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PowderMills 

HOTEL & RESTAURANT 

The PowderMills is a beautiful Georgian Grade ll 

listed Country House Hotel set deep in 150 acres of 

English countryside adjoining the 1066 battlefields 

and close to the historic town of Battle. 

The hotel is a very special place and has the 

welcoming and relaxed atmosphere of a family home. 

It's full of period charm with rooms full of comfy 

sofas, antiques, unusual paintings, good books and 

wonderful log fires. Woods, lakes, terraces, gazebos 

and rolling lawns make the setting truly perfect. 

And as one of the few hotels to be privately owned, 

it's lovingly run and you'll enjoy a level of personal 

service and care which is quite outstanding. 

The Orangery Restaurant has received many 

accolades and is open for morning coffee, lunch, 

afternoon tea and dinner. We serve our famous 

homemade afternoon teas on picturesque terraces in 

summer or in front of roaring log fires in winter. 

Award winning Chef Callum O’Doherty and his team 

source and freshly prepare the best of local produce 

and during the summer can provide delicious picnics 

to take with you whilst you visit the many places of 

interest in 1066 Country. As well as being a 

wonderful place to relax and unwind, PowderMills 

has a number of special events running throughout 

the year from Sunday Jazz lunches to Masquerade 

Balls. It also caters for weddings, conferences and 

private parties for up to 250 guests and is the perfect 

venue whatever the reason for your visit. 

The PowderMills Hotel 

Powdermill Lane 

Battle, East Sussex TN33 OSP 

Telephone 01424 775511 

email: reservations@thepowdermills.com 

www.powdermillshotel.com

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CONTENTS 

Artists 3 

Selectors 

2015/2016 49 

Features 54 

Galleries, Goods 

& Services 49 

Index 62 

Image ‘Antony Penrose, Living 

Room, Farley Farm House, 

Sussex, England’ by Tony Tree. 

© Courtesy Lee Miller Archives, 

England 2015. All rights 

reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk 

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The 

ARTISTS 

“THE MAIN THING IS 

TO BE MOVED, 

TO LOVE, 

TO HOPE, 

TO TREMBLE, 

TO LIVE” 

Auguste Rodin 


CONTACT 

jimpanzee2@yahoo.co.uk 

www.jimpanzee.co.uk 

JIM 

ANDERSON 

RE 

Jim Anderson is a printmaker, painter, 

mosaic-maker, teacher, and writer. He 

uses several different media; recycled 

materials are paramount, and his work 

is steeped in the surreal and the satirical. 

In 1994 Sister Wendy Beckett awarded 

him the ‘Under-30 prize’ at the Eastern 

Art Show. 

Since then he has won four awards 

in major exhibitions - most recently in 

2007’s Small Print Big Impression. In 

1997 he was co-founder of satirical 

journal The Illustrated Ape; and his book 

Handmade Prints – written with Anne 

Desmet – was published in 2000. He 

was also one of the artists featured in 

Tony Dyson’s book Printmakers’ Secrets. 


CONTACT 

info@joansell.co.uk 

www.joansell.com 

Jo Ansell Sculptures 

Jo Ansell 

JO 

ANSELL 

My inspiration is to create a flowing 

form which captures the curves and 

sensuousness of the female form. 

However, a piece is only a success if I 

have managed to capture an emotion 

within the form and expression. 

Each sculpture is entirely hand 

crafted and unique. The process starts 

by the making of the stone which is 

made from mixing natural resources, 

including finely ground marble and 

minerals. Once hardened, the block is 

carved using hand tools and sanded 

to finish. The finished piece can be 

displayed indoors or outdoors. 


CONTACT 

itsninonatomicsuperstar@gmail.com 

www.ninonatomicsuperstar.com 

NINON 

ATOMIC SUPERSTAR 

Ninon is a French, London based artist working 

mainly with digital images, bringing and blending 

together various techniques from video to 3D. 

She uses these time-based tools to explore the 

temporalisation of space, romanticising and 

re-modelling specific moments that were once 

fixed on films, tapes or memory cards. She is 

interested in exploring the idea that a place can 

only really exist once, through one’s experience 

of it at a specific moment in time. 

Consequently, she intends to reconstruct 

this moment both through imagination and 

memory, hence challenging the modern and 

conventional confines of time and space. This 

process of reflective nostalgia results in creating 

a suspended and experiential fragment of time, 

creating a borderless frame where the viewer is 

invited to detach himself from the way things are 

supposed to be, and make it work according to 

his/her own terms. 


CONTACT 

edith@edithart.co.uk 

www.edithart.co.uk 

facebook.com/Edithart Textiles 

Edith Barton 

EDITH PARGH 

BARTON 

BA 

Edith Pargh Barton’s sculptures are 

inspired by ancient and pre-historic 

fertility figures from all cultures as well 

as amulets, charms, talismans and the 

powers they hold within. They are fully 

dimensional touchy-feely shapes and 

forms that radiate all the quirkiness 

of human personality. The sculptures 

interact and move within their own 

identities and feelings, each one unique 

and engaging. They are meant to be held 

and touched. At once accessible and 

desirable, standing alone or in collective 

groups, they are human-like in their 

appearance, leaving the observer to 

wonder what thoughts and feelings each 

may be having. 


PLEASE CONTACT 

THE SCHOOL TO 

ARRANGE A VISIT 

info@battleabbeyschool.com 

www.battleabbeyschool.com 

01424 772385 

BATTLE ABBEY 

SCHOOL 

Battle Abbey School has a highly successful 

and thriving Art Department. There are three 

experienced and enthusiastic teachers offering 

qualifications in Fine Art, Art Textiles and 

Photography. The subject is extremely popular 

with pupils, many spending extra hours in the Art 

department developing their skills. 

The aim is to encourage individual and personal 

growth in the visual arts, to develop the perception 

of visual form and to co-ordinate hand and 

eye. Above all Art is a stimulating and exciting 

subject that often proves to be a life long passion. 

Students will learn that through hard work and 

experimentation they can be successful. Battle 

Abbey Art students gain places at the best 

Art Colleges and Universities from Central St. 

Martins, Chelsea, Edinburgh, the Slade, Kingston, 

Brighton and many more. Students are currently 

embarking on courses for Architecture, Fashion, 

Fine Art, Graphics and Fashion/Marketing. 


