Viva Lewes Issue #146 November 2018
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ART<br />
ART & ABOUT<br />
In town this month<br />
Marc Chagall<br />
Martyrs’ Gallery offers a real treat to <strong>Lewes</strong> art<br />
lovers between 10th Nov and 16th Dec: Something<br />
Glowing and Alive, an exhibition featuring<br />
work from three veritable luminaries of twentieth-century<br />
art, Marc Chagall, John Piper and<br />
Graham Sutherland. These works were originally<br />
commissioned by Walter Hussey, former<br />
Dean of Chichester, who also persuaded Chagall<br />
to design one of Chichester Cathedral’s stainedglass<br />
windows. Unmissable.<br />
Marc Chagall<br />
To coincide with the publication of his book<br />
Short’s Sussex, James Trollope has organised<br />
an exhibition of prints by British landscapists<br />
Frank Short and Eric Slater, who both lived<br />
in Seaford between the wars. The show takes<br />
place in the fine space downstairs at <strong>Lewes</strong><br />
House, Nov 7th-14th. We love this image –<br />
Winter Woodland – by Sue Collins. It will be<br />
in the window of Chalk Gallery throughout<br />
their upcoming exhibition, A Winter’s Tale,<br />
which runs<br />
from the<br />
26th. Before<br />
that the unmistakable<br />
watercolours<br />
of Lyndsey<br />
Smith will be<br />
on view.<br />
Sue Collins<br />
Martin Gayford<br />
<strong>Lewes</strong>-based<br />
poet and<br />
painter Martin<br />
Gayford<br />
(not the<br />
Spectator one)<br />
is making<br />
a welcome<br />
return with<br />
his colourful abstract oils (he last exhibited at<br />
the Hop in 2009). The show – Any News from<br />
Belgium – consists of paintings and collages.<br />
Paddock Stable Gallery, Nov 1st-4th. Keizer<br />
Frames have got an interesting exhibition<br />
from 10th-24th. Volker Pajatch paints landscapes,<br />
but will also be exhibiting fish prints,<br />
using the Japanese art form Gyotaku, which<br />
takes the prints from the fish themselves, using<br />
edible sumi ink.<br />
Which just leaves room to mention the latest show at St Anne’s Galleries,<br />
their annual Christmas Show of their stable of artists’ recent<br />
work, including Tom Benjamin, Jane Hansford and Nick Carrick, on<br />
weekends from <strong>November</strong> 3rd till Dec 23rd. Oh, and a brief mention<br />
that St Anne’s former curator, Sarah O’Kane, is exhibiting the off-beat,<br />
Great Masters-inspired work of Charlotte Snook from December 1st,<br />
downstairs at the Needlemakers, at Fisher Street Frames. There’s a<br />
private view on <strong>November</strong> 30th, too. More on that next month.<br />
Charlotte Snook<br />
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