Cover - Viva Lewes

Art & About
What’s on in Lewes’ Galleries this month (cont)
Our cover artist Peter Messer
will joining 40 or so others in an
exciting exhibition in the Star
Gallery (Castle Ditch Lane)
which Cabbages runs from October 30th and Kings
to November 17th. Curator
Hayley Mills has close links with
India, and she devised the show
having fallen in love with Indian
miniature art. She decided to
invite a number of artists she has
contact with, from Sussex and
from London as well as select
graduates from the University
of Brighton, to produce original
art works for the show, which is
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Mid-winter, says Bill Collison from Bill’s, is when cabbages come
into their own. Cheap and versatile, they are happy to mix it up with
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entitled ‘Stardust’. The only limits
she gave them was that the works
had to be slightly smaller than
A4 size. As well as Peter Messer,
artists such as Marguerite Horner,
Hamish Black, Harold Mockford,
Tom Walker, Julian Bell, Caroline
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