Clary Viktoria Mullova Georgie Fame Imogen Cooper

Programme includes

Steven Isserlis Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Orchestra Tim Garland Ora Singers A Winter’s Tale The Castalion Quartet Florilegium Freddy Kempf for the complete programme visit

and many more

www.dealmusicandarts.com

Miloš Karadaglić Photo: Andy Earl/Mercury Classics

Full details on www.petworthfestival.org.uk Box Office opens 9 May

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FOLK MUSIC B Y T H E S E A JON B O D E N & T H E R E M NANT KINGS | THE POOZIES THE OU T S I D E T R A C K | T I M EDEY | MEGSON | THE WILLOWS SHEE L A N A G I G | N O B L E J ACKS | DAMIEN & THE O’MEN KIT T Y M A C FA R L A N E | K ABANTU | GRANNY’S ATTIC N I N E B A R R O W | B A N T ER | GILMORE ROBERTS ALDEN PAT T E R S O N A N D D A SHWOOD | HOT ROCK PILGRIMS MOIRAI | P I L G R I M ’ S WAY | BELLA, POLLY & THE MAGPIES P L U S M A N Y M O R E TO BE ANNOUNCED! CONCERTS . CEILIDHS . WORK S H O P S . C H I L D R E N ’ S F E S T I VA L DANCES . CRAFT & MUSIC FA I R . F E S T I VA L C A M P S I T E

F E S T I VA L T I C K E T S AVA I L A B L E N O W !

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THE UNTHANKS Thurs 22nd–Mon 26th August Bank Holiday 2019 Wadebridge, Cornwall Steve KNIGHTLEY

The Unthanks Steve Knightley

Midnight Skyracer Flats & Sharps Noble Jacks Granny’s Attic Krelys Mick Ryan’s ‘Here at the Early Birds £35 Fair’ Wizz Jones at Full price £95/£45 80 Celebration (& under 16s Individual friends) more to confirm gig tickets available.

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METAMORPHOSIS BREMF 2019 explores transformation and change across 700 years of music and 2,000 years of stories. Innovative events including music dramas revealing new perspectives on the lives of Purcell and Barbara Strozzi; Bach’s Musical Offering; a recreation of the medieval Feast of Fools; plus family concerts, workshops and more.

See the full programme and join the mailing list at bremf.org.uk or call 01273 833746.

Tickets on sale early September. @BREMF

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Shoreham

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Wordfest Creative Writing Children's Theatre Climate Change Conference

7 SEPT - 13 OCT

www.shorehamwordfest.com

John Humphrys Simon Armitage Stanley Johnson Polly Toynbee Lynne Truss Simon Brett

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LOVE LITTLEHAMPTON

FESTIVAL 2019 July 13th 10am-6pm

Caffyn’s Field BN17 5JG

FREE day-long workshop in circus skills for children of all ages & abilities Children’s amusements • Community Groups Area • Artisan Stalls & Street Food The Pearly King, Queen & Princess of Peckham with their touring museum MC: Darren Power

PICK UP THE PLASTIC

PERFORMANCES BY: This Charming House • The Littlehampton Ukulele Jam • The Thieves Kitchen with Lee Payne • Exotic Dancer Sirona Thorneycroft • Light Brigade Electric Feel • Rock Sensations Hot & Sticky Special Guest performance by Lewis James

WE ARE NOW IN OUR 7TH YEAR!

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M EVEORE NTS

Discover arts, music and lots more in this hidden Sussex garden

6-22 Sept 2019

An an show nual fest Mu si casing Art ival Cinemc, Theatre, , and D a, Litera ture, accom ance p a n Food i & Dri ed by goo d nk.

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3rd - 18th AUGUST TALKS & WORKSHOPS INCLUDING ART & CRAFTS WELLBEING, PRINT MAKING AND DANCE

LIVE MUSIC, DRAMA OPEN GARDEN, ART, CRAFT & SCULPTURE www.pickhams.com

3 0 T H AU G U ST – 1ST S E P T E M B E R

Soak up the incredible atmosphere that surrounds our fabulous observatory STAY FO R THE DAY O R THE WHOLE WEEKEND !

• Lectures • Camping • Family Activities

• Planetarium • Trade Stalls

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• Interactive Exhibits • Free entry to members on the Sunday

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chalk gallery An exciting summer ahead as Chalk features three exceptional artists and light-heartedly embraces the modern-day phenomenon of the selfie as part of their summer exhibition hosting a ‘Be your Selfie’ party on Saturday 17th August from 5-8pm to mark the beginning of Lewes’ Artwave Festival.

from top: Lindsey Pearson, Resplendence, watercolour and pencil; Claudia Wiegand, Circle of Life, fused glass bowl; Simone Riley, Above & Below; Janie CochraneStewart, Stormy Weather (detail), oil (Summer Selfie)

The new exhibition in the gallery on 1st July brings ‘Emotions of Colour’ a new collection of watercolour and earth ink expressive paintings by Lindsey Pearson who welcomes you to ‘Meet the Artist’ on 6th July 1.00 to 4.00pm.

Simone Riley follows on 22nd July revealing her latest digital photomontage works that explore the juxtaposition of urban decay and the natural world using the textures of worn surfaces that she uses artistically.

Chalk’s summer exhibition begins on 12th August featuring new work and the artists' Summer Selfies.

The Chalk artists warmly invite you to join them for an evening of fun and celebration to ‘Be your Selfie’ on Saturday 17th August 5.00 to 8.00 pm and the show continues until 22nd September.

All change in the gallery on 23rd September and Claudia Wiegand celebrates an ‘Indian Summer’ with a vibrant display of her fused glass artworks and sculptures inspired by the cool blues and warm sunset hues of the summer’s end and her endless passion for trees. Claudia will be at the Gallery on the 25th September and invites you to ‘Meet the Artist’ on Saturday 5th October from 2 to 4pm.

For more information about the gallery, the artists and their work visit www.chalkgallerylewes.co.uk Chalk Gallery, 4 North Street, Lewes, BN7 2PA. Open 7 days a week, 10am to 5pm.

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Towner Gallery’s

exterior wall transformed this summer German artist Lothar Götz is transforming the exterior walls of Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, into a large-scale, colourful geometric mural this summer to mark the gallery’s 10th anniversary.

Götz, who is based in the UK, was chosen from 60 artists and designers from an open call to create an artwork to mark the 10th anniversary of the gallery’s move from its original home in Eastbourne’s Old Town. Drawing on its architecture, angles and unique exterior recesses and alcoves, Götz’s mural will envelop the length and width of three sides of the award-winning building.

Götz’s work is typically large-scale paintings, drawings and installations that respond to existing architectural structures. This will be his first major public commission on the south coast and the first time an artist has been commissioned to create an artwork for Towner’s exterior.

The Brewers Towner Commission will be rendered in the artist’s signature style using paint supplied by Brewers Decorator Centres, a national company founded and based in Eastbourne. The commission, which coincides with the launch of the £54m redevelopment of Eastbourne’s Devonshire Quarter, will be in situ for one year.

Visit www.townereastbourne.org.uk for full details about this and all exhibitions and events this summer and autumn. pictured above: Lothar Götz, Dance Diagonal, Brewers Towner Commission.

Towner Eastbourne, 2019. photo, Eva Eastman

A New Art Gallery opens at

PURE Arts Group are delighted to announce the opening of a brand new gallery within Beauport House at Bannatyne Hotel & Spa, Hastings.

Launch Exhibition: ‘Enlightened’ runs until 6th September 2019

The launch exhibition for the new gallery is a solo endeavour by respected painter, collage artist and printmaker Brenda Hartill RE. “According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore.

You become light-hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous.” (quoted from Carol Lynn Pearson in Consider the Butterfly) This exhibition is a true celebration of life and art – inspirational, uplifting and joyful. It evidences Brenda’s life long passion for experimentation and pushing the boundaries of what is possible – of courage and formidable resilience. The outcome is enlightening, even miraculous at times – which is both her gift and her legacy.

For more information please visit the PURE website www.pureartsgroup.co.uk

Bannatyne Hotel & Spa, Hastings

Brenda Hartill, Cool Sunshine III

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Lottie Cole:

Everyday Arcadias 14th to 22nd September, (preview evening Friday 13th) Zimmer Stewart Gallery, Arundel Lottie Cole’s latest series of work for her exhibition opens in Arundel on 14th September, and builds upon her ongoing explorations of domesticity and how personal spaces are created, lived in and loved.

Lottie Cole, Palace Street Mews

Magda Devaris is an artist and artisan representative. Having run her Artisan Showcase at One The Square, Forest Row since 2014, she will this year build upon her reputation for programming the best craftspeople and artists offering workshops and masterclasses and organising artist pop-ups beyond Forest Row. Everyday Arcadias is the first in this series of artist pop-ups. www.onethesquare.co.uk

the little art gallery We are looking forward to the summer in our small but perfectly formed gallery.

Her work is a modern reinterpretation of the conversation piece, allowing the viewer to imagine the life and interests of the owners.

Moving beyond the interior the garden series focuses on formal garden spaces, exploring how they offer moments of contemplation & reflection with the same characteristic love of colour seen in her interior works.

“After the enormous success of the Art Collector home series this latest body of work is another exciting, atmospheric and vibrant collection of interiors & gardens imagined by the skilful eye of Cole.”

–Magda Devaris

artwork to take home as a memory of their summer.

As a small gallery we cannot display much at any one time but can always source work for anyone who likes a particular artists’ work or style. www.thelittleartgallery.online

The little art gallery in West Wittering will have a changing series of exhibitions through the summer. Our Festival of Chichester shows this year started with Frances Knight 'Between Shore and Sky' and is followed in July by mother and daughter Helena and Maggie Cochran, whose joint show 'On the Beach' comprises coastal landscape paintings by Maggie and coastal photography by Helena, featuring the Witterings and other favourite beaches. We are delighted to be showing more of their vibrant works.

After these shows will be our third rolling summer exhibition. We like to provide interest for our regular customers but also a variety of works that have the sense of summer for the holiday makers and other visitors to the area. Our aim is to give everyone the opportunity to purchase a unique piece of

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visual arts contemporary gallery space between city and sea showcasing original work by local artists We are looking forward to summer in our gallery even if the weather is not good there will be plenty of sunshine, sea, landscapes and colour

Dominic Firmstone: Photography

Maggie Cochrane: Oil Paintings

Frances Knight: Oil Paintings

Antonio Gouveia: Photography

Also on display at all times is a selection of paintings | prints ceramics | enamels | jewellery | glassware | cards & much more Rookwood Road, West Wittering, PO20 8LT | 01243 512218 for opening times & info: www.thelittleartgallery.online

Summer 2019 Towner Art Gallery Phoebe Unwin Iris

Lothar Götz

TEN

Dance Diagonal

Towner curates the collection

Image: courtesy Lothar Götz

Dineo Seshee Bopape Sedibeng, it comes with the rain

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ONE THE SQUARE Artisans - Commissioning - Workshops

Lottie Cole: Everyday Arcadias 14th – 22nd September (preview evening 13th September) Zimmer Stewart Gallery, Arundel, BN18 9DG www.onethesquare.co.uk Rose Arbour, Chartwell, home of Winston Churchill

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Chris Rivers

Artgenu/e

by Lesley Samms | PURE Fine Art

What’s the Story?