CONTACT 

mary.beaney@btinternet.com 

www.artontheriver.co.uk 

Mary (Reay) Beaney 

MARY 

BEANEY 

For the past 30 years I have promoted, supported 

and mentored many artists via my “Art on the River” 

Exhibitions, “Art in the Community” workshops, cofounder 

of Chalk Gallery, Lewes, Pure Arts PR team, 

and various other involvements. My current work 

“Angels” is full of texture - built up with polyfilla, PVA 

glue, tissue paper, sand, salt, inks, tea, coffee, bleach, 

vintage photographs to make my paintings that little 

bit different. 

A major element in my work is an attempt to 

create atmosphere - aiming to balance a moment 

in time past with the contemporary of today. It has 

been said that “her works are strongly connected 

with her inner emotions and secretly kept memories, 

a personal bridge giving us a way to see through 

her window. She bravely mixes and uses new 

techniques and materials - the result is amazing 

emotional art”. It has also been hinted “that my work 

is deep, dark and mysterious” !!!................ 


CONTACT 

jezbear@yahoo.co.uk 

www.jeremybear.co.uk 

JEREMY 

BEAR 

After studying at Brighton College of Art I 

worked as an exhibition designer and then 

pursued a long career as a film and television 

designer at the BBC, Yorkshire Television (where 

I was Head of Design) and freelance. I have 

designed productions as varied as Dr Who and 

Tomorrow’s World, including dozens of dramas 

and independent films. In 2001 I completed an 

MA in Digital Imaging at London Metropolitan 

University. Throughout I’ve been drawing and 

painting and since 2009 have exhibited regularly 

in London and Sussex. 

My works are in private collections in the UK, 

France, Spain, Greece, Canada, London and New 

Zealand. People and their lives are at the heart of 

my work and travels in Europe, India and Japan 

have inspired many recent paintings. My other 

great passion is for the sea and sailing revealed 

in my paintings and drawings of fishermen and 

working boats here and further afield. 


CONTACT 

artswati@yahoo.com 

artswati.wordpress.com 

@artswati123 

SWATI 

BHALOTIA 

My eyes taste colour like my tongue tastes 

spice: fresh, vast, limitless. 

Details are not my palette. Instead, the energy 

in the room feeds my aesthetic and I chart the 

auras of the space around me. Solid, luminous, 

deep-set colours are the visual equivalent 

of my spiritual sense. Filled with the Indian 

sensibility of pure colour, my paintings treat the 

colour itself as the subject. Its broken, blurred, 

repeated and stylised for an inner transcendent 

shift. As Dominique de Menil said, ‘the world is 

full of images and only abstract art can bring 

us to the threshold of the divine’. 

Swati is a visual artist of Indian origin, based 

in London. She is the winner of the Pure 

Student Prize 2015, awarded annually by Pure 

founder Lesley Samms to a student at The Art 

Academy, London. 


CONTACT 

lynne@hipposcreenprinters.com 

www.lynneblackburn.com 

www.facebook.com/ 

lynneblackburnprintmaker 

@hippoeditions 

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/ 

hipposcreenprinters 

LYNNE 

BLACKBURN 

MA 

Lynne Blackburn is an experienced printmaker, 

exhibiting artist and screen print editioner. 

She owns and runs her own screen printing 

company – Hippo Screenprinters – from her 

studio near Chelmsford in Essex. Lynne’s work 

explores the memories and history embedded 

within familiar places and buildings – the human 

traces left behind in, and on, buildings, from the 

visual traces to subconscious and psychological 

ones. She is interested in how the ordinary and 

mundane of the everyday show and mark the 

passing of time and how, by recording traces of 

personal memory, a sense of a broader social 

and historical memory is evoked. Lynne is 

fascinated by the transitory nature of the built 

environment; the stories that exist within it and 

the decay and detritus of modern cities. 


CONTACT 

angelambrittain@gmail.com 

www.angelabrittain.co.uk 

www.facebook.com/angela.brittain.50 

ANGELA 

BRITTAIN 

UA, ASWA 

Each work I create has a search for “rightness” 

– an attempt to solve complex and often 

self-imposed compositional problems, which 

often have a tension below the surface. I work 

mainly in oils and acrylics. People fascinate 

me, but I’m not sure that I made a conscious 

decision to make people central to my work or 

if this subject chose me. I have a Diploma in Art 

and Design and after several years working as a 

graphic designer and illustrator - spent ten years 

in senior marketing communication roles, finally 

returning to my first love of drawing & painting 

in 2008. I have taught art to children and adults 

and currently offer one-to-one workshops from 

my home studio in West Sussex. I have recently 

been elected an Associate Member of the 

Society of Women Artists (SWA) and exhibit in 

London and the South of England. 


CONTACT 

hermione@carlinehunter.com 

www.hermionecarline.co.uk 

www.facebook.com/hermionecarline 

twitter.com/HermioneCarline 

HERMIONE 

CARLINE 

MA RCA 

The inspiration for Hermione Carline’s work 

lies in the transient beauty she perceives in 

the ordinary, in evoking the sensation of a 

particular moment where time seems to stand 

still. She aims to capture her own response to 

that instant, to get inside that feeling, always 

searching for that ephemeral quality which 

represents the space between reality and 

memory. Drawing, painting and original prints 

are all important components in her practice 

and they all interrelate together. 

Carline uses divisions within her paintings and 

drawings to create a sense of detachment from 

the original source, so that she is both within 

the scene but also distant from it, focusing 

on capturing that moment of perfection she 

originally experienced. Recent work has been 

inspired by a wonderful trip to Japan in 2013 

where she became fascinated with Japanese 

architecture and interiors. 


CONTACT 

anniecatford@yahoo.com 

anniecatford.weebly.com 

ANNIE 

CATFORD 

My original fine art training has influenced my 

current photography, collage and film work. The 

same journey. Since moving from London to 

Folkestone five years ago I‘ve become interested 

in the history of my new environment. The local, 

monthly antique fair held at the Grand Hotel 

has provided me with books and postcards of 

Folkestone’s development. 

These images have allowed me to time travel, 

juxtaposing myself and others into different 

places and times. The Frida and Diego in 

Folkestone series began with a photo I found 

of them, posing in a building remarkably like 

the Grand Hotel itself. Their lifestyle, fame and 

practice gave them a notoriety like the Burtons. 

They were photographed, exhibited and 

travelled throughout the USA and Europe, why not 

Folkestone? They would have fitted well into both 

the past and present social scene. Frida Kahlo 

was only one year older than my mother, their 

lives so different. 


CONTACT 

louisacrispin@gmail.com 

www.louisacrispin.co.uk 

www.facebook.com/LouisaCrispinArt 

www.twitter.com/Louisa_Crispin 

LOUISA 

CRISPIN 

AUA 

A chance opportunity brought a small twig with 

tiny crab apples. Now Louisa is captivated by 

the way Lichen grows and enjoy searching for 

just the right stick, studying the detail before 

capturing it on beautiful smooth Strathmore 

Bristol Board using ultra sharp Staedtler pencils. 