Artists talking about their unique journey For this mid-summer edition we venture up north to meet artist Chris Rivers. Working out of his studio space in Bolton, Lancashire, Chris works in surrealistic-meets-abstract style, experimenting with the darker side of beauty and innocence.

Chris discovered his passion for painting during his time as a professional rock music drummer in the band Heaven’s Basement. “My time with the band took me on tour all around the world; I never really thought I would do anything else. During a fourmonth tour of the US in late 2013 however I started to sketch on one of my used drumheads after a show, using some Sharpie pens – and the seed of change was sown…”

His primary artistic inspiration comes from the artists of the 1900’s. “The Impressionist are a big influence, probably more for their brush strokes than subjects. Italian and French Renaissance painters and the Rococo era in terms of colour palettes. There are a lot of artists I appreciate; some of my favourites include 26

Goya, Odilon Redon, Giovanni Tiepolo, Singer Sargent, Caravaggio, Monet, Fragonard… I could go on and on. If I could personally own any artwork from history ‘Carnation Lily, Lily, Rose’ by John Singer Sargent would be at the top of my list, alongside ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ by Hieronymus Bosch.”

Travelling the world with his band has provided a great archive for Chris to draw on. “I took some great images of industrial skylines and sunsets in various places around the world. I always loved travelling through the Black Forest in Bavaria too, you can really get a sense of the Brothers Grimm!”

Chris is a firm believer in the process of trial and error. Always learning, on a journey of personal selfdiscovery. He has no formal art education, however he does hail from a very creative family. “My mum has always made her living from creating things and my dad was a drummer, which inspired me to also become a drummer.” Consequently he had a very creative upbringing. “It’s the only path I’ve either known, music or art. I feel like I’ve always lived in my own bubble. Being in this bubble means I have naturally gravitated to fellow creatives and opted to take the creative pathway. I remember sitting on a

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tour bus in Canada during one of my former band's tours travelling to a show. At the time I wanted something as a positive and healthy distraction to the chaos and absolute insanity of being in a full time touring rock band. That’s when I started drawing on my broken drumheads and cymbals after shows and gradually became more and more obsessed. I knew things were getting serious for me when we had a day off in Chicago.

The usual plan would be to go out drinking but I went and found the closest art store and spent my whole day in the hotel room painting!

“In late 2016 I decided to step away from the music business completely and pursue my love of painting, which by this time I’d become totally obsessed with. I would describe my painting style now as impulsive, uninhibited and energetic, which reflects my general approach to life. I’m very proud of everything I’ve learned to this point as it’s come from within myself; by simply experimenting and finding my own natural path. Its been hard work but the improvement I’ve experienced over the past 3 or 4 years, since I began, is something I’m very happy with.

“Everything in the world now is so fast and has to be instant, for me painting is the natural antithesis to this. I try and allow each painting

to find its own natural path, even through the stages when it’s difficult, sometimes those stages can inspire a drastic approach that can take the painting in a totally unexpected direction. You have to take risks I think; what’s the point of keeping things safe and staying in your comfort zone? A comfort zone is the worst place to be because you will only achieve the predictable and the expected. Sometimes you can end up in there without even realising, but when you do I think it’s important to smash down the walls and shake things up!

“Painting is now my life – I can’t imagine doing anything else. I love the freedom of being my own boss and its perfect for my family life. My time in the music industry taught me never to take things for granted. One minute I was in a band opening festival shows in the US for Guns N' Roses in front of 50,000 people, the next minute my music career was coming to an end and I was faced with a fear of not quite knowing where I would belong in the real world.

Painting came to my rescue (literally!). I hope I can now just carry on painting and go with the flow.”

You can view and buy Chris’ artwork online at www.chrisriversart.com. He will also be exhibiting in Hong Kong towards the end of 2019 and at the Affordable Art Fairs in Melbourne, Australia and New York. top: Underwater out of space; below: Everyone wants to be a spaceman (detail)

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Keith Vaughan

fine art - jewellery sculpture - textiles ceramics - glass and so much more...

Suzanne Hennegrave

Anthony Ellis

The Coach House, High Street, Alfriston, East Sussex, BN26 5TD Tel: 01323 871402 Mob: 07970 549873 info@newart-gallery.co.uk www.newart-gallery.co.uk Opening Times: Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday 11 am – 5 pm

27 Brunswick Road, Shoreham by Sea BN43 5WA Just South of the Station!

www.shorehamgallery.co.uk Tel: 01273 272063 Picture Framing Service now Available

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visual arts admission is free. For further details please call Cathy Bird on 01892 870067 or email cathy. bird1@btopenworld.com. For directions, google Jessops Farm Studios, Tonbridge Road, Bough Beech, Edenbridge TN8 7AU. pictured left: Jonathan Brown, Somerden to Chiddingstone 21; bottom: Sally Eldars, Rolling Hills; [both taking part in 'Landscapes – a celebration' at Jessops Farm Studios] below: Grant Dejong, Self portrait [from '100 days of Sod’em', Artologie, Cuckfield]

LANDSCAPES a celebration

20th September to 6th October Jessops Farm Studio Gallery sits gently in the Kentish Weald, encircled by that designated Area of Outstanding Natural Bauty.

This exhibition echoes our artists’ responses to this landscape but also encompasses very individual approaches to land, sea and sky in other locations.

Jonathan Brown’s edgy, dark images have been said to ’bring Punk to Kent’, while Helene Brett lovingly records the views encountered on her many walks in the countryside. Gabriel Knollys evokes dreamy, coastal flatlands, in contrast to Sally Eldars' sometimes wildly dramatic scenes. Then we have the abstract realms of scenic space in the works of Georgina Roberts and Margaret Devitt. There are also paintings from other artists associated with the studios. Some of these works you may love, others might challenge you, but they will always excite!

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ARTOLOGIE two exciting events coming up in Cuckfield's gallery, Artologie Grant Dejonge Self Portraits, 23rd August to 6th September Through 100 art works created and curated over 100 days, artist Grant Dejonge illuminates, documents and celebrates 50 years of life. Over those 100 days Grant explores those 50 years through self portrait in '100 days of Sod’em', an exhibition of existence.

A self taught artist, Grant Dejonge has been making art for twenty five years. He lives in the heart of the South Downs where he records the beautiful scenery that make up the South Downs National Park Following a fire in 2018 which destroyed many paintings and his studio Grant has been working hard to recover his painting stock and also rebuild his space aided by the generosity of the local villagers who have supported him and his work.

He has become a well known face in Plumpton and was awarded a commission by Network Rail to produce artwork for the hoarding at Plumpton Station. a

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Drawn to the dynamics and textures of the subjects that form his compositions, Clegg uses long exposure techniques to isolate their inherent beauty. His passion for photography is that of simplicity; he seeks out compositions with clean lines, symmetry and negative space which is subtly echoed in his work. It is the appreciation of the landscape that is his main source of inspiration, where he can immerse himself in the elements, away from the distractions of everyday life.

Venice provides the ideal backdrop for him to realise his craft, from the intricacies of the architecture found in the city, to the simplicity of everyday objects that often go unnoticed in the surrounding lagoons. His fascination with this unique city has not faded and over the years he has continued an ongoing project to

SHOREHAM ART GALLERY

Noel Clegg, Calma, Venice

document his own 'moments of solitude' in an otherwise thriving city.

For more information on both of these exhibitions visit www.artologie.co.uk.

railway station where a warm welcome awaits. We look forward to your visit! www.shorehamgallery.co.uk

There is a very special art gallery just south of Shoreham-by-Sea railway station. If you haven’t been in already, this is a place that you simply must know about. The locals treasure it and some customers even seem to pop in on a daily basis!

Shoreham Art Gallery is a collective of over 20 local artists, all involved in the running of this unique gem. We take turns to man the gallery so there’s opportunity to come in and enjoy a chat with the creator of your favourite works of art. We are also happy to help you find that perfect gift or for you to browse the wide selection of work inside the gallery or around our beautiful sculpture garden at your own pace.

As well as traditional painting, printmaking and photography we offer a wide range of handcrafted objects from delightful felted animals and works in glass to turned wood and precious jewellery. There is so much to discover and we delight in sharing our passion for what we do with our customers. If you need to find that perfect gift or would like to commission one of the artists, we’re there to help.

Upstairs we now boast our own in-house picture framer and if you feel like putting your own artistic talents to the test, just drop in and find out about which courses we offer.

We enjoy a strong local following and are a central part of the community but some of our artists have international clients and we draw visitors from far and wide. We are very proud of our gallery and we look forward to sharing it with you. Look out for the turquoise building just south of Shoreham-by-Sea

Teresa Martin, Marlinspike Monolith

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THE ‘OTHER’ SUMMER EXHIBITION You’re invited to celebrate Shoreham Artists with us!

Come along and vote for your favourite artist The exhibition runs from Saturday 17th August to Saturday 31st August at The Skyway Gallery Pond Road Shoreham by Sea BN43 5WU Artist of the Exhibition Award Judged by award-winning artist Shirley Trevanna and People’s Vote Award

Tim Huitson, Shoreham Harbour

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Littlehampton Museum OPEN

2019

GALLERY SHOP STUDIO EXHIBITIONS W OR KSHOPS

G A L L E RY SHOP STUDIO EXHIBITIONS

The Sea Submission Dates 5th - 7th Sept

Exhibition Dates 21st Sept - 13th Dec More information available at: littlehamptonmuseum.co.uk

Celebrating and retailing work from local artists and skilled makers ~ paintings, bespoke silver jewellery, art materials, cards and gift items

Manor House, Church Street, Littlehampton, West Sussex. BN17 5EW. 01903 738100 museum@littlehampton-tc.gov.uk

Artologie, 18 High Street, Cuckfield, Haywards Heath RH17 5JU • 01444 708380 • www.artologie.co.uk

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OPEN 2019 – THE SEA

Saturday 21st September to Friday 13th December Littlehampton Museum’s hugely popular OPEN exhibition returns for its 8th year, with great artwork from all over Sussex filling the Hearne Gallery until Christmas.

This year for the first time, the museum asked its visitors to choose the theme, and after hundreds of votes The Sea proved most popular. As ever, people of any age, ability or

Adur Art Collective a group of artists, run by artists for artists Exhibitions and awards – exciting things to come for this diverse group of over 120 talented artists.

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artistic medium are invited to create artwork and have the chance to be included in the final display.

Dates of submission: Work may be brought to the Museum during opening hours from Thursday 5th September to Saturday 7th September 2019.

Each artist must complete an entry form to enter the OPEN, this should be handed in along with your artwork during submission week. Forms can be picked up at the Museum Reception Desk, or downloaded from the museum website. Please note, forms must be checked and signed by a member of Museum Staff upon submission. For more information please visit the museum website, pop in, or contact the team.

Manor House, Church Street, Littlehampton BN17 5EW. Contact 01903 738100, email museum@littlehampton-tc.gov.uk.

Littlehamptonmuseum.co.uk pictured top left: Pete Gilbert, Pulpit Rock; bottom left: Shirley Trevanna, Magnolias filling a room

"As chairperson of the new Adur Art Collective Committee this has been a very busy year, working with a new enthusiastic and creative team, I would describe the experience as exciting and a huge learning curve.

Most of our members will be featured this year in The ‘other’ Summer Exhibition, which is being held at The Skyway Gallery, Shoreham. The show runs from Monday 19th August to Saturday 31st August, with our private view on Monday 19th from 6 to 8pm. There is a real diversity of artists from painters to photographers, ceramicists to mosaic artists and glass artist to jewellers and the standard is high!

There will be two exciting awards this year, Best in Show which will be judged by acclaimed artist and patron Shirley Trevanna and local artist Katie Sollohub. We will also be hosting a Public Vote Award, so you could be part of this if you pop along to Skyway gallery at Shoreham Community Centre, Pond Lane, Shoreham during that fortnight and cast your vote.

You will not be disappointed by what is on display.

And what next? Well we have the 10th anniversary of the Adur Art Trail in June 2020, from 6th to 22nd, and we are aiming to make it the best yet, with art, music and much more – so this is going to prove to be another memorable year. If you are an artist who lives in the Adur District and have not yet joined the collective make sure you do so before next year’s Art Trail! Follow us on Facebook: Adur Art Collective."

Kathy Serinturk, Chairperson Adur Art Collective.

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Gallery BN5 Gallery BN5 is located in a prime position in High Street, Henfield. As an artistrun gallery, it has featured work from talented local artists since its inception in April 2018.

Currently run by glass artist Nina Smith and painter Esther Newnham Brown, with exhibiting artists sharing the stewarding, rental of spaces can be booked from one month to six. Choices are of cabinets, various walls, windows, shelving and browsers, windows are, of course, the most popular! This keeps the gallery always looking fresh with new exciting work to see.

Paintings, jewellery, fused glass, woodturning and photography are amongst the monthly exhibits that can be found in this Artists Emporium. We believe at the Gallery that art is created for beauty and emotional reaction and to be appreciated by individuals, using personal feelings and tastes to form an opinion, so that what one person finds beautiful others may frown upon, therefore artists that want to exhibit are always given the opportunity if space allows.

Nina Smith, Poppy Field, fused glass panel

We are open from Tuesday to Saturday 9.30am to 4.30pm and the artist in charge will always give a warm welcome during opening hours. You can round off your visit to Gallery BN5 with a delicious coffee and cake or tasty lunch at Relish, the smartly refurbished deli just up the road. A perfect day!

Contact us through our website www.gallerybn5.co.uk or Facebook page Gallery BN5, or email info@gallerybn5.co.uk.

MAC Exhibition 27th & 28th July

A new Eastbourne art group, Meads Art Circle (MAC) is holding its first exhibition on the weekend of 27th and 28th of July in the St John’s Parish Church Hall. The exhibition will be open from 10.00am to 4.00pm on both days.

The group was formed by members of Catriona Millar’s Art Class which meets every Tuesday and Wednesday in the Parish Hall in Upper Meads, Eastbourne. Fourteen artists will be exhibiting a wide range of work including landscapes, figurative work and local scenes. MAC Chairwoman and founder Anne Schauerte was inspired by the work of her fellow artists.

“I looked around the class one day and I thought the work was so impressive that it deserved wider appreciation,” said Anne, “the standard is very high across both the art classes and the diversity of styles and subject matter really is incredible. So forming our own exhibiting art group seemed the natural next step. I think visitors will be delighted by the exhibition.”

Art class tutor Catriona Millar is very proud of her

students. “I think it's wonderful that such an innovative and creative group has grown from the art class,” said Catriona, “we have so many talented members it's very exciting to see them sharing their work with the public. I am sure this exhibition will be the first of many to come.”

You’ll find more information on MAC and Catriona Millar’s Eastbourne art class at wwwcatrionamillar.com.

The Meads Art Circle with art tutor Catriona Millar (far right)

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Original artworks by local artists 107th exhibition

Drill Hall, Denne Rd, Horsham RH12 1JF august 16–24, 2019

call for entries in 2D and 3D work from members and non-members Deadline for entries august 1, 2019 Delivery of work for selection august 11, 2019

All works must be for sale. All selected entries are eligible to win prizes of up to £300 in our fine art awards sponsored by Brock Taylor

GalleryBN5 is a new artist run gallery in Henfield High Street, offering beautiful affordable art.

We have wonderful collection of original work including paintings, jewellery, ceramics, fused glass, turned wood & cards. Work changes each month, so there is always something new to see.

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RESTLESS GAZE

An exhibition of abstract art by Mark Wilson and Fleur Cowgill MA Colonnade House, Warwick Street, Worthing, West Sussex 27th August – 1st September 2019, entry free.

For further details see www.colonnadehouse.co.uk

Mark Wilson, A Fall of Light (detail), oil on card For more work see www.markwilsonart.com

Fleur Cowgill, Blue 495-450nm, perspex light gel sculpture For more work see www.fleurcowgillartist.com

Jessops Farm Studios

LANDSCAPES − A CELEBRATION 20 September to 6 October 2019 10 am to 5 pm DAILY

An exhibition of paintings by artists with a wide range of individual responses to the beauty of our surroundings.

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Restless Gaze

Colonnade House, Warwick Street, Worthing 27th August to 1st September Restless Gaze shows the work of Horsham artists Mark Wilson and Fleur Cowgill. Both paint in the abstract genre, Wilson with a focus on landscapes and seascapes, Cowgill using similar inspiration but influenced by a sense of personal history and geography. In choosing the title ‘Restless Gaze’ the artists invite visitors to let their eyes roam restlessly across and deep into the works.

Wilson, also a published playwright and theatre director, paints as a storyteller working to ‘communicate the restlessness present within a scene as a continuously shifting intensity of sound and movement’.

Working in oils of just 4 or 5 colours, using palette knife and rags to drag the paint, and often applying rope fibre or sea salt to add texture, achievement for him is for the viewer to begin to hear and feel as well as see, experiencing a narrative that is almost filmic.

Cowgill, who has already exhibited this year in New York, Brighton and London, and had a piece shortlisted for the RA Summer Exhibition, says her large 100cm x 100cm canvases relate to location. A child of the post-colonial diaspora, she travelled between vibrant humid tropical lands and the cooler softer British Isles. Oceans and seas often feature, reflecting emotions and suggesting narratives from the portentous architectural stillness of Adriatic channels

through vast expanses of the Indian Ocean and back to the heaving restless northern seas.

She floods the surface with thin veils of colour, dilute oil paint, inks and watercolour, softly staining the canvas, then builds layers of structured vertical strokes creating interstices. Sometimes considered and carefully placed, at other times she works with great energy and spontaneity using chalk pastels, graphite and impasto. As well as exhibiting canvases she will be showing her well-regarded acrylic perspex light gel sculptures and smaller-sized giclée prints of selected canvases.

Go to www.markwilsonart.com for more details about Wilson's work and for more details about Cowgill's work visit www.fleurcowgillartist.com. top: Fleur Cowgill, Beyond Levkada

left: Mark Wilson, Camino de Santiago, León, Spain

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Why not start in Worthing?

Artists have always been drawn to coastal areas – the French Impressionists at Deauville and Honfleur in Normandy, the St Ives School in Cornwall – there is something about the light and the changing moods of land and sea that is constantly fascinating. So it’s no surprise that our coastal regions are rewarding to explore and full of creative life.

A tourism initiative called England’s Creative Coast launches a new website in July to help more visitors from home and abroad enjoy the cultural wealth of the south east’s galleries, creative events and heritage. If you are interested in seeking out fresh inspiration, why not start in Worthing?

The summer exhibitions at Colonnade House, in Warwick Street, include many local artists who take inspiration from the landscape and sea, and there are many other places to explore – the seafront beach huts of East Beach Studios, the West End Gallery, the exhibitions and workshops at Worthing Museum, the downloadable ‘Crumbs’ trail for visitors, and the art installations by Creative Waves on Worthing

Pier – voted ‘Pier of the Year’ for 2019. Find out more about what’s on in Worthing at www.discoverworthing. uk and check out our summer programme at www. colonnadehouse.co.uk. We look forward to seeing you! above: Shireen Avis, Beach, boot polish [Colonnade House]; below: Barry Williams, The Wall; bottom: Sarah Sepe, Mimosa Gold (detail) [West End Gallery]

West End Gallery 87 Rowlands Road, Worthing

Anticipating the (eventual!) arrival of summer, Sarah and Barry are ready with a selection of their colourful prints, photographs and quirky mixed-media work which reflect their Gallery's location on the sunny south coast.

Artist-run by Sarah Sepe and Barry Williams, the Gallery's bold lime-green exterior paintwork in Rowlands Road is unmissable in the West End of Worthing, an area that is gaining a reputation for its eclectic mix of independent shops, galleries, cafes and restaurants. It is also their working studios and showcases their distinctive work.

Core opening times are Thursday-Saturday 11am4pm, with extended opening times and days during June, for the annual Worthing Artists Open Houses Trail, and from November until Christmas.

On the 7th of every month from 9am, Sarah and Barry host an informal Networking Breakfast for local artists and anyone with an interest in the arts.

It is held at Brunswick & Thorn Bistro, just off the promenade behand the Premier Inn, in Worthing. No booking necessary – just turn up on the day. We're a friendly bunch and you will be made very welcome.

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SOUTHERN CERAMIC GROUP Summer Exhibition

The 2019 Summer Exhibition by the Southern Ceramic Group will showcase over 600 exhibits from 60 ceramicists at Chichester Cathedral from 27th July to 11th August.

This year will see the work of several new potters exhibited in the historic 'Old Kitchen' in the Bishop's Palace at Chichester Cathedral, which is normally closed to the public.

This popular show attracts phenomenal footfall annually – a testament to the quality and range of work on offer.

The imaginative scope of ceramic creations varies from traditional functional pottery to figurative sculpture. The exhibits will be available to purchase.