She sits quietly in her garden studio with Radio 

4 wittering in the background, zoning out from 

the world around as she looks ever closer at 

plants, insects and birds. Texture, shadows, 

silhouettes and movement created with marks 

and tone, it’s rarely about the colour. 

Partner of Artichoke Gallery, Ticehurst and Vice 

Chairman of Chalk Gallery Lewes, Louisa has 

been selected for Pure Arts Group since 2012, 

winning the Drawing Prize in 2013. Her drawings 

are regularly shown in London Open Exhibitions 

and she has recently been elected an Associate 

of the United Society of Artists. 


CONTACT 

info@woolcraftwithwensleydale.com 

https:/juliadeschartist- rhythm of the year 

01323 832781 

JULIA 

DESCH 

I am a multi-faceted artist working with 

watercolour, words and Wensleydale fibre. 

I create paintings, write and illustrate my 

own poetry and design and make a variety 

of original products with my own pure 

Wensleydale fibre - special handknits, semifelted 

wallhangings - and produce materials 

for spinners, knitters etc. These disciplines are 

brought together with a love of nature and a 

strong inner imagination. 

Having grown up in an artistic family, then 

self-taught, the desire for experimentation is 

ongoing. So also is the passion to share skills 

and pass on creative enthusiasm, especially 

in relation to rare breed fibre. I hold frequent 

Open Days, invite small groups to come into 

the Working Studio to exchange ideas and 

take part in local exhibitions. 

I am a member of the International 

Feltmakers Association. 


CONTACT 

info@melvynevans.com 

www.melvynevans.com 

@Melvyn_Evans_ 

MELVYN 

EVANS 

In this work I am exploring the connections 

between the aural traditions, allegory and 

folklore of the British landscape. I am fascinated 

by this sense of prehistory, the way it surfaces in 

old place names and early monuments offering 

comment on the mysteries of our lives, our 

existence and traditions. My inspiration is taken 

from the landscape but I am interested in, and 

concerned with the point at which the figurative 

meets the abstract. 


CONTACT 

flic@felicity-flutter.co.uk 

www.felicity-flutter.co.uk 

Felicity Flutter Art 

Felicity Flutter BA @FlicFlutter 

Felicity Flutter 

FELICITY 

FLUTTER 

BA ASGFA 

I have a background in Graphic Design however 

over the last 20 years I have concentrated on 

watercolour painting as a preferred career. 

Recent work has seascape themes often 

combining two disciplines, Drawing and 

Watercolour, mixing artistic license with realism. 

I aim to choose subject matter which challenges 

me as watercolour artist. Paintings that include 

water, skies and long shadows are particular 

favourites. I keep a camera with me at all times to 

capture reference for my paintings and also get 

out and about with my sketchbook as often as 

possible. I paint using bold colours, with strong 

tonal values, building up the watercolour paint, 

starting with washes and finishing with a dry 

brush or natural sponge to create more random 

marks. I became an associate member of the 

Society of Graphic Fine Art in 2014 and will be 

exhibiting regularly with this group in London. 


ADELE 

GIBSON 

Adele Gibson’s work is rooted in her connection 

to the landscape, both of her home in Sussex and 

that of North West Scotland where she travels 

throughout the year. She uses the language 

of paint to convey her reverence for nature, 

the influences of weather and the geological 

formations of timespans too huge to envisage. 

Her paintings are reflections on us being part of 

something bigger than our everyday concerns. 

Adele makes studies using mixed media in her 

sketchbooks and these form a starting point for 

finished paintings which are completed in her 

studio. During the painting process, the image 

develops and can incorporate visual memories 

together with inspiration from music, poetry 

and the written word. She works in oils using 

thin layers of transparent glazes so the image is 

held between appearing and disappearing. Adele 

is currently studying for an MA in Fine Art at 

Brighton University. 

CONTACT 

adelemgibson@yahoo.co.uk 

www.adelegibson.co.uk 


adelegibsonart 

@adelegibsonart 

@adelegibsonart 


CONTACT 

leila.godden@btinternet.com 

www.leilagodden.com 

Leila Godden Art 

@LeilaGodden 

LEILA 

GODDEN 

AUA 

My source of inspiration is my connection with 

the sea. The vast panorama of changing light, 

dramatic weather and powerful water, framed 

by rocks solid with history, yet transient with 

time and the rhythm of the earth. The minutiae 

of rock pools juxtaposed against the expansive 

sweep of sea and sky. Here, I feel a completeness 

incorporating time and space, stillness and 

movement. My paintings seek to recreate this 

connection, by distilling something essential 

about what it is to be part of this ever changing, 

ever the same, timeless phenomenon. 

I hope they stir some memory or sensation 

personal to you, the viewer. Leila is an associate 

member of the United Society of Artists, regularly 

exhibiting in London, and Chairman of artist run 

Chalk Gallery, Lewes, East Sussex. 


CONTACT 

benjamincousen@gmail.com 

Benjamin Hannavy-Cousen 

BENJAMIN 

HANNAVY COUSEN 

My paintings are intersections between the 

practices of writing, reading and visual art. I have 

developed unique processes in order to develop 

a phenomenological approach to rendering texts 

PhD 

memory and into paint and create new objects out 

of books. These paintings are not solely intellectual 

experiments, they are emotional responses and 

sites of accident and intrigue. 

They have been described as exploring ‘the 

creative potential of intertextuality and what it 

means to have a sustained encounter with worlds 

imagined by others’ and I find the surfaces created 

constantly surprising. 

My first solo show The Colour of Words took 

place in Gallery 116 from June to September 2015 

and in September 2015 I was the recipient of the 

Sylvia Tiffin award for imagination and innovation at 

The September Art Exhibition in Wadhurst. 


CONTACT 

katyht92@gmail.com 

www.katyharrisontaylor.com 

www.twitter.com/katyht92 

www.linkedin.com/in/ 

katyharrisontaylor 

KATY 

HARRISON-TAYLOR 

I see my artistic practice as a journey. Whilst the 

notion of control has remained fundamental, my 

own position within the work has varied greatly. 

Initially I explored the art world and it’s power 

relations as a spectator, and then positioned 

myself in the context of this world to embody the 

character of the artist. Using humour to engage 

with an audience enabled me to explore my 

position as a woman, both as a subject of the art 

world and as the protagonist of my work. 

Through this development of thought and 

expression I have utilised the versatility of moving 

image; both to document my performances, and 

to capture scenes from my life to form a narrative. 


CONTACT 

Brenda.hartill@gmail.com 

www.brendahartill.com 

BLOG: brendahartill.blogspot.com 

Brenda Hartill 


BRENDA 

HARTILL 

While essentially a mixed-media artist and 

printmaker, I have recently become interested in 

using watercolour in its own right, backed up by 

my printmaking skills. In my most recent series of 

unique abstract works, the watercolour element 

has taken over from the embossing collagraph, 

which I used simply as an interesting ground. When 

embossed, my heavy 400 gms hand-made paper 

produces a wide range of undulating surfaces which 

allows the colour to pool and flood in interesting and 

different ways, creating depth and texture to enrich 

the painting. 

My early experience as a theatrical designer 

has led to a sculptural approach to painting 

and printmaking. My work evolves through the 

materials I use. My on-going fascination is with 

erosion, weather patterns, natural textures, growth 

formations and universal organic forms. I have 

written a book for A&C Black “Collagraph and Mixed- 

Media Printmaking”, and have produced a DVD set 

“Collagraph, a Sculptural approach to Printmaking”. 


CONTACT 

info@jonathanhateley.com 

www.jonathanhateley.com 

facebook.com/pages/Jonathan- 

Hateley-Sculpture 

twitter.com/jonsculpture 

Jonathan Hateley 

JONATHAN 

HATELEY 

My sculptures are inspired by all aspects 

of nature including wildlife and the human 

figure, and the relationship between them. 

Working in clay, I enjoy the challenge of 

creating what’s in front of me or in my head 

to illustrate an idea. 

Detailing or creating a texture is part of 

my process, often using bas-relief on the 

surface of my sculptures, attempting to draw 

you in from the initial form, more recently, 

hand painting to accentuate that relief. My 

sculptures are produced in bronze and resin 

bronze casts, suitable for indoors, outdoor 

public spaces and the garden. 


CONTACT 

nick.hebditch@btinternet.com 

www.nickhebditch.co.uk 

Nick Hebditch Fine Art 

@NickHebditch1 

Nick Hebditch Fine Artist 

NICK 

HEBDITCH 

Apart from a wealth of rich subject matter near 

his home in Tonbridge, Nick enjoys painting views 

of The Thames Valley, and North Yorkshire. His 

cityscapes include London, New York, and numerous 

continental ones. Working largely in oil and acrylic, 

Nick sporadically explores new ideas in his work 

through his response to light, colour, and a variety of 

media. Avoiding a slavish photographic representation, 

he enjoys the possibilities of mark making, surface 

texture and abstract qualities that are encountered 

through the act of painting. 

Nick exhibits his work at a number of leading 

galleries and Art Fairs around England and shows 

regularly at the Mall Galleries in London. He has 

been commissioned for many private and corporate 

projects including a number of new Royal Caribbean 

Liners and a London Underground Poster. He 

has written articles for The Artist, and Artists and 

Illustrators Magazines. 


CONTACT 

www.richardianheys.co.uk 

www.facebook.com/richardheys.artist 

@Richardianheys 

Richard Heys 

RICHARD 

HEYS 

BA 

In my practise I work primarily as an abstract artist, 

exploring pure colour and form, the substance of paint 

and ground, and the tensions between the physical 

processes of making and the ‘life’ in the piece. I strive 

to create paintings with presence, paintings which 

have atmosphere and countenance. 

For the last couple of years I have been working in 

a beautiful light-filled studio in Forest Row exploring 

tools and techniques which disguise the hand of the 

artist. I have found in this limitation and challenge, 

a greater freedom. In my painting I explore light and 

darkness and pure lyrical colour journeys, working with 

transparency and glazing to create vibrant surfaces. 

I am engaged in a passionate personal journey to 

rediscover beauty and uncover the unknown. 


CONTACT 

info@danihumberstoneart.com 

www.danihumberstoneart.com 

Dani Humberstone 

@DaniHumberstone 


DANI 

HUMBERSTONE 

SWA 

My current work is allegorical - I am interested 

in the many layers of memory that form and 

shape an individual; personal memories as well 

as the more collective general experience. 

I use the symbolism of ripe fruit to illustrate a 

narrative, an idea or thought. 

Painting directly from life allows me to 

translate three dimensions into two and 

capture the essence or life force of the subject. 

Individual fruits damage easily; so as they slowly 

age I track their gradual decay in the painting 

as I work. Fruit has been used metaphorically 

in art and language for centuries. It has helped 

Illustrate FairyTales, Mythology, The Bible and 

Shakespeare etc. 

An apple in Renaissance painting was 

symbolic of ‘a fallen woman’ and we still use 

fruit analogies to describe ourselves and how 

we live now. 


CONTACT 

monairhyman@rocketmail.com 

MONAIR 

HYMAN 

Ornamental and decorative motifs are used as a 

metaphor to explore concerns related to desire. In 

an almost voyeuristic sense the work attempts to 

glimpse some other reality. My work invites us to 

consider how we perceive what we see on the painted 

surface - and then how that might relate to our interior 

lives. It is as if we look into them and yet through a 

gauze or mist. How deep is the space? Is it shallow 

or infinite? Motifs shift into swirling intricate patterns 

but then they are smeared across the surface of the 

canvas. Through the movement of the observer and 

changes of light the elusive images constantly shift, 

entice, elude, where the eye can never settle or the 

image be completely contained. 


CONTACT 

rachel.johnson17@icloud.com 

www.experientialdance.com 


experientialdance 

twitter.com/Rach_Choreo 

https://vimeo.com/ 

user39612971 

RACHEL 

JOHNSON 

I’m a London based choreographer & film artist 

originally from Newcastle. To find new and exciting 

possibilities for my work I collaborate with a diverse 

range of artists, including designers, musicians, film 

artists and architects. This is one of the most rewarding 

parts of my profession. 

My work spans installations, theatre performances, 

film screenings and site-specific work, incorporating 

both live movement and film. Camera work and film 

editing are much loved mediums of mine because of 

their almost unlimited capacity to provide new angles, 

focuses and perspectives on the physical relationship 

between the body and its environment. 

This relationship is questioned in all my work. 

Investigation into how to create an experience is at 

the heart of all my work. My company, Experiential, 

provide complete 360, holistic, life enhancing audience 

experiences with every performance. Our current 

sun rise inspired dance – film production is touring 

throughout the UK with the support of Arts Council 

England & Pure Arts. 