Each item displayed will tell its distinct story, reflecting the attitude and inspiration of the creating artist, as well as the chosen technique to produce the work. These techniques range from the choice of glaze and clay to the methods of kiln firing employed. Exhibiting artists will be in attendance to discuss their work and generally assist visitors to enjoy the event and deepen their appreciation for ceramic art.

The Southern Ceramic Group was started in 1975 by a small group of enthusiastic potters. Today it is a thriving group with an ever-expanding membership of over 150 potters. The membership includes potters and sculptors, professionals and amateurs, teachers and students, collectors and enthusiasts.

The group organises a varied programme of demonstrations, workshops and exhibitions.

Equally, members come together in informal and friendly groups to share, discuss and debate pet interests in the world of clay and glazes.

Go to www.southernceramicgroup.org.uk for more information on the Southern Ceramic Group.

Bishop’s Kitchen, Chichester Cathedral, Chichester, PO19 1PX. Saturday 27th July to Sunday 11th August, open daily 10.00am to 5.00pm. Free Entry. above: Cabby Luxford, vessel fired using the Indian Smoke technique; left: Southern Ceramic Group exhibition, Bishops Kitchen, 2018

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Jazz Dixon, Under the Sea

@ The Makery Eastbourne's cooperative gallery, bringing artists together

Run by a cooperative of thirteen talented local artists, this gem of a gallery stocks an eclectic range of fabulous work.

On display can be found hand-crafted art, craft and home furnishings, paintings and prints, ceramics, fused and cast glass, textiles and woodturning. With a re-hang every six weeks and featuring guest artists, there is

always something new to see.

Sited within Eastbourne's Enterprise Shopping Centre, @The Makery is just a few minutes walk away from the railway station. If you haven’t yet discovered the gallery, do pay them a visit; you are assured a warm welcome from the artist on duty. With prices ranging from a few pounds to a few hundred there really is something for everyone. @ The Makery also collaborates with a range of events organised with the Enterprise Centre. Kiln – Fired Up for Ceramics, Glass & Enamelling, a speciality show, returns for its third successful year to the Enterprise Centre in September, Saturday 21st 10-5pm & Sunday 22nd 10-4pm. Makers will be exhibiting and selling their work; there will be demonstrations, workshops and suppliers – a weekend of pure creativity and not to be missed.

For all the information go to www.themakery.me.uk

Terry Guile Jewellery designer maker

Sussex-based Terry Guile designs and makes beautiful and individual silver and enamelled jewellery, which she takes to craft fairs and shows across the region as well as having a permanent presence at The Shoreham Gallery.

Terry started making jewellery about 15 years ago.

She took a piece of jewellery to a jewellery maker to be repaired and discovered that she held classes. That jewellery maker was Katherine Lawrie. Terry's interest was kindled and she has been going ever since.

"I work intuitively using silver, gold, semi-precious stones, enamel and a large selection of freshwater pearls. I always use real stones, which I source and personally select. My starting point usually is the stone or bead, its colour and shape determines the style, setting and design of the final piece, which gives each item its individuality."

Her inspiration comes from the stones, colour of enamels and her surroundings. A farmer's daughter from the South Downs, Terry is an outdoor person.

Terry Guile, silver & enamelled bracelet

She loves her garden and walking her dog on the river Adur and this clearly informs her work.

Her jewellery is on permanent display at The Shoreham Gallery, 27 Brunswick Road, Shoreham BN43 5WA. See her work online at http://terryguile.com

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@The Makery is a group of 13 artists & makers who TOGETHER BRINGING ARTISTS have come together to share their exquisite creations with Guest Artists and a rehang every six weeks.

BRINGING ARTISTS TOGETHER @The Makery is a group of 13 artists & makers who have come together to share their exquisite creations with Guest Artists and a rehang every six weeks.

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The Makery, Unit 7, The Enterprise Shopping Centre, Eastbourne, BN21 1BD. Makery, Unit 7, Email:Theinfo@themakery.me.uk The Enterprise Shopping Centre, Eastbourne, BN21 1BD. www.themakery.me.uk Email: info@themakery.me.uk www.themakery.me.uk

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Artists Make Waves

Artwave – 17th August to 1st September

Throughout the summer we are treated to the luxury of experiencing original art and craft works across the region, sometimes flanked by equally fine pieces of work, each complementing the other, sometimes seeing them in the studios where they were created, and meeting and talking to the artists and creatives themselves – the enjoyment of spending a summer day in this manner made complete with finding a treasure or two to take home.

his summer Artwave will showcase some of the very best creative talent from across a corner of southeast Sussex, taking place over three weekends from 17th August to 1st September.

Follow the trails around Lewes, Newhaven, Seaford and surrounding villages to visit artists and makers in their studios, homes, galleries and workshops.

Take an afternoon, weekend, or even a week to explore the places on your doorstop and with homemade tea and cake on offer too, Artwave is a special summer treat.

The festival will give art lovers the chance to discover new artists, meet the makers, and buy direct from them. The diverse range of work on show includes jewellery, painting, sculpture, printmaking, textiles, ceramics, metalwork, photography and performance art.

Pick up your free guide from Lewes and Seaford Tourist Information Centres from early July or join the mailing list to receive a copy online at artwavefestival.org/mailing-list. Follow us on Instagram @artwavefestival. pictured top: Karen Potter, Twilight Pools, linocut print

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Pauline Devaney

Artwave – 17th August to 1st September

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auline Devaney is exhibiting her paintings at The House of Friendship, Lewes, during this year's Artwave Festival, 17th August to 1st September.

After spending many years as a professional actress and writer for both television and the theatre, she began painting full time in 2001. She has exhibited in both France and the UK and her work is collected internationally.

She works exclusively in oils, developing the palette and composition of her images from a mood created by a poem or a piece of music, the way particular colours, shapes, and textures relate to each other, sometimes a memory, or the many different skies she sees from her studio windows in Lewes.

Her greatest regret is that she didn’t have the opportunity to become an artist when she was young, but at the same time is aware that her experience in the theatre and television has uniquely informed her work.

Venue 114, The House of Friendship, 208 High Street, Lewes, weekends and Wednesdays.

For more information about Pauline visit www.paulinedevaney.com and for Artwave go to artwavefestival.org. pictured left: Pauline Devany, STOP

Horsham Artists Group Exhibition & Annual Art Fair in September and October 2019 marks Horsham’s ‘Year of Culture’

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n art terms the crescendo will be marked by the annual HAOS art fair over the weekend of 19th and 20th October, when the entire ground floor of the Horsham Council Offices in Parkside are turned over to around 50 local artists, ceramicists, textile makers, jewellers, up-cyclers and sculptors. Last year the event attracted over 2,000 visitors. Entry by ticket via the website or £2 on the door.

In this Year of Culture, as a special preview to the Art Fair, the gallery at the Capitol Theatre will host a group exhibition by works from 30 or so HAOS artists. The exhibition will run from 16th September to 26th October. Entry is free.

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There will be art to suit all tastes and it’s a chance for you to add to your collection or even start one.

Better still it’s a chance to talk to the artists themselves – most of them work alone in their studios and they’re always happy to meet art fans and chat about their work. www.horshamartistsopenstudios.co.uk below: Paul Baden, lattice wood carving; inset: Jill Mills, silver floral necklace

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Isle of Wight Arts Open Studios 12th to 22nd July inclusive

Anna Hayward making glass beads in her workshop

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sle of Wight Arts Open Studios 2019 is the major art event on the Island, from 12th to 22nd July inclusive, with up to 150 artists/craft designers/makers happily opening their doors at studios and venues across the Wight.

You are invited to meet the artists, see them working, enjoy an amazingly creative range of affordable art and crafts. You will find that special artwork to take away.

Artists, from established, widely exhibited, nationally and beyond, with exciting new artists, look forward to your visit. Entry is free to all venues, whether groups of artists in venues or solo artists in studios. You can be sure of a warm welcome wherever you go.

Visit parts of this beautiful Island from all the ferry ports. A free Yearbook shows you the location and profiles of the artists, with the dates they are open, to create your art trails. Obtainable from Tourist points, Red Funnel, libraries, National Trust, galleries, bookshops and some hotels. It can also be downloaded from the website or email info@isleofwightarts.com for a copy. www.isleofwightarts.com

Susie Olford

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rundel Gallery Trail gets closer; the pinnacle of Summer Art Trails in the south. Venues in Arundel provide the wonderful opportunity to leave the car, walk around the town taking in art, theatre, street entertainment and countless places to eat and drink. When Arundel is pedestrianised at weekends, cafés move into Tarrant Street to the joy of visitors.

My exhibits may be found in Arundel Library (western end of Tarrant Street), Saturday 17th August until Monday 26th August 2019; open at weekends from noon until 5.30pm, weekdays 2.30 until 5.30pm. Colour brochures are available mid-August, and artist and venue details are on the Arundel Gallery Trail website.

If the weather is good, I will display a few paintings outside as well as indoors, all adding to the festival feel. My world of colour in contemporary paintings displays soft blended work, or vibrant contrasts as you see in Summer Nights.

Susie Olford, Summer Nights

I’m working with some of the colours Turner used, and will display these at Arundel. A welcome awaits in the Library, BN18 9DT. smoart@btinternet.com www.arundelgallerytrail.co.uk

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Frances Knight

Arundel Gallery Trail 'Into the Light' Exhibition – 17th to 26th August Poetry, Paintings & Prosecco Evening – 23rd August, 7-9pm

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ontemporary landscape artist Frances Knight will open her studio for a summer exhibition of local landscapes and seascapes as part of the Arundel Gallery Trail from 17th to 26th August. 'Into the Light' Exhibition explores the effects of light, colour and structure in the landscape, and visitors will be able to view her latest paintings and chat to Frances about her work and process.

Frances will also be hosting a special Poetry, Paintings & Prosecco Evening together with the South Downs Poetry Festival on Friday 23rd August. Visitors can enjoy live poetry readings from Claire Best and music by Mike Carey amongst her latest exhibition of original oil paintings.

Current work can be viewed at the Nigel Rose Gallery in Brighton and the little art gallery in West Wittering.

For further information visit francesknight.com.

'Into the Light' Exhibition is at Top Floor Studio, The Victoria Institute, 10 Tarrant Street, Arundel, BN18 9DG. Open hours: 12-5.30pm on weekends and Bank Holiday Monday, 2-5.30pm on weekdays; entry is free.

Tickets for the Poetry, Paintings & Prosecco Evening cost £11.50 and are available to purchase from frances@ francesknight.com. above left: Frances Knight, Ripening Barley June Morning, oil on panel

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rundel Gallery time once again and I swear it has come around very quickly... or did I say that last year too!? Either way kickoff is on Saturday 18th August at midday.

As per every year the town puts on her Sunday best and shows off her wares. This year there is a new Gallery Trail committee so look out for some new ideas. For example the Victoria Institute plays host to a selling exhibiting of 30 x 30 cm artworks from all participating artists. Almost an anonymous presentation but maybe you will recognise your favourites there.

This year once again I am very happy to be sharing my space with the fabulous ring designer Victoria Lovell under her banner ‘Bauble and Hoop’ whose work is bold and beautiful. Each piece is unique and full of its own character.

I shall be showing my new paintings – some on linen or canvas and others on paper. As usual my

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subject matter varies, as does the scale, with both larger landscapes and smaller pieces on display.

We look forward to welcoming you!

Karinmoorhouseart.com baubleandhoop.co.uk www.arundelgallerytrail.co.uk

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hree friends are looking forward to exhibiting together at Venue 14 in the Arundel Youth Club at the 41st Arundel Gallery Trail. We are in a lovely old school hall above the Library. Our work is very different but as dedicated professionals who enjoy meeting the public, we have a good rapport. We look forward to meeting new and existing clients.

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and her imagination. Often described as evoking happiness and expressing character and humour. Her illustrative background is evident in her fine pen drawings which are a contrast to her colourful paintings.

Now working as a full-time artist, Andrea exhibits at various art events and select retail outlets. www.theartzoo.co.uk www.arundelgallerytrail.co.uk

Deborah Richards: Artist Printmaker & Sculptor Deborah’s works are semi-abstract and include unique oil on paper monotypes, paintings and sculpture. The work is described as romantic and expressive, capturing changing light, rhythm and movement. All works are inspired by her drawings made in situ, from the Downs to the sea and by the joy of material process. Her work can also be found at several private galleries in Sussex and Hampshire. www.deborahrichards.co.uk Lydia Foster: Jewellery Designer Lydia Foster is a locally based contemporary jewellery designer/maker. Her work is inspired by many things, especially pattern and form found in the natural world. Her designs often have an organic element, which leads to an individual and unusual style. Her aim is to make great quality, distinctive jewellery that looks and feels good to wear. www.glitterandtwisted.co.uk Andrea Martin: Artist Andrea’s artwork is inspired by nature, animals ingénu/e magazine – south downs and high weald : issue 25

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V Pease Jewellery Vee’s jewellery can be seen during Hampshire Open Studios 17th to 26th August www.hampshireopenstudios.org.uk

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ussex-based jeweller Vee Pease will again be taking part in Hampshire Open Studios. Her jewellery is made in silver and inspired by her love of nature and the outdoors. She is constantly experimenting with colour and uses a wide selection of semi precious stones and beads in her work.

She will be showing her jewellery together with her mother, Ferelith Molteno’s vibrant paintings and cards. They will be in a beautiful garden studio which is a new venue for this year. All details at www.hampshireopenstudios.org.uk

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Pauline Devaney Venue 114, Lewes House of Friendship, 208 High Street, Lewes Lewes Artwave Festival 17th August – 1st September Weekends and Wednesdays

Artists & makers trails across Lewes, Newhaven, Seaford and the surrounding villages 17 August - 1 September 2019 artwavefestival.org @artwavefestival

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theatre Two contrasting performances at

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rom 15th July to 7th September Josie Lawrence, Hyoie O’Grady and Amara Okereke star in Rodgers & Hammerstein's ‘Oklahoma!’ with original choreography by Agnes de Mille.

Handsome cowboy Curly McLain is head over spurs for farm owner Laurey Williams. But lonely ranchhand Jud Fry has his sinister sights set on her too.

And Laurey’s not the only girl with cowboy problems.

Ado Annie’s beau Will Parker is back from chasing steers in Kansas City, where he won the fifty dollars her father insists Will must have to marry her. But this irrepressible farm girl won’t be bought quite so easily.

Luckily for this love-struck crew of spirited ranchers and bronco busters, wise Aunt Eller is riding ahead of the herd.

With its glorious score and spirit of exuberant optimism, ‘Oklahoma!’ is the American musical by which all others are judged. Rodgers and Hammerstein broke new ground in perfectly integrating music and dance to tell a story and among the unforgettable songs are Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin’, The Surrey With The Fringe On Top and the show-stopper Oklahoma.

Following this from 21st September to 26th October is a complete contrast as John Simm and Dervla Kirwan star in Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

Much celebrated for his forthright bravery, Macbeth is a state hero. After the bloody defeat of a rebel army, he encounters a trio of strangers who predict that one day he will be King. Having delivered their ambiguous message, they vanish, leaving a mind cracked open.

Fearing that her husband lacks the vital drive to take charge of his fate, Lady Macbeth invokes her stronger nature to fulfil their destiny. The plan she hatches will trigger an uncontrollable train of events, hurtling two corrupted souls to the heart of darkness.

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tyranny and chaos. As appearances increasingly deceive, the nature of reality itself comes into question.

Visit www.cft.org.uk for a full view of the varied performances at the theatre this summer and autumn.

Rainbow Shakespeare

Back this summer at Worthing’s magical Highdown Gardens

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he troupe perform their acclaimed, exciting and understandable productions of two of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, which can be enjoyed by the whole family.

Twelfth Night, 16th to 21st July, is one of the world’s greatest comedies of love, madness and cross-dressing! Rainbow’s second production of Othello, 23rd to 28th July, is drama at its most thrilling. A great Moorish general serving the State of Venice marries a young heiress. Their innocent love is destroyed by the ‘green-eyed goddess’, manipulated by that greatest of all villains, Iago. Sword fights and feasting, romance and revenge, it could be a sixteenth century Game of Thrones!

This is Rainbow’s twentieth year of creating productions that have made many regular patrons say it is the high spot of their year. The Company make their audiences feel part of the performance. “I first saw Twelfth Night at the age of six at a school production,” remembers director Nick Young. “It inspired in me a love of Shakespeare which, as a director, I have aimed to share with audiences ever since.”

Picnic under the stars for an unmissable experience. Matinees on Saturdays and Sundays at 2.00pm. To book call 01903 206206 or visit worthingtheatres.co.uk.

clockwise from top left: Macbeth – John Simm and Dervla Kirwan; Rainbow Theatre; The Rude Mechanicals; Candoco

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Visit worthingtheatres.co.uk for further information.

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n 8th September at the Assembly Hall, Worthing Symphony Orchestra present the sensation that is Isata Kanneh-Mason, making her Worthing debut playing the brilliant Piano Concerto by Clara Schumann (née Wieck) a true heroine of 19th Century German romanticism. And on 17th September at the Assembly Hall there is the chance to hear Nicola Benedetti with the WSO perform Sibelius’s aweinspiring Violin Concerto in D minor.

Candoco Dance Company created a sensation last year when its contemporary dancers performed to over 10 million people on the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing. Renowned for its profound, boundarypushing work, Candoco’s company of disabled and non-disabled dancers brings work by three very different UK-based artists to Worthing on Saturday 5th October at the Connaught Theatre.

The evening will consist of two live pieces and a short film. Candoco Dance Company’s Unspoken Spoken, directed and choreographed by Fin Walker, exposes the potential that exists when we dare to challenge the rules. A captivating story told through British Sign Language, voice and movement, Unspoken Spoken is performed by a cast of disabled and non-disabled dancers.

Some younger, some older, they ask us to look deeper, to explore our own boundaries.

On 17th October the Pavilion Theatre hosts the BBC Big Band who will be joined by Georgie Fame for this very special concert, one of only a select number of UK concert dates. With more than twenty albums and fourteen hit singles including the Number 1s ‘Yeh Yeh’, ‘Get Away’ and’ The Ballad

hat does it take to achieve your dream?

The Rudes are on the road again visiting villages and towns across Southern England with their summer outdoor shows.

This summer they will be touring with ‘Ikarus Inc’, a play about what it takes to achieve YOUR dream.

The Rudes toured it first in 2010 and it has proved to be one of audiences’ favourites. With both the UK and America in turmoil, politically revisiting this story of

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In those early days, Andrés Segovia was a particular influence on Miloš and the latter part of the programme demonstrates his subsequent devotion to the music of Latin America.

Concluding the programme, Miloš showcases his latest project with the music of the Beatles.

For more information on these and other events at Capitol visit www.thecapitolhorsham.com. left: Miloš; photo by Margaret Malandruccolo

hopes and dreams – set in the 1950’s in the fictitious Indiana town of Dreamville – is very timely.

The show will tour to fifty-one venues in Sussex and Kent as well as Dorset and Surrey throughout the summer. Visit www.therudemechanicaltheatre.co.uk for all the dates and details.

Two sublime performances at Horsham’s Capitol Theatre

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fter the sell-out performance of Swan Lake this year, Russian National Ballet returns to the UK to enchant you with the delightful production of The Nutcracker on the 1st October.

The Nutcracker is a charming and kindly fairy tale is one of the jewels of Tchaikovsky's repertoire. Prepare to enter a magical new world – the nutcracker in this ballet may be a handsome prince in disguise.

The original Christmas story tells of Marie, a sad little girl, whose godfather, Drosselmeier, gives her a Nutcracker doll as a present on Christmas Eve. In her lively imagination it turns into a prince and the magic starts. The ballet is the ultimate fairy-tale where goodness and beauty triumph.

This eternal seasonal favourite is an ideal introduction to audiences of any age to the magic that is classical ballet. For more information on the company visit www.russian-national-ballet.com.

A few days later at the Capitol sees MILOŠ: The Voice of the Guitar arrive on 5th October.

This concert is a journey through music and time. It uses the classical guitar and its unique voice as a vehicle, showcasing full range of colours and influences, through the works and musicians that defined it.

Familiar composers will reflect Miloš’s classical training at the Royal Academy of Music, whilst other pieces will showcase the link to his early training in Montenegro and his interest in the guitar as an instrument that is an intrinsic part of the Mediterranean

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Applause Rural Touring Outdoors Summer Season

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his summer look out for mischievous cavemen, a giant dodo and cake baking birds, participatory painting, ping-pong playing dancers, a 17ft tall tree and a shark! Even a world record attempt! All the seven shows this season are interactive, family friendly and will entertain and delight.

Sally Lampit, Outdoors Touring Manager said “I am delighted that the seven fabulous shows we have commissioned are touring across the region this summer enlivening local fetes and festivals with exciting performances.”

For one of the events Applause Rural Touring have co-commissioned performer Eric MacLennan to create an outdoor show inspired by JWM Turner and the forthcoming exhibition at Turner Contemporary ‘Seaside: Photographed’. The Open Air Drawing Room and the other six shows will tour fetes and festivals across Kent and Sussex this summer as part of the Applause Outdoors season.

Visit www.applause.org.uk/whats-on for full info of locations and dates in Sussex and Kent.