CONTACT 

vincent@vincentmatthewsart.co.uk 

www.vincentmatthewsart.co.uk 

@Vincent82572951 

Vincent Matthews SGFA 

VINCENT 

MATTHEWS 

SGFA 

Vincent is a multi media artist and loves to use 

his sketches from observation for his etching 

aquatints and drawings. He firmly believes that 

by sitting outside sketching from observation, 

interpreting what one sees with marks, that 

much more is absorbed; experiencing the place 

in a way that just does not happen with a split 

second photograph. 

When using this information to produce his 

etchings, he is relying on his sketches, memory 

and the character of the medium. He likes to 

pair back the drawing and to add abstract slabs 

of aquatint tone onto them, sometimes adding 

some variation in the marks and quality of line 

by using an intaglio engraving burin. He is also 

very interested in playing with white spaces and 

what is left out being as important as what is 

left in. Vincent’s work is largely inspired by the 

landscape around Rye and Dungeness. 


CONTACT 

rod@rodmcintosh.co.uk 

www.rodmcintosh.co.uk 

Rod McIntosh Artist 

@DawltonBarn 

Rod McIntosh 

@DawltonBarn 

ROD 

McINTOSH 

McIntosh’s work has transformed from figurative 

sculpture with a medico-anthropological starting point 

to works that appear to have minimal subject. He 

is driven by an integrity towards his equipment, the 

provenance of materials used and the traditions of the 

processes he employs. 

His exploration of a visual language of marks is 

rooted in drawing. The works are often contradictions 

of gestures akin to abstract expressionism or action 

paintings from the west to those of Japan and 

China. Marks made through gesture and the body’s 

movement are partners alongside obsessive repetitive 

processes. The artefacts are analogue renditions 

within a highly digitised aesthetic ecology. 

He speaks of them as: “Physical meditations, that 

offer himself, and the viewer, a moment to pause from 

our ‘smart-style’, click or swipe preoccupations and to 

connect with something made by hand.” 


CONTACT 

bubbynurse98@gmail.com 

REBECCA 

NURSE 

Currently studying Art, Textiles and Maths at A2 

level at Eastbourne College, Rebecca’s passion lies 

within the arenas of fashion and fine art. As such, 

she approaches her creative studies with the aim of 

revealing both the obvious and concealed ties that 

exist between these two worlds. 

It is Rebecca’s firm objective to pursue a career in 

fashion and she is currently applying to a number 

of universities and institutions for art foundation in 

Fashion Design. As part of her Gold Art Award, she 

will be curating an exhibition at the Birley Centre, 

Eastbourne in November. The exhibition, entitled 

PAPER|COUTURE, will explore fashion and how it is 

portrayed in art and vice versa. 

She has chosen to work with artists who challenge 

pre-conceived boundaries and play with the concept 

of couture. This exhibition will portray a variety of work 

in different media, including a bespoke paper couture 

garment created by Freya Von Bulow. 


CONTACT 

info@hildegardpax.com 

www.hildegardpax.com 


HildegardPaxGlass 

@HildegardPax 

HILDEGARD 

PAX 

The inspiration for my work stems from the 

observation of light in nature, especially at 

times of sunrise and sunset. Glass is central 

to my work with it’s qualities of reflection, 

refraction, opacity and translucency. In the 

assemblages of glass I strive to ‘Make the 

Invisible Visible’ and create unexpected 

temporal beauty. 

Placing an opaque or translucent element 

within or behind the work creates a screen to 

hold the light colour ‘projection’ or ‘reflection’. 

Reflected and transmitted colours meet and 

intermingle, creating an ethereal colour field 

space within the artwork. 

I “paint with light” using colour, lines and 

shapes in multilayered compositions to 

create intriguing and mesmerizing fields of 

projected colour. 

My work has been exhibited in open 

submission exhibitions and art fairs in 

London and the South East. 


CONTACT 

dizpragnell@gmail.com 

www.dizzypragnellprints.co.uk 

dizzypragnellprints 

Dizzy Pragnell 

DIZZY 

PRAGNELL 

BA(hons) 

Dizzy Pragnell’s work is a curious interpretation 

of seemingly everyday ingredients, encouraging 

the viewer to look with fresh eyes at the familiar. 

Her vegetable and fruit papyrus explores the 

role played by the ingredients, as symbols of 

reproductive nature, which give man foods 

essential for survival. 

The vegetable papyrus is made using similar 

techniques to the ancient Egyptians. A fusion of 

overlapping finely sliced fruit or vegetable fibres 

laminate to form a textural surface. Each delicate 

sheet becomes an arrangement of colour and 

tone, retaining the essence of its origins without 

sacrificing the essential reality of the natural form. 

These tactile sheets are an ideal material from 

which to create a variety of different works such 

as book art, sculpture and framed works. Dizzy 

Pragnell has exhibited internationally and across 

the United Kingdom, including at the Royal 

Academy. Her work is also included in a number of 

museum collections. 


CONTACT 

clive.riggs@talk21.com 

www.cliveriggs-fineart.co.uk 

CLIVE 

RIGGS 

SGFA 

I believe that drawing should be the basis 

or the start point for artistic practices 

and therefore also for my work. I draw 

directly from the landscape or wildlife in 

it and use photography occasionally as 

a reference. I am a believer in drawing 

what you see and not what you know 

and this gives me the confidence that I’m 

renewing my vision all the time. 

I try to inject some mystery into the 

images I create, which is always based 

on an experience of the visible world and 

a kind of celebration of it. 


CONTACT 

carolerobson.art@gmail.com 

www.carolerobson.com 


carolerobsonart 

@carolesart 

Carole Robson 

CAROLE 

ROBSON 

Carole trained at St Martin’s School of Art and 

subsequently worked for 12 years as a freelance 

Illustrator for major London publishers. Working 

from her studio in Kent, Carole’s paintings reflect 

her strong interest in the natural environment, 

aiming to celebrate meadows and wild areas. 

What interests her most is the apparently 

insignificant, grasses for example, that give 

movement to a landscape, the fragility of a patch 

of weeds or weathered plants that retain a kind of 

nobility in their structure even in their dry, decaying 

state. Carole has an experimental approach to 

painting which combines the translucency of 

washes with resist techniques, mixed media and 

mark making. In recent years she has brought 

digital art into her practise, using it to manipulate, 

abstract and transform her painted images. 

She regards it as a circular process whereby 

the digital images derived from her paintings 

frequently re influence new works. 


CONTACT 

shelley@shelleyrose.com 

www.shelleyrose.com 


shelleyroseart 

@ShelleyRoseArt 

SHELLEY 

ROSE 

Shelley recreates and builds a passionate mix 

of beautiful still life objects, composed from a 

contemporary viewpoint. Using a restricted palette, 

unusual and often intriguing curiosities, his intimate 

and atmospheric compositions are imbued with a 

quiet stillness, capturing the delicate play of light, 

bringing the portrayal of simple produce composed 

in the style of the Old Masters into the 21st century. 