Comedy Cavemen, Applause Rural Touring

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Chantry Dance Chantry Dance return to Horsham this autumn with a sensational new dance show This year, following the success of their previous productions of ‘The Sandman’ and ‘Dracula’, Chantry Dance is back at the Capitol Theatre on 8th October with their new production of ‘Alice – Wonderland Through the Looking Glass’ – an inventive sequel to Lewis Caroll’s famous stories.

Alice is an aspiring writer working in a tea-shop. Overworked and underpaid, life seemed more exciting when she was a child. The Looking Glass remains in Wonderland as a portal to our world which the Queen of Hearts crosses when chasing a croquet ball. Entering our world, she develops a dastardly plan to seize power by opening a casino where she can create an Army of Cards.

Hatter and the Wonderland gang pursue the Queen, and on their journey they are delighted to find Alice again! Together, they resolve to stop the Queen. Oh, but we forgot to mention, the Queen has a Jabberwocky in the casino basement.

The show stars former Principal of San Francisco Ballet and BGT finalist Shannon Parker as Alice, and is choreographed by Paul Chantry and Rae Piper, choreographers of

the Olivier-nominated Gangsta Granny, Billionaire Boy and Horrible Histories.

Visit www.thecapitolhorsham.com or www. chantrydancecompany.org for further details.

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VIENNA FESTIVAL BALLET presents two classic ballets

The Nutcracker Theatre Royal, Winchester Wednesday 9th October, 7.00pm Box Office: 01962 840440

Camberley Theatre, Camberley Thursday 10th October, 7.30pm Box Office: 01276 707600

Clair Hall, Haywards Heath Friday 11th October, 7.30pm Box Office: 01444 455440

Hazlitt Theatre, Maidstone Sunday 10th November, 2.00pm Box Office: 01622 758611

Medina Theatre, Newport, Isle of Wight Wednesday 11th December, 7.00pm Box Office: 01983 823884

Snow White Regis Centre, Bognor Regis

Saturday 5th October, 2.00pm & 5.30pm Box Office: 01243 861010

Theatre Royal, Winchester Tuesday 8th October, 7.00pm Box Office: 01962 840440

Chequer Mead Theatre, East Grinstead

Wednesday 16th October, 2.30pm & 7.00pm Box Office: 01342 302000

Stag Community Arts Centre, Sevenoaks Tuesday 22nd October, 7.30pm Box Office: 01732 450175

White Rock Theatre, Hastings Thursday 7th November, 7.30pm Box Office: 01424 462288

The Lights, Andover

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Vienna Festival Ballet The Nutcracker and Snow White this autumn Classical ballet takes centre stage this autumn when the highly acclaimed Vienna Festival Ballet bring their beautiful and romantic ballets to venues across our region.

Be swept away on a magical adventure in one of the most famous classical ballets of all time – The Nutcracker. Set to Tchaikovsky’s sumptuous score, the tale tells the story of Clara and her enchanted nutcracker doll. See Clara and the Nutcracker combat the Mouse King, and join the Sugar Plum Fairy and her Cavalier on a wonderful journey to a kingdom made entirely of sweets.

World class choreography propels the timeless fairytale of Snow White and answers the question: who is the fairest one of all? Based on the traditional Grimm brothers’ story, this ballet incorporates all the important elements – a beautiful girl, an enchanted mirror, a poisoned apple, while hip-hopping dwarves help Snow White find her Prince Charming.

Whether you are a ballet buff, an interested observer, or you have a keen beginner in the family, make a point of booking tickets to experience the vitality of Vienna Festival Ballet.

For dates and performance times see www.viennafestivalballet.com top right: Clara and nutcracker doll; right: Snow White and the Huntsman

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Three diverse events for Worthing this autumn Wow! Worthing’s Coastal Events is really pulling out the stops this autumn with three fabulous events.

First off in September Dr John Cooper Clarke arrives at the Assembly Hall with ‘The Luckiest Guy Alive’ Tour. I’m a huge fan of this man, a true cultural icon, who arguably single-handedly changed the face of modern poetry in the 1970s. I sat in the front row at his last performance in Worthing a couple of years ago and I may have led the standing ovation he received, as I leapt out of my seat as he concluded his act. Here’s a few short shots of humour from the man’s pen: “Poverty – the one thing money can't buy” “To convey one’s mood in seventeen syllables is very diff” “I embraced the minimalist lifestyle. It's been a long road. I got it down to a George Foreman Grill and a bottle of disinfectant” Then October sees ‘Zed’s Dead: A Tarantino Royale’ – Pulp Fiction Screening at the Connaught Cinema followed by Zed’s Dead Event at St Paul’s Arts Centre.

In 1992, Quentin Tarantino changed the cinematic landscape forever when he released his first film, Reservoir Dogs. I remember seeing the film with a friend when it was first released. At first we weren’t sure what it was; a modern version of a heist story, a straightforward cops and robbers story, a black comedy? As the film progressed we began laughing at certain parts, not because we were becoming critical of the movie, we were actually genuinely amused by the extremely dark aspects the plot kept taking and the incredible ‘jive’ talk of the characters. The discussions between the gang, so well written by Tarantino, are achingly funny, while the scenes going back and forth in time glue one to the plot. It certainly was a ground-breaking and very influential film.

Since then, his following seven films (and additional projects, writings, and collaborations) have cemented him as one of history's most influential film directors.

To mark the 25th Anniversary release of what is widely considered his most ground-breaking and influential movie, Pulp Fiction, Coastal Events invite you to a Royale celebration of all things QT. They have hooked up with the Connaught Cinema to show Pulp Fiction on the big screen and then it’ll be time to cross the road to St Paul’s Arts Centre, where things will be getting hot, dark, loud and racy –

just the way the man himself would want it. Want to know what to expect? The unexpected. Just ask yourself what QT would want to see, hear, taste and touch and you’ll be along the right lines. So dust off your black suits and ties, yellow catsuits, bridal gowns and your shiniest gimp costumes, then grab your tickets for what will be one inglorious night.

Oh, and this great threesome of entertainment culminates in December as the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain arrive.

But more about that in the next issue!

Visit www.coastaleventsltd.com for all the details.

top: Dr John Cooper Clarke; below: John Traviolta and Uma Thurman dance in Pulp Fiction

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The Jive Aces present

Summertime Swing Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, 4th August, 2pm

Joining The Jive Aces this year are international jazz singer and BBC Radio 2 presenter Clare Teal, West-End star Cassidy Janson, singer-songwriter and son of Skiffle legend Lonnie, Peter Donegan and Jim and Serena from Bamboozle as well as DJs Swing Out Si and Eight-Beat Mac. All the profits from tickets have gone to various charities over the years and will continue to do so.

2019 marks the 15th anniversary of Summertime Swing and with guests such as Clare Teal and Cassidy Jansen, this anniversary year looks like it could be the best ever! Clare has won many awards including British Jazz Singer of the year in 2005, 2007, 2015 and 2017 and BBC Jazz Singer of the Year in 2006.

Cassidy has already a wealth of acting and singing roles behind her and in 2015 she took over the role of Carole King in the West End production of ‘Beautiful: The Carole King Musical’, while in 2017 she teamed up with Beverley Knight and Amber Riley to form a musical theatre supergroup, The Leading Ladies.

Visit www.jiveaces.com for further information. right: Cassidy Janson; below: Seth Lakeman

Zaza Music presents

Seth Lakeman & Special Guest St George's Church, Brighton, 8th August

Seth Lakeman took a break from the Robert Plant musical juggernaut in autumn 2018 to release his ninth studio album ‘The Well Worn Path’ and head out on tour around the UK with a new band line-up.

It’s a return to a no-nonsense, organic, classic folk-rock approach with hints of Fairport Convention, Neil Young, Nick Cave and Billy Bragg – plus Lakeman’s trademark foot-stomping, fiddle bowshredding and soaring vocals. Seth brought in top producer Ben Hillier and along with long-time collaborator Ben Nicholls on upright and electric bass, he was joined by new boys Kit Hawes on electric and acoustic guitar and drummer Evan Jenkins. One of the finest female folk voices Kathryn Roberts also contributes sublime backing vocals to the album.

Since the Mercury Prize nominated “Kitty Jay” (recorded in his kitchen for £300), the follow-up gold selling “Freedom Fields” and his last, highly acclaimed offering, “Word of Mouth”, Seth has relentlessly pushed his musical boundaries and those of folk and roots music.

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The Story of

GUITAR HEROES My favourite band in the late 1960s was the Yardbirds who, at one time or another, featured three guitarists that went onto become rock icons. These and many others are celebrated in a show touring the UK for 2019.

The Story of Guitar Heroes is an awe-inspiring, dynamic show which transports theatre audiences through time: from the 1950’s with artists such as Chuck Berry and Hank Marvin, to modern day players such as Brian May and Steve Vai and includes gifted legends such as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page, to name but a few!

The show’s extraordinarily talented and versatile musicians use over 30 guitars to recreate and accurately reproduce the sound and ambience of each guitar hero. Now in its fifth year, The Story of

Guitar Heroes has become increasingly popular not only with many guitar players and musicians, but with music lovers and families of all ages, and it’s coming to a theatre near you! www.storyofguitarheroes.com

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Barnett’s of Wadhurst An independent bookshop with lots to offer

Barnettts is everything you could ever want in a bookshop. Stepping over the threshold of this Grade II listed building you are drawn in by the volume and variety of books and the friendly relaxed atmosphere.

As well as a wide range of books, Barnett’s stocks audio books, classical music CDs, stationery, gifts

and original, tasteful greetings cards, wrapping paper, travel guides and a range of atlases and maps. Among the books are literary fiction, classics to modern fiction and crime and thrillers, from a diverse range of authors. There is also an extensive range of history, biography, cookery, poetry, science, politics, philosophy and other non-fiction, including local history (in conjunction with the Wadhurst History Society) and local maps and other reference materials.

Barnett's are passionate about their thriving and attractive children's section, which includes a range of young adult fiction. The bookshop loves helping young people to foster a love of books and reading and has a children’s loyalty card scheme. Ask in the shop for a loyalty card, collect a stamp for each children's book you buy and you can select a free book (up to the value of £10) when you have collected six stamps.

Coming up in September – Literary Lounge Barnett's Literary Lounge is an opportunity to meet leading authors and to hear them discuss their work in an intimate but relaxed setting over a glass of wine and refreshments. Attendance is by ticket only – available in advance from the bookshop.

Note: all events start at the bookshop for informal chat before moving on to the venue. Some exciting events are lining up for after the summer holidays – keep checking the website for updates. www.barnettsbooks.com

Coming this autumn, a collection of Sussex Christmas Stories

BARNETT’S of WADHURST Independent Bookseller

Refurbished dedicated children's area, extensive stock of children's books, both new releases & classics Classical music cds and music scores · Book tokens Children's loyalty cards · Out-of-print books obtained · Greetings cards · Regular author talks

We're friendly, knowledgeable and efficient! available to order soon through bookshops or from Amazon, watch this space!