Recent work has been inspired by visits to ancient 

churches and rural landscapes, as well as the rich 

bounty of nature. 

Shelley has exhibited extensively in London 

including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions 

and participates in art fairs in London and the 

South-East. He has won the John Purcell Paper 

Award for Outstanding Printmaking in 2005 and the 

Aberystwyth Purchase Prize in 2009. Work by Shelley 

is held in public and private collections, including the 

British Museum Prints and Drawings collection. 


CONTACT 

gavin@wingartgallery.com 

www.wingartgallery.com 

@WINGartgallery 

GAVIN 

ROWETH 

Gavin has been sculpting full time for the past 9 years, 

initially creating figurative work in clay and stone. In 

the last few years he has opened WING gallery in 

Wadhurst to promote many local artists as well as 

working on his own and commissioned stone pieces. 

His own work has been guided more and more by the 

essence of the material he uses, principally Portland 

Limestone. Carving directly into stone, creating simple 

and complex abstract forms designed around the 

intrinsic nature of its substance, the marks where life 

on the planet has left its history cemented within the 

stone often become an essential part of the finished 

piece. He looks to create a harmony between the 

stone and the sculptor using chisel and file. 


CONTACT 

casamms@hotmail.co.uk 

www.battleabbeyschool.com 

CHRISTIE 

SAMMS 

Christie is a Battle Abbey School Alumni, currently 

studying for a Degree in Business Management at 

Oxford Brookes University. 

She attained an A level in Photography in 2015 under 

the tutorage of Dr. Nigel Green and intends to continue 

exploring and developing her practice over the coming 

years alongside her business studies. 

To date her work has explored the boundaries 

between perception and reality. It includes a strong 

element of fun and playfulness, seeking to draw the 

viewer in, both in a visual and physical sense. 

Her key artistic influences to date have been Tyler 

Shields, Jeremy Tourvielle, Howard Shatz, Titus 

Kaphar and Man Ray as well as photographer/ 

designer Idil Sukan. 


CONTACT 

kate@kateschuricht.com 

www.kateschuricht.com 

@kateschuricht 

KATE 

SCHURICHT 

The passage of time and the ability of objects to 

connect us with our past are constant sources of 

inspiration for Kate’s work in clay. Her collection 

of boxes, jugs, vessels and bound containers are 

conceived as small scale installations. Pots are 

carefully positioned to highlight the relationship 

between the interior and exterior. 

Using the unique effects of raku firing, Kate creates 

pieces with distinctive crackles and smoked textures 

with a seemingly timeless quality. Kate studied 

Ceramics and Visual Art at the University of Brighton. 

Following her graduation, she was selected for 

a ceramic residency in Japan where she worked 

alongside established international artists. 

Kate has exhibited internationally since 1996, with a 

major show at Blackwell in 2008. Her work has been 

commissioned for private and public collections, 

including British Airways, The British Embassy, The 

Walker Art Gallery and Cowley Manor. Kate is a 

Professional Member of the Craft Potters Association. 


CONTACT 

tina.selby@live.com 

www.tinaselby.co.uk 

Tina Selby 

TINA 

SELBY 

Tina’s practice is a process of design and 

experimentation, continually testing the capabilities 

of the laser cutter, in order to turn her 2 dimensional 

drawings into 3 dimensional forms. 

Fascinated by pattern and line, Tina has studied the 

natural patterns of our earth, concentrating on the 

view of our planet from an aerial perspective. Collating 

aerial photographs and images taken from satellites, 

Tina was able to catalogue a huge resource of intricate 

lines and patterns, which highlighted the complexity 

and intricacy of our planet. These drawings have been 

translated into a series of work, entitled Perceptions. 

Passionate about the beauty of nature her work 

considers how the intricate patterns and perfectly 

sculpted forms of nature, which surround us, are often 

overlooked with our ever-demanding lives of routine 

and work schedules. This need to make people “stop 

and see” is the purpose behind “Perceptions” which 

invites the viewer to “look closer”. 


CONTACT 

john@construxions.co.uk 

www.johnshanks.co.uk 

JOHN 

SHANKS 

Born in Glasgow in 1950, now living between 

Hastings and London John has been making 

images since the late sixties, originally across a 

range of media though now settled on cameraoriginated 

imagery. Exhibits regularly in both solo 

and group shows. 

Recent images explore “extrapolations and 

extrusions”, looking into the original camera 

image and changing its impact to one of either 

“unseen detail” or of “colour and contrasts”. 

“Selection and eradication” also play a vital role 

in recent work. The “Virtual Garden“, “Modern 

Landscapes” and “Objects” series reflect 

ongoing three-year projects, the former adapting 

macro images of fruit, vegetables and flowers 

into abstract compositions. 

Recent work has been shown and sold at 

Artstrata and The RA Summer Show in 2014 

and in Hastings Arts Forum in 2015. 


ERICA 

STURLA 

Erica works in polymer clay and acrylics to create 

figurative, three dimensional scenes. She enjoys 

the humour, colour and movement that creating 

the figures in clay brings to her subjects. This 

contrasts with the more studied approach of the 

background painting. Inspirations are firmly rooted 

in everyday life - the joy is in creating a painting 

that celebrates the familiar in a new way. 

Erica shows work in a number of galleries 

across the UK and undertakes an increasing 

number of private commissions every year. Her 

designs appear in children’s books, several ranges 

of greetings cards and products for the home. 

Trained in Fashion illustration/journalism and 

a member of the Association of Illustrators for 

many years, Erica also creates digital drawings. 

She was commissioned by London Transport 

Museum to create the marketing image for 2015 

prestigious ‘Prize for Illustration’ exhibition. 

CONTACT 

art@ericasturla.com 

ericasturla.com 

www.facebook.com/Erica-Sturla- 

Original-Art-279603642156776/ 

timeline/ 

@EricaSturlaArt 


CONTACT 

www.juliansutherlandbeatson.co.uk 

www.facebook.com/Julian-SB-newdaily-paintings-279359995497447/ 

timeline/ 

www.artfinder.com/julian-sutherlandbeatson 

JULIAN 

SUTHERLAND 

-BEATSON 

The main theme of my current work 

is the marking and celebration of a 

specific time and place. I interpret the 

changing mood and seasons reflected 

in the countryside, coastline and urban 

areas that I inhabit and seek to create 

work that is evocative and emotive. 

My work reflects the prevailing 

seasonal conditions and is also 

affected by my mood and need for say, 

sun, cold, or just something different. 

These personal needs inform the work 

to a large extent and the paintings are 

a record of a specific point in my own 

personal ‘timeline’. 


CONTACT 

alisontrask@mac.com 

www.alisontrask.com 

ALISON 

TRASK 

MA 

Born in 1965, Alison Trask has been showing 

and selling a wide variety of work since 

2005. She has also been a member of The 

September Art Exhibition committee for 

the duration of this time. Alison’s formal art 

education began at the Kent institute of Art, 

where she graduated in Design and Illustration. 

She later undertook a Masters in Sequential 

Design and Illustration at Brighton University. 

Alison’s visual language reflects a passion 

for the natural world. Having no pre-formed 

idea as she begins each picture, it is the 

act of painting itself and constant studying 

of the subject, which allows her to reach 

a resolution. Her work is characterised by 

bold mark making and a dark, striking colour 

palette, which she uses to dramatic effect in 

her depictions of the Sussex, Kent and North 

Devon coast and countryside. 


KATE 

VAN DER PUMP 

Kate’s earliest memories are of standing 

in the workshop of the family’s London’s 

Hatton Garden offices watching master 

silversmiths create beautiful, shiny objects 

from solid pieces of silver. The fascination 

has never dimmed. Alongside a long 

career teaching art, Kate has moved in a 

new direction. She reacquired the family 

company, C J Vander Ltd in 2013 and has 

since embarked on hand making unique, 

artist designed jewellery and works from 

gold, silver, diamonds and precious stones. 

CONTACT 

info@kvdpdesign.com 

kvdpdesign.com 


CONTACT 

www.mollywilliams55@gmail.com 

www.facebook.com/textilematters 

@textilematterz 

Molly Williams 

Blog: www.textilematters.com 

MOLLY 

WILLIAMS 

We use audible language to communicate, but in 

some shape or form, we also use body language. 

Felt sculptures communicate the mind and the body 

through fluid, abstract forms. Unbound by defined 

styles they explore the potential of the body expressing 

a personalized vision that leaves interpretation open to 

the observer. 

Molly uses the wet felt method to create figurative 

sculptures that reflect her love of form and movement. 

Her figures are not overtly masculine or feminine as 

her focus is about the exploration of shape, posture 

and the reflected emotion. 


The 

SELECTORS 

Antony Penrose 

50 

Linda Salway 

51 

Ryan Stanier 

52 

Jennifer West 

53 

“THE ARTS MAKE US 

WELL-ROUNDED, 

QUESTIONING, 

LATERAL- 

THINKING 

PEOPLE” 

theguardian.com 


ANTONY 

PENROSE 

Antony Penrose, son of Sir Roland Penrose 

and Lee Miller Penrose, is director of the Lee 

Miller Archive and Penrose Collection at his 

parents’ former home, Farley Farm House, 

Muddles Green, Chiddingly. 

Lee Miller, Roland Penrose and Antony 

moved to Farley Farm House in 1949 and the 

house soon became a meeting place for the 

leading figures in the world of Modern Art; 

Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, Man 

Ray, Echaurren Matta and Antoni Tapies to 

name but a few. 

Works by many of these artists are 

displayed at Farley in a selection that 

regularly changes as items are loaned to 

exhibitions around the world. 

The Sculpture Garden which surrounds the 

house was designed by Roland Penrose and 

has wonderful views of the South Downs. 

Image ‘Antony Penrose, Living Room, Farley Farm House, 

Sussex, England’ by Tony Tree. © Courtesy Lee Miller Archives, 

England 2015. All rights reserved. www.leemiller.co.uk 

CONTACT 

tony@pengroup.demon.co.uk 

www.farleyfarmhouse.co.uk 

Farley Farm House 

Farley Farm House 

Antony Penrose 


LINDA 

SALWAY 

Linda Salway is an arts strategist, project 

manager, workshop leader and drama teacher. 

She has an MA in Arts and Cultural 

Management alongside her teaching 

qualifications and is presently Head of Creative 

Arts Development at Eastbourne College 

where she also teaches drama, has overall 

responsibility for dance and curates the visual 

arts programme for the Birley Centre. She is 

also portfolio holder for Education and Culture 

for the Eastbourne Chamber of Commerce. 

She has worked as a theatre education 

director and young people’s theatre producer. 

She was arts manager for Waverley Borough 

Council from 1997- 2005 and the co-ordinator 

of Arts Partnership Surrey. 

Linda is a Gold Arts Award assessor, a trustee 

of Lewes Live Literature, a board member 

of Creative Future and a member of the 

Community Engagement Steering Group for St 

Wilfrid’s Hospice. She has also been an advisor 

for the Arts Council on young people’s work. 

CONTACT 

Lasalway@eastbourne-college.co.uk 

www.eastbourne-college.co.uk 

Linda Salway 


RYAN 

STANIER 

Ryan Stanier launched The Other 

Art Fair in 2011. It is a place that 

differs from its contemporaries; 

a place for artists to sell work 

directly to both established 

and first time buyers and gain 

exposure to galleries. 

4 years on, there have been 

7 fairs visited by some 40,000 

visitors annually across three 

cities - London, Bristol and 

Sydney and now attracts artists 

that include Tracey Emin, Gavin 

Turk and Polly Morgan. 

In addition Ryan offers advisory 

for a number of private clients 

and well recognised companies. 

CONTACT 

www.theotherartfair.com 

theotherartfair 

theotherartfair 


JENNIFER 

WEST 

Jenny is director of Gallery 

North and founding member of 

the Hailsham Festival of Arts & 

Culture. 

Gallery North is a community 

gallery in the heart of Hailsham. 

Run as a not-for-profit 

organisation, the gallery exhibits 

a wide range of artworks from 

paintings and photography 

to ceramics, printmaking, 

illustration and sculpture. 

Now in its 9th Year, Hailsham 

Festival of Arts & Culture 

encompasses all forms of arts 

including literature, music and 

performance. 

CONTACT 

artgallerynorth@gmail.com 

www.artgallerynorth.co.uk 

Gallery North - Hailsham 

artgallerynorth 

Tel:01323 846938 


FEATURES 

An introduction 

to drawing 

55 

Featured artist: 

Shelley Morrow 

56 

“CREATIVITY TAKES 

COURAGE” 

Henri Matisse 


Introduction to 

DRAWING 

Featured artist 


Drawing is one of the oldest forms of 

human expression, with evidence for 

its existence preceding that of written 

communication. The term drawing is applied to 

works that vary greatly in technique. It has been 

understood in different ways at different times 

and is difficult to define. During the Renaissance 

the term ‘disegno’ implied drawing both as a 

technique to be distinguished from colouring 

and also as the creative idea made visible in the 

preliminary sketch. 