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Trip

by Steve Cook "A tale of the psychedelic apocalypse and one man who thinks he's immune."

Trip is another foray into a darkly hilarious dystopian alternate reality from the pen of Sussex writer Steve Cook. I say 'alternate reality' but, witnessing the madness surrounding Brexit, it could just as easily be a prophecy of some unhinged future here on good old planet Earth.

Main protagonist Dave, a painter and decorator, watches with increasing anxiety as people around him fall foul of an epidemic which renders them removed from reality – in the same way that someone who has taken LSD is removed from reality. The symptoms are as random as you might imagine: Dave's neighbour's cat is mistaken for a mammoth by his afflicted owner; a fashionable trend for Half-Beards; and, most alarming of all, The Suspension of Breathing Act. As the only one immune from this alarming malady

Dave, with Jessie his significant other, attempts to navigate his usual daily round, clinging on to the remnants of his ordinary life while others around him succumb gleefully to the creeping madness.

As is so often the case with Steve Cook's novels, the laugh-out-loud humour sugar coats a darker satire. Social commentary has rarely been this hilarious.

Available from Amazon and www.steve-cook.com, where you can find details of his other works.

Three Round Towers

by Beverley Elphick

It is 1795 and young Esther Coad, the daughter of an apothecary, is left destitute when her parents are taken by the Great Sickness. Her joy at being given a home by distant relatives is short-lived when she realises it comes at a cost, as she has been taken in as a source of cheap labour rather than a member of the family.

Her life takes a turn for the better when another young maid is employed and Esther at last has a friend.

Tragedy strikes again, however, and Esther once more finds herself in a terribly vulnerable position.

Although intelligent and somewhat educated, she is pitted against the prejudices and pitfalls of a society that takes a dim view of a single young woman trying to make her way in the world, let alone one who is trying to clear her name of heinous false accusations.

Fearing for her life and that of the baby in her care she throws herself on the mercy of kind strangers. Will her luck finally change?

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press gangs and smugglers, of transportation and the workhouse.

Beverley Elphick writes with an evident affinity for the area, drawing you into the story, incorporating everyday details, quotes and recipes from the time into the narrative, adding to its authenticity.

I was captivated by Three Round Towers and eagerly anticipate Esther's unfolding journey in her fight for survival in the sequel, Retribution.

Three Round Towers is available from the East Grinstead Bookshop and from Beverley's website www.beverleyelphick.com where you can find out more about Beverley and her other work.

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Words to be Spoken

by J. L. Dean

'Words to be Spoken' is a collection of dramatic monologues, sketches and a play, for use in auditions, workshops and public performance.

Each piece examines an emotional truth, tragic or comic, and provides material for nuanced and skillful performances.

If I were an actor I would love to get my teeth into this collection. Intelligently written with great sensitivity and impeccable timing, it has huge scope for getting an audience in the palm of your hand.

The wide variety of themes range from gutwrenching tragedy and dark humour to lighter notes that yet have an edge. Dean borrows cleverly from history and Greek myth and draws on Shakespearian idioms yet there is nothing 'bookish' about her treatment of these classics. There is a contemporary parody of Lady Macbeth; Juliet's nurse muses on the past and what might have been; and in the clever 'Fair Nymph' we meet Hamlet's Ophelia, bringing to mind Tom Stoppard's account of in-the-wings action in 'Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead'. Fair Nymph imagines what might have happened had Ophelia escaped death.

There is the imagined confession of Jesus Barrabas and the thoughts of a chaplain in the Great War – both glimpses into a few moments of each man's life,

Armchair Theatre

by Roddy Phillips A selection of autobiographical columns 2011-2018 "Happily I've never stopped doing stupid things so I've always had plenty of material to work which. No barrel was ever scraped during the writing of these columns."

You know how, with some books, you feel as though you have to be set up to read them; in your favourite spot – a cosy armchair, or a sunny corner of the garden – with your beverage of choice, you know the kind of thing I mean. Well Armchair Theatre is not one of those books.

Armchair Theatre is the kind of book you can read anywhere. On the beach, on the bus, Tube or train (you'll keep fellow passengers entertained with occasional chuckles), in the bath, at the dentist, in the car while waiting for the other half to finish shopping, even, dare I say, on the loo.

With a flair for charming self effacement and no scruples about airing slightly grubby laundry,

and both utterly moving.

Dean's sharp intellect is by no means restricted to historical events, real or imagined. Contemporary and topical themes are visited in 'Bounced', a scene outside a seedy nightclub, and 'He's Gone' and 'It's Too Late Now', two monologues that deal with the subject of knife crime.

Of the chilling 'In my Hands' the subtitle says it all – 'Lover or Stalker?'.

The monologue 'Three Little Words' and the 'Head in a Bag' sketch are bleakly funny, while 'My Best Side' and 'New Shoes' take pathos further than an Alan Bennett sketch. The one-act play 'Food for Thought' is sweetly funny, while The 'Empty Box Sketch' could have come from the pen of the League of Gentlemen team, only more subtle.

For me the most powerful and breathtaking piece was The Anchoress, which conveyed more in what was not said than in the words themselves. A challenge indeed for a performer.

Although these words are meant to be spoken, this book works very well as a collection of flash fiction.

Available from Amazon.

Roddy Phillips regales us with a catalogue of anecdotes and escapades ranging from the hilarious to the cringeworthy and skillfully makes the most everyday, even banal, occurrence an entertaining spectacle. The mental pictures conjured up by his account of changing the bed linen had me laughing out loud.

Battling with nocturnal hallucinations, an encounter with a naked cyclist, and columns entitled The Phantom Raspberry Blower and Old Hotlips – this is a book which is very easy to pick up, but difficult to put down.

It is available through his website or from Amazon.

Roddy Phillips has contributed to major publications and media. He runs very popular creative writing workshops in East Sussex. For more information about Roddy and his work visit www.roddyphillips.com

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A Song for Camelot

Awake!

For morning draws the sword of sleep From the cold unyielding grip of Dreaming stone.

King and mage now stand without the gates; The pound of staff and stave ‘Pon ancient oak resounds.

So raise the raven and the nightingale To madrigal and round, Where, each-to-each unknown, In silence faked their sleep alone.

Awake!

The sound of song reverberates, Let slip once more from silent tongues, Like the sun returns its touch to shadowed strands, Like the folded hands of smitten heroes stirs and Strokes to peace tired dogs of war, Then deftly turns the virgin page.

Spruce fingers now afire un-spring The lock of lost conviction and palliate The hex of might-have-been desires, While the sweep of the quickened brush atones For the blank canvas of the slumbering sage.

Awake!

You have spun epics for heroes in your time, Your tapestries adorned the towers of kings With odysseys of impudent design.

You strummed the lyre, raised the totem that inspired Mariners to sail dream-driven To horizons baited by Aegean quests.

And, yes, you braved Medusa’s scowl, The storm’s howl, where the glowering ocean Towered broad-shouldered over the listing deck.

You wrote your songs in runes, Their tunes sung in taverns, Carried in the raven’s beak To stay the slap of Odin’s petulant hand.

You stroked that hand as it steered The floundering Pinto into safe havens, Breaching new shores behind the mind’s eye.

You brought cargoes of dream, sagas of revelation To unmade harbours on Asgard’s brooding shore And buried your hoard for those as yet unborn.

And more!

In your time you have breathed Validation on inspiration’s guttering flame, Taken sweet morning to the diffident Muse And coaxed her to waken.

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Your own quest would some poet’s stave befit, Some song like this, for you have forayed Forsaken shores of time’s tempestuous shifts, Flanked by the breaking storm on every hand.

As you plied the islands men of wit Unwitting of themselves have made, How many futile songs were never heard, How much treasure never graced the oft-turned page Or wisdom uttered out of earshot slipped The corner of the up-turned eye?

Like a Valkyrie you have shaken the poet And frog-marched him to pathways of his fame, Yet how much unread and un-adored has come to rest Upon the forlorn headstones of forgotten graves?

The weeping Shades guard their treasures well, These gifts bequeathed by Midas to the widowed Muse, Who despairs of some arcane magic scant begun And counting coin in exile, turns blind-eyed to the sun.

With anguished cries in tragic ways We fell each one upon the bard’s still singing blade, Yet here stands Camelot inured to folly and despair, Glimmering in the twilight, shimmering like The Sultan’s towers in the desert air.

Now, deep within her dawn-lit bowers, The pen dragon stirs, shakes off the scales of sleep; The warrior-poet unsheathes his quill To bring the rescue of maidens, The salvation of cities and of citadels To the world’s as yet unwritten page.

What hath the power to blast that hopeful breach Into the stalwart ramparts of despair If not th’explosive alchemy of ideas?

Once more then, into that hopeful breach dear friends, once more!

–by Steve Cook This poem is not included in my published books. It was written as the opening to a Shakespearian style play about King Arthur provisionally entitled "Merlinus Ambrosius".

The play is still work in progress.

Steve created the project 'Poetry for Peace', in which he undertook to write a poem every day for a year. The result was a glorious mixture of styles and genres, and is testament to his wit and imagination, not to mention sheer bloody-minded determination to see the project through despite distractions. This prolific output can be seen on his website alongside his other writings.

For this and more information about Steve and his work go to www.steve-cook.com

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Studio 11 Aware that in business you have to keep developing in order to attract new custom, Studio 11 teaching team Christine Chester (Textiles) and Roz Nathan (Drawing & Painting) have been reaching out and creating new opportunities.

Christine has asked four internationally renowned textile tutors to come and teach for 4/5-day intense courses during 2020. The reputation of the studio is growing and attracts artists such as Sue Lawty, 62 Group members Sian Martin and Debbie Lyddon, along with German artist Ines Seidel. Most of the guest tutors at Studio 11 use the coastal environment as inspiration for their courses, and this gives an extra dimension to these intensive retreats. Find these courses on the Textile Retreats page of the studio 11 website.

Meanwhile Roz has been branching out teaching wildlife art on safari. Whilst not strictly a Studio 11 enterprise, this is an exciting development for those who come to work with Roz doing wildlife art at the studio.

Of course, all the basics of weekly art courses and monthly textile courses are still running. The combination of Roz working Tuesdays through to Thursdays every week offering diverse courses from drawing for beginners to abstract processes, and Christine working Friday through to Monday teaching a range of monthly classes in dyeing/printing for beginners to development classes for more confident students, keep the studio busy all week.

The light and airy studio creates a lovely environment which has increasingly become the focus of a growing community of artists who enjoy learning and working together. Why not come and join them. studio11eastbourne@yahoo.com www.studio11eb.co.uk top: textile studio; below: Soft frame screen, Screens4Printing

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They are easy to handle being lightweight; easy to store being low profile; and easy to use with smaller squeegees than normal, with an image already ‘burned’ into the mesh.

Screens4printing (previously known as Thermofax Screens) is a small company in Eastbourne run by three textile artists who have been using these screens in their own work for many years. Sarah, Christine and Christina bought the company last year when the original owner decided to retire. They have a detailed knowledge of how to print with the screens and Christine also teaches how to work with them, along with other textile print processes at her teaching studio in the town centre.

The team have been producing screens for nearly a year now, and have a large library of stock images to choose from ranging from seedheads, butterflies and bees, to textures of rock, bark, peeling paint and drain covers! There is something to please everyone.

However, the real magic of thermal screens comes from producing custom designs from your own black & white imagery. You can make marks using your favourite tool, do drawings or rubbings, design patterns and logos, create vector drawings on the computer, then upload them to produce a screen which you can use hundreds of times (depending on what you are putting through the screen to make the print).

There is even a facility for printing photographic and greyscale imagery resulting in many tones being produced on one layer of screen print.

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Pottery – Materials Week with Alison Sandeman

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This season also sees a strong emphasis on the environment with a special materials week, Earth Matters (14th-16th February) which explores sustainable, natural and found materials. Learn how to make paints from natural materials and dyes from everyday kitchen waste, dig your own local clay and make jewellery from found objects.

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Step up the Teaching Entrepreneurs’ Association, or TEA for short! An on-line membership platform that offers modules called Teatorials, it consists of a video, workbook and quiz on different aspects of teaching adults. You can learn at your own pace, in your own space, picking and mixing modules to meet your needs. You can build the modules towards the Award in Education and Training, a nationally recognised entry level qualification for teaching adults, which helps to access adult and further education colleges. There’s also a virtual staff room to chat and network, sharing your successes and challenges. We’ve even got our own Agony Aunt to troubleshoot your teaching problems.

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hands on art tuition Creative courses and workshops can offer a space to clear your head, focus and relax at the same time.

This was evident when we were at Grist Wood in the Spring where Martin Brockman was teaching an intrepid group of adults and one child how to make a Withy Deer Sculpture. We were working amongst freshly coppiced hazel, if we needed more, we could just go and cut some. There were no distractions other than keeping the campfire going, admiring the wood anemones and listening to the birds.

Grist Wood have offered to host another Withy Deer Workshop on the 2nd November. The Saturday before, 26th October, we will be holding a Wood Carving Workshop in Wilderness Wood. This is a fabulous family friendly venue with all the facilities (café, toilets, parking) and a working chestnut coppice woodland. There is always a lovely atmosphere there and with an infectious can-do buzz about the place.

In the pipeline, on 9th November Blackbird Arts are holding a Woodblock Printing Workshop in Isfield Village Hall

and Wilderness Wood have invited us back for a Withy Deer Workshop on the 16th November.

For more details visit www.blackbirdarts.co.uk above: Poised for action (Wilderness Wood); left: Mother & daughter making a deer (Grist Wood)

Debbie Smith Jewellery Workshops I’m happiest in my wonderful workshop in Lindfield!

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I’m either designing and making commissioned bespoke jewellery to order, or teaching and inspiring others to create their own beautiful pieces of hand crafted silver jewellery.

I trained as a Jeweller at Sir John Cass School of Art, and worked in the London jewellery trade for 16 years before moving to Sussex. I’ve always been lucky enough to have my own studio workshop where I can switch off and be creative!

Back in 2006 after completing a PGCE, I decided to open my workshop and held a weekly silver class for beginners. Thirteen years on, I’m teaching four days a week and still love the buzz of seeing people’s ideas come to life. People often say to me that they would love to have a go at making jewellery but they are not artistic, my response is to tell them to come along and give it a go! The workshop has become a hub to learn a new skill, make new friends and create wonderful pieces of Jewellery. www.thejewellery-workshop.co.uk

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THE BASEMENT 93 Artisan Lifestyle & Gallery A Hidden Treasure in Steyning

The Basement 93 opened its doors in November last year, exhibiting work from both local artists and artisan crafts from further afield.

It’s ethos is to support and showcase small independent artists with beautiful products made by hand. Many pieces have a story behind the design and materials used. Metals, glass and wood are often from sustainable sources or reused and remodelled into beautiful and interesting pieces.

Situated in a unique listed building, the shop is divided into a retail area with products from Nkuku, Norse, Twigsters and Fiona Walker, which leads through into an area retailing Small Batch coffee, chocolate from Guppy’s and jewellery from designers such as Emma Aitchison. The Art Gallery at the rear of the shop exhibits paintings, textiles, ceramics and sculpture from mainly local artists.

The Basement 93 can be found on Facebook or in real life at 93 High Street, Steyning, BN44 3RE.

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a moment in the sun at Worthing I found myself in Worthing a few weeks ago, and it being a beautiful summer day, I headed down to Worthing’s east beach to have a bite to eat and take advantage of the sea view offered by Coast Café Beach Bar. Newly refurbished and with a new menu Coast is perfect for a healthy brunch or a lazy lunch, coffee, homemade cakes, and if you have simple tastes like me, they do the most perfect chips in the world!

The café is very dog-friendly and four-legged friends feature heavily on their Instagram page and it’s also perfect for kids, being just around the corner from the swimming pool, splashpad and playground area.

Besides the creativity that spills out from the East Beach Art Studios that adjoin the café, a treat to visit at any time of year, the café is also hosting various events through the summer under the banner of the ‘3rd summer of love’. An appropriate title considering this year heralds anniversaries of two of the most famous musical festivals from the original era of

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And so I dined on those marvellous chips, drank my coffee, people-watched for a while, took a stroll along the beach, caught up with some correspondence and then headed back to the ebb and flow of life, which seemed to have somehow taken on an indistinct and misty glow following my sojourn.

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Coda Two festivals, a sculptor and some musings It could be said that modern music festivals such Coachella in the USA and Glastonbury in the UK, to name but two, have to some degree abandoned their legacy, their roots of course being firmly in the anti-establishment movement. Coachella has become somewhat of a fashionistas paradise, while Glastonbury’s recent headliners such as Ed Sheeran and Beyoncé couldn’t be more mainstream.

Both in the USA and the UK those roots go back to 1969, when pop, rock and folk music were still evolving, genres were interweaving and most songwriters still had something to say about life, the universe and everything. Contrast that with the current crop of performers, usually female with overproduced songs, telling us all about their failed love affairs and delivered wearing only decorated underwear to an adoring audience of teens and twenty and thirty somethings who should know better. That’s an awful long way from “I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shotgun in the sky, turning into butterflies above our nation.”

Let’s wind the clock back 50 years. The summer of 1969, two years after the so-called Summer of Love, saw two music festivals once again capture the essence of ‘Flower Power’, the phrase created by Beat Poet Alan Ginsberg to describe the counter-culture movement of the 1960s. Sadly these festivals also marked 80

Guy Portelli with his IOW 1968/69 mosaic in progress; below: Woodstock poster

the beginning of the end of the idealistic dreams of the times and as the 1970s evolved, the overuse of drugs, absorption by the mainstream and unrestrained libertinism gradually dispersed the zeitgeist.

I would add however that many of the social, political and cultural concepts which saw their genesis back then have gradually pervaded our way of life, causing many changes, some obvious and some more subtle, but most being arguably of a constructive nature.

The two festivals in question are the famous Woodstock Festival, billed as ‘3 Days of Peace & Music’, held between 15th to 19th August 1969 at Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York, and our very own Isle of Wight Festival, held over a weekend two weeks later, which saw Bob Dylan appear again for the first time in three years after his motor cycle accident. Woodstock gathered over half a million to its bosom at the height of the anti-Vietnam war and Civil Rights protests, while the 1969 IoW festival was ground-breaking for the UK. Besides Dylan performing, there was an incredible line-up which included The Band, The Who, The Moody

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Blues, Free, Joe Cocker et al, and drew 150,000 fans to Woodside Bay on the east coast of the Island.

Momentous times back then, and this being the 50th anniversary of both festivals, they are being commemorated by two amazing events. ‘Woodstock 50’ is occurring at Watkins Glen, NY from 16th to 19th August and ‘All Wight Now’ is occurring on 31st August on the Isle of Wight.

Woodstock 50, besides featuring present day artists such as The Killers, Jay-Z, Robert Plant and the like, incredibly also includes some of the original performers from the 1969 festival such as Melanie Safka, Santana and Country Joe MacDonald. I’m sure if and when Country Joe once again delivers the famous ‘Fish Cheer’ (google it if unfamiliar) the audience will go ballistic!

Not to be outdone, All Wight Now not only has a great line-up which includes many bands and individuals with a 1960s heritage, many of whom performed at the original festival, but also has sculptor Guy Portelli creating sculptures inspired by pop icons, with two projects directly linked to the IoW Festivals. Many Festival artists from the original 1968 to 1970 events have contributed outlines of their hands for this project. The IoW festival of 1970 saw Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Miles Davis and a host of others play and Guy is collecting handprints of musicians who played at the festivals from 1968 to 1970 and they are then being mosaicked into place. This is requiring an enormous amount of research, chasing about and meeting lots of interesting people.

For example, Guy met with legendary double bass player Danny Thompson to take a tracing of his handprint. Danny played with Pentangle in 1969 and 1970 and subsequently has played with many musicians of many genres. The work for 1968 shows Jack, Grace & Jorma from Jefferson Airplane, Chris Spedding, Arthur Brown, Phil May & Dick Taylor from the Pretty Things, Ashley Hutchings and Richard Thompson, Will Malone and John Bachini from Orange Bicycle and Roy Wood of the Move. Guy has around 50 hand prints collected so far, including other big names such as Jethro Tull, Paul Rodgers and Donovan. The panel was back stage at this year’s IOW festival in June, where Guy collected more hand prints for a later IOW panel covering 2002 to 2020. Guy has also created a sculpture of Bob Dylan at the festival and the hope is that a museum will be built dedicated

from top: Coachella festival; Grace Slick of Jefferson Airplane at Woodstock; IOW festival 1969

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coda to the IOW festival.

Although I was 18 at the time, I didn’t make it to either festival. But Woodstock of course became an award winning film, which I devoured hungrily many times at the cinema in 1970. For a brief period I and many others did actually think we were stardust and the times they were actually a-changing.

Joni Mitchell didn’t make it to Woodstock either, but it didn’t stop her writing a wonderful song about it, after being told about it by her then suitor, Graham Nash. As a tribute to those people and times here is an extract from the lyrics to Joni’s anthem to Woodstock.

Peace and love to you all!

"Maybe it’s the time of year, or maybe it’s the time of man - and I don't know who I am but lifes for learning We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden By the time I got to Woodstock they were half a million strong and everywhere there were songs and celebration And I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shotgun in the sky, turning into butterflies above our nation We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden" –Joni Mitchell © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC

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