The Shorter Oxford Dictionary defines drawing 

as: ‘the formation of a line by drawing some 

tracing instrument from point to point of a 

surface; representation by lines; delineation as 

distinguished from painting...the arrangement 

of lines which determine form.’ Despite this 

insistence on the formation of line and the 

implied lack of colour, few would deny that a 

work formed by dots or shading or wholly in line 

but in a range of colours is a drawing. 

Drawing is one of the major forms of 

expression within the visual arts and many 

famous artists over the centuries have stressed 

its importance: 

Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) ‘The young 

man should first learn perspective, then the 

proportions of objects. Next, copy work after 

the hand of a good master, to gain the habit of 

drawing parts of the body well; and then to work 

from nature, to confirm the lessons learned.’ 

Michelangelo (1475 - 1564) 

‘Let whoever may have attained to so much as 

to have the power of drawing know that he holds 

a great treasure.’ 

Titian (c.1487/1490 - 1576) 

‘It is not bright colours but good drawing that 

makes figures beautiful.’ 

In a recent Interview with Vincent Mathews and 

John Bird, Jackie Devereux PSGFA, President 

of the Society of Graphic Fine Art (the Drawing 

Society) discussed the situation with regard to 

drawing within the current School curriculum. 

She said “I have felt strongly about this for a long 

time. I think it’s wrong and we should get back 

to basics. Drawing skills should most definitely 

be taught throughout a child’s life. It should be 

regarded as a natural part of one’s development 

- enabling everyone to look, see and interpret - is 

of paramount importance to that development”. 

To read Interview in full please visit www. 

fadmagazine.com. 

As part of this years Autumn Art Fair, PURE 

present a weekend of drawing for all led by 

artist Shelley Morrow. Shelley is a tutor and 

co-founder of Draw Brighton. Draw run events 

across the South East of England. www.drawbrighton.co.uk 


CONTACT 

info@shelleymorrow.co.uk 

www. shelleymorrow.com 

www.draw-brighton.co.uk 


shelleymorrow.14?fref=ts 

@shelleymorro 

uk.linkedin.com/in/ 

shelleymorrow 

SHELLEY 

MORROW 

Shelley is a Brighton based Artist. She 

studied Fine Art at Camberwell School 

of Arts, specialising in sculpture and 

is a co-founder of Draw; running and 

teaching life drawing sessions in the 

centre of Brighton. Much of her work is 

based around the drawings she makes 

at the studio and for the past few years, 

she has been developing these drawings 

using hand embroidery and etchings. 

She likes to take a speedily drawn 

gestural pose and transform this through 

a slower more meticulous planned 

process. Embroidery and etching have 

much to recommend themselves in 

terms of colour, texture, historical and 

contemporary possibilities and Shelley 

employs these mediums in conjunction 

with drawing to underpin her practice. 


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ABOUT 

PURE ARTS GROUP 

AND THE PURE 

ARTS FOUNDATION 

Founded in 2009 by Lesley Samms, PURE 

Arts Group is a marketing and pr agency; 

Internationally renowned for discovering, 

mentoring and supporting talent in 

contemporary art. Passionate about the 

arts, as well as founding PURE Arts Group, 

Lesley also runs Pure Arts Foundation, which 

supports public and charitable art projects, 

mentoring, awards and bursaries. 

PURE is now Internationally recognised as 

a key player in contemporary art; discovering, 

mentoring and supporting established and 

emerging talent. 

To read a full interview with Lesley 

discussing her background, motivation and 

the development of pure please visit http:// 

fadmagazine.com/2015/07/30/showcasepure-arts-group/ 

THE PURE TEAM 

Lesley Samms 

Founder and Managing Director, Pure Arts 

Group & Pure Arts Foundation 

Lesley has a core background in business, 

having spent the early part of her career 

working in Banking in the City of London. A 

career in Marketing and sales followed this, 

working mainly in the Leisure marketplace 

for Coca-Cola and Schweppes. For the past 

20 years she has worked primarily in the 

Contemporary Fine Art marketplace, as a 

Fine Art Photographer, as a Gallery owner 

and more recently as an art consultant, 

professional development practitioner, 

writer and curator. Lesley is Art Editor for 

Aspect County Magazine and is currently 

undertaking a Masters in International Event 

Management at Brighton University. 

Lesley Samms 

Hannah Hayes Westall 

Trustee – Pure Arts Foundation 

Gary Scott - Trustee – Pure Arts Foundation 

Kate Van Der Pump - Creative Consultant 

Louisa Crispin - Creative Consultant 

Mary Beaney – PR & Marketing 

Hildegard Pax - Design & coordination 

Vincent Matthews – Advertising,Technical & 

Newsletter 

Shelley Rose – Technical & coordination 

John Bird – Freelance Writer. 

Full details and contact information for the 

team can be found in the ” Artist’s” section of 

this directory 

CONTACT 

www.pureartsgroup.co.uk 

www.facebook.com/Pure-arts-group-148018228589962/ 

timeline/ 


PURE 

EXHIBITING ARTISTS 


Adele Gibson 

Alison Trask 

Amanda Averillo 

Angela Brittain 

Annie Catford 

Benjamin Hannavy Cousen 


Carole Robson 

Caroline Fraser 

Ceridwen Jane Gray 

Christie Samms 

Clive Riggs 


Dizzy Pragnell 

Edith Pargh Barton 

Erica Sturla 

Felicity Flutter 

Gavin Roweth 

Gill Bridgestock 

Hermione Carline 

Hildegard Pax 

Ian Lan 

Jeremy Bear 

JFK Turner 

Jim Anderson 

Jo Ansell 

John Shanks 

Jonathan Hateley 

Julia Desch 

Julian Sutherland-Beatson 

Kate Schuricht 

Katy Harrison-Taylor 

Kate Van Der Pump 

Leila Godden 

Louisa Crispin 

Lynne Blackburn 

Mary Beaney 

Melvyn Evans 

Mike Leale 

Molly Williams 

Monair Hyman 

Naomi Holdbrook 

Nick Hebditch 

Ninon Ardisson 

Patricia Latham 

Rachel Johnson 

Richard Heys 

Rod McIntosh 

Samuel Paradela 


Shelley Rose 

Sidney Chambers 

Susan Li 

Swati Bhalotia 

Tina Selby 

Vincent Matthews 

Will Taylor 


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fringe & more 

throughout October throughout Battle 

